What does sedaris mean when he writes "understanding" another language is "a small step, nothing more, yet its rewards are intoxicating and deceptive"(para. 28)?

1. canadian → ned land  2. resolving action → denouement3. narrator of twenty thousand leagues under the sea → pierre aronnax  4. novel of manners → social class   5. planned action → plot  6. samuel pepys → diary  7. omniscient; first-person, limited → point of view  8. ivanhoe → historical novel  9. robinson crusoe → novel of incident  10. abstract idea → theme of novel

A, to visit her father at his army camp