Sunday, August 30, 2015

Compare and Contrast both speeches

In both speeches of “This Is Water” and “Morrison Nobel Lecture”, authors talk about one’s perspective. In “Morrison Nobel Lecture”, the author discussions the young people’s perspective toward life versus a blind old woman’s. While in “This Is Water”, the author points out you view life by your own thoughts and opinions. Both speeches are similar by making a point clear of life being viewed in one’s eyes. “This Is Water” used the grocery store as an example of getting flustered with a grumpy mother. The author pointed out that, one may keep calm because they think of the woman’s issues of why she’ll be yelling at her child while another simply becomes bothers. And in “Morrison Nobel Lecture”, the author writes about a blind woman having her own interruptions and making life her own because she can’t see what everyone else can. The dead bird to young people is a simple dead bird while to the old, blind woman, it is an example of mockery toward her language. These speeches are also different by the way they make their point out. In “Morrison Nobel Lecture”, the author makes her point of perspective out with the use of language from a person with a disability, making it their own way of life. In “This Is Water”, the author differs by using life examples to make their point clear. The author uses the grocery store and a work day frustration as their point of perspective. 

1 comment:

  1. I agree that each of the speeches come from one point of view, I didn’t realize that. Wallace is trying to tell the college graduates that their education is in fact the job of a lifetime just from what he has learned from personal experiences. Also Toni Morrison’s speech relays information that the old blind woman had encountered herself among her lifetime. Both speeches show a different view of life because of the different circumstances they have been in. I don’t see how the dead bird was mocking the old woman’s language, but I do see where you’re coming from when objects or little things can mean something totally different between two different people.

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