"This is Water" and "Morrison Nobel Lecture" Comparison

In comparing “This is Water” and “Morrison Nobel Lecture” there were many similarities and differences. Both speeches talk about being responsible for your own actions and thoughts. In the “Morrison Nobel Lecture”, Morrison is talking about how the children just asked the wise blind old woman if the bird in their hands was dead or alive and the old woman tells them that whether the bird is alive or dead it is there responsible for what has happened to it or what will happen to it. Wallace, the author of “This is Water”, says that people need to learn how to exercise control over what they think about because they are responsible for how they think. Morrison and Wallace also agree that how you think and what you say can change things in your life. Morrison mentions that when that when a language dies that it is because the people who use it. Wallace says that changing our thoughts to not think about the “petty frustrating crap”, would make life more enjoyable. Morrison and Wallace disagree when it comes to education. Morrison says that sometimes the education that is given is not education at all. Wallace says that education gives you the knowledge to pay attention and have awareness of what is going on.