Compare and Contast

I started out with reading the "This is Water" essay and I was pleasantly surprised. I found the essay to be very relatable and it really put things into prospective for me. He made me realize that I myself and much more self centered then I ever believed. He talks about your self-default in a way that makes it seem bad and I found my self feeling guilty afterwards but I believe that a self- default is part of life. There isn't one person in this world that loves everything about everyone, and everyone has their own life problems and their own ways of dealing with them.  He also brings to point that we do without thought, going with what the world says is right, other than stoping to think what is actually the right and just thing to do.

When i started reading the "Noble Lecture" I found it to be very much more difficult to understan and i found my self reading paragraphs over and over again. This lecture was said in a way different then the first passage and it was much harder for me to comprehend the meaning. As I continued to read more in depth into the essay i realized that Morrison was using the bird and the old woman to represent language. Her reply to the young boys demonstrates how we need to use our words wisely because how you speak is a reflection of who you are. 

At first when i finished reading each passage I was very confused and could not find out how they were related in any way. After more thought and going over my notes I think I found in what way these two passages are alike and different. These two stories tie together by both pointing out that what you say and what you think is a reflection of you and how you live your life. They are different in one way by the generation that they are speaking to. For example it was hard for me to understand Morrisons passage because she was speaking to and older generation that attended the nobel peace prize, where as Wallace was speaking directly to my generation.