Toni Morrison and David Foster Wallace both use
things to relate to what's going with the real world, today. They both use kids
and adults to teach kids of how we view the world today and how it was back
then.
In the “Nobel Lecture”, Toni Morrison mainly talks
about on the way we change our outlook, mostly by language. Like when the kids
asked the blind woman, when they had the bird in their hands, if the bird was
dead or alive. There are many different ways that, that question could’ve meant.
It could’ve meant is the bird actually alive or dead but the woman wouldn’t
have known because she was blind. The question could’ve also meant could
someone tell us, what is real life or real death. With those two thoughts in
mind, it tells you that there is not only one way things can be viewed and just
because you have different opinions, doesn’t mean the other person’s
perspective is wring.
In “This is Water”, David Foster Wallace explains
how adults reenact on having a “long day” of work and having to come home with
more problems. Wallace example shows how most practical adults are quick to
criticize others because of what they have going on in their lives. Just as
Wallace stated just because you frustrated after you get off of work and have
to go to the grocery store and have deal with more people, doesn’t mean they’re
not going through the same thing. People in the world could be going through worse
than what you’re assuming at that moment. We as people have a choice to view
things however we want, but what if for once people viewed things differently? Viewed
things as how we would want us others to view us?
Toni and David both mainly speak about choice but
also how people should think outside the box and not how others usually wouldn’t
think. We ought to control our thoughts but if not, we should turn things
around and picture them as there is something more, than what we/re looking at
or what’s happening at the moment. And that’s what Morrison and Wallace wants
us to do today in this world, to make a change.
I agree with you because Wallace uses real world experiences to show how others treat each other, while Morisson uses kids to tell the old wise lady what she has on her hand making the kids treat her bad just because shes blind. I think that real world experiences is better, like Wallace speech, than Morisson's speech which talks about a book she read a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you on the part about "This Is Water". If people could view things without being the center of the world and saw it for how it really is society as a whole could change. If collectively we viewed situations differently then we as a society would also be viewed differently and seem less self-centered.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you on both of the stories. In "This is Water" when you talked about how we are quick to criticize others when we aren't in the mood after a long day and we do this so often that it's a part of our personality. In Morrison's speech i felt like she played the blind woman and the kids were her critics, people who treated her badly because of her outlook on who she was.
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