Comparison & Contrasting

The two speeches, "This is Water" by David Wallace and "Noble Lecture" by Toni Morrison, may not have seemed to be alike when you first read them. But when you understand the deeper meaning of the readings you will shorty find out they are similar in many unique ways. The two styles of writing have differences
 in the way the message is presented, but in the messages in itself shows one common moral.

In the beginning of each speech, they gave us a common story, simple yet meaningful, about common topics most could easily relate to. Instead of sticking to the story, as Tony Morrison did throughout the speech, Wallace explains to us the point "the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones hardest to talk about." Wallace shows his audience this story an speaks more of reality, while Morrison sticks to the story using a more fictional scene.

Noble Lecture conveys also the disappointment of the current generation by convincing herself that the language she speaks will eventually die from "..carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem.." This is similar to the message in "This is water" she explains how peoples natural default settings allow everyone to become naturally self-centered with a "constant monologue inside of your own head." With that in mind you see both speaking about how the future will evolve negatively.

 The two authors have there own ways of teaching us the "morals" in ways, Wallace shows a person who is angry and has an apathetic attitude towards his/her life. Everything going on in every ones life is less than her. No one had even attempted to aggravate this person, and she believed her mind was working the way it was supposed to. In Nobel Lecture it shows a older woman, blind but wise,  looks at life in a positive manner. Although the children had came to show she was a fraud, in the end she looked to them as teaching her something as well as them getting a lesson also.

The way they come across the audience plays the biggest role in the difference between the two speeches. Toni Morrison  is speaking to the crowd of people who are attending her receiving of the Nobel Peace award .Wallace seems to be talking to college kids about how life "usually" is.