Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Two Wise Authors, One Serious Subject

If authors Toni Morrison and David Wallace were to have a conversation, I believe that they would sit and talk for hours on how society has degraded its moral standards and has jumped into another form of slavery without realizing. They would share thoughts on how the two different subjects they each addressed to their audiences in their speeches, are a severe cause of the immorality and lack of knowledge in people in this generation. Morrison would probably explain that the moral of her story was that although the blind lady in her story was a slave, she was more intellect than people nowadays, because back then there was no media to brainwash or distract a person. Her Noble Lecture was a story of a blind lady born into slavery and how she was wiser than an average person, despite her disability. She is confronted by kids making a mockery of her by asking if the bird which they have in their hands is alive? She can't see the bird, as she is blind of course, but she uses it to deliver a counterpunch to the oppressor by viewing the bird as a form of "language". "I don't know, she says. I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands", in other words that they are responsible for picking up such horrible habit of oppressive language.
David Wallace would probably agree with Toni Morrison's views of how people have picked up oppressive language that has created a limit to our knowledge and creating violence through out the world. He would probably talk to Morrison about how his subject relates to hers. How people have been brain washed in this generation to be self centered and not only lack a voice, but awareness also. He would probably explain how he used a repetitive cadence in his speech by using self-conscious words such as my and me, so that the listener could notice how hypnotizing those words are and how that's our default way of thinking. Sometimes we get caught up in our own world and start to get a pessimistic view of life within time. I think that David Wallace would explain to her how the two fish in his story were too worried abut the things going on in their world that they don't make time to say answer a question from an older fish who had just passed by asking how the water was. Instead of answering the fish are dazed and confused trying to remember what water, knowing that its right in front of their face and without it they can't live. In other words people tend to forget to just calm down and breathe, instead we all get stressed out over little things in "my world" making us a hateful, self-centered, and pessimistic person when in reality there are other people going through worse  around the world. Morrison would probably agree on how we must stop having a self centered mindset as a society because we are only holding people back from knowledge in our future generations.

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