David Trevino

08/30/15

2) Compare and Contrast 

           Both of these stories have similarities and differences. This is Water is more of a essay to make people think about re-evaluating their thought process whereas Morrison's lecture speech is to get the crowd to understand that language is a beautiful thing and to re-evaluate the way it is used. For similarities though, they both do ask you to rethink the way your life is lived. 

           These two stories are able to be compared in the way that they ask you to change your thought process. For example in This is Water, he wants you to rethink your self centered way of life because other people might have problems too. Like the guy who is in a rush and is cutting people off on the highway, maybe he has has a injured child and needs to get to the hospital. In Morrison's speech she asks you to rethink the way you use language in your life by showing a blind woman who only has language to help her navigate through the worlds challenges is faced with disproving young children. The way they also use young people to get there point though is also similar. For instance in Morrisons's speech she uses young people to be kind of naive and unwise and in This is water the young people(fish) are shown that they are also naive in the fact they are unaware of there surroundings. 

             They also differ in ways too. In This is Water he challenges the reader to face a new way of thinking which is to not live in your default way of living. To Wallace the default way of living is be aware of only your self or not being socially aware. When Wallace refers to being socially aware he is talking about putting your self in others shoe and that not everything revolves around your self. In Morrison's speech she challenges the reader to understand the importance of language and how it is used. She uses the blind old woman and young people for an example in how important language is. 

               These two stories are simmilar in ways, that they challenge you too re-evaluate your normal lifestyles and they differ in what needs to be changed.