Question 3

Morrison and Wallace gave very profound speeches that were intentionally made in a way to persuade their audience into believing they were right. Morrison took a stand in her Nobel Prize recognition speech, she deliberated a very passionate speech to persuade our future generations. She spoke about what she loves the most, language, what she believes is slowly dying. She personifies language as "the bird" and portrays herself as the "woman" in her speech. She explains how she is worried of "the language she dreams of" is being mishandled. She believes language is a system and without it we're nothing. And like in her speech the kids are holding the bird. We are the kids, and the language is in our hands to explore and appreciate. In the other hand, Wallace has a much more relaxed tone but yet still very persuading onto what he's trying to get across throughout his commencement speech. Since his audience is a graduating class he sets up his speech in a way that let's them know how the real life is. He uses a reasonable amount of examples to allow his audience to feel a sense of what the "real life is". Leading into him saying we all should believe we are the "center of the world" because in our world we are. We live life in a "default-setting" which only we have control of. If we decide to live the "default-setting" life we will be unhappy. He wants us to go out of our ways no matter what the obstacles of life are. In his perspective life is not easy, nor things get handed to you. You work for what you have and you have to make the best of it while you're living.