how the purpose and audience of these two different speeches is reflected in how they are written.

Most people have a shared experience of having a wise old folk from which they’ve learned many life lessons; David Foster Wallace presented this notion with a story of fish, Toni Morrison presented this with a tale of a blind woman. Both of these essays were speeches intended for two different audiences and occasions, and yet even with overlapping similarities a reader can see the purpose and intended audience reflected in the manner of which these were written. Nobel Lecture is written in such a way that it only needs to follow one tale to portray the effects of language on the world, each meaningful line this wise old blind woman says marks a point in language as a whole, teaching these young people who originally came to “disprove her clairvoyance” about speech and inner trust. The bird becomes metaphorical when it is revealed that the young people have brought no physical bird in their hand and it is her we travel further into understanding that their perspective is shortsighted compared to the old blind black woman as she can finally trust them with this nonexistent bird, that these kids wouldn’t kill a bird to prove a point of an ill motive. While Wallace was written in such a broad manner that students could follow, multiple metaphors broadcasting the meaning to one’s life and how to maintain life in such a world. He is obviously more of a teacher teaching students to go into the “real world” with empathy of others around them before they grow up to be self-absorbed while Morrison is more teaching those already grown and maybe already self-absorbed adults to share perspectives with one another to learn together.