The similarities and differences within a change by Jesse Khaled

With the text “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace, and Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, the reader can pick out key similarities and differences, within the two authors text. Both writings portray the importance of one’s outlook on a situation, and how it can change an outcome completely. Wallace portrays a series of events, that most people can somewhat relate to, the best example is when he states how we react to traffic. We can choose to become enraged by the situation and let it get to us, but if you looked at it differently, the outcome would change, if we knew that the person who just cut us off was going so fast because his son is in need of a doctor, would we still be enraged by it? Of course not, this is a prime example on how choosing to look at a situation differently changes the outcome. Same for the blind wise woman from Morrison’s speech. She didn’t see the kids question, as them questioning her ability, but more as a test for their own morality, showing that they cared so much about proving themselves correct, that they forgot all about the lives of other living things, in this example the bird. The main difference between the two text, is the message both authors are trying to portray, Wallace is making the point that we must look at the world in a different way for our wellbeing, “This is Water” show the biggest flaw with human beings, selfishness, and how we can let it rule out lives. On the other hand Morrison’s text tells us the reason for us to change is to save not only our on morality, but those around us, because we all play a essential part in everyone’s lives around us .