Rhetorical Analysis Of David Foster Wallace's Speech

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I think that David Foster Wallace’s speech was more compelling because it was more engaging. His audience was graduating college students about to enter the world and use the knowledge from their education to navigate themselves. He uses the fish scenario to make a point and make people realize that people must be aware and conscious of their surroundings and reality. To do so, people must exercise control of the way of thinking and it is the knowledge from college experience that will help do so. I also think Wallace’s structure of the essay allows it also to be persuasive. His speech is not as formal and straightforward as Debra Hawhee’s “The unending Conversation”. The audience of the Hawhee’s speech were incoming college freshmen. Due to
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