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Wallace establishes a humorous tone in the first section to convey his argument. “There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys, how's the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, ‘What the hell is water?’” (233) This anecdote introduces the fact the many people don’t understand what is going on around them and why Wallace believes it is important to be conscious of what is happening around you. “This is not a matter of virtue- it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.” (233) Wallace argues that it is hard to get into a state of awareness because humans have their “hard-wired default-setting”. People need to get out of their own self-centered habits and see things in a different point of view. By using a humorous tone, Wallace can effectively get people on his side of the argument.

Wallace then discussed that the most important way to fight the urge of staying in their natural default-setting is to think. Wallace tried to persuade the audience by stressing the importance of exercising control over what that person thinks. Wallace felt it was very important to get the point across that people

In the opening lines of David Foster Wallace’s short story, “Good Old Neon,” the protagonist and narrator Neal describes himself as follows: “My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people” (141). In saying this, Neal sets up a self-aware yet self-diminishing representation of himself. Seemingly, Neal (who is a ghost in “Good Old Neon”) understands his hamartia, or tragic flaw, as inauthenticity. However, a closer reading of Neal’s choice of structure and language in his narration reveals his possession of a fraudulent and insincere characterization. I argue that Neal is purposefully an unreliable narrator and that the reason Neal is fraudulent is to “come across someone who is [his] match and can’t be fooled;” put another way, Neal is testing the insight, or what he refers to as the ‘firepower,’ of the reader (155, 147). Wallace’s reasoning for constructing a fraudulent narrator, then, is to illustrate that, even in death, Neal is incapable of escaping his need to try to create a certain impression of himself.

Although the best reasons for “going to the movies” are to be entertained and eat popcorn, understanding a film is actually quite complex. Movies are not only a reflection of life, they also have the capability of shaping our norms, values, attitudes, and perception of life. Through the media of film, one can find stories of practically anything imaginable and some things unimaginable. Movie-makers use their art to entertain, to promote political agendas, to educate, and to present life as it is, was, or could be. They can present truth, truth as they interpret it, or simply ignore truth altogether. A movie can be a work of fiction, non-fiction, or anything in-between. A film is an artist’s interpretation. What one takes away from a film depends upon how one interprets what has been seen and heard. Understanding film is indeed difficult.

The content of the speech, pertaining to philosophy and ways of thought, is one of my favorite topics to expand on. After hearing this speech a few years ago, I still constantly try to remind myself that I have a choice in what I can think and feel. I be driving down the street and encounter an insanely slow driver and I then start to get upset and angry. As soon as I do this I tell myself “choose to think differently.” I enjoy the stories included in the speech and think they accurately describe a situation of annoyance. Although I am not an adult who has to buy groceries for myself, I think of a time where I have faced individuals that seem to just be holding me up. I also love Wallace’s use of conversational words and phrases and his emotion evoking

The purpose of the speech, as delivered by David Foster Wallace, was to draw the graduates’ attention towards a higher level of processing interactions with others in everyday life. Wallace points out that it is ordinary to get caught up in the “ordinary” and he makes the comparison with a joke about a fish asking another fish what water is. The graduates are called to think beyond what is immediately seen such encounters with rude customers at a crowded grocery store and instead consider that they may have a perfectly reasonable excuse for acting the way that they did. Wallace’s main goal of delivering the speech is so that the graduates may interpret difficult scenarios of everyday life differently than they have ever before even though

Also, Television attacks more the unconsciousness rather than the consciousness. Hamill says that, similarly to drugs, television is a consciousness-altering instrument (64), but this is not true. First, television cannot do more than depictions of sensations. Hamill explains how television can provide several moods and scenarios with the simple touch of a button (64). He says so because he is looking for a proof to support the power over the mind that television is meant to have, but rather this shows how television works on the unconsciousness and how difficult it is to alter the

In these day, we mostly easy to get a message from commercial, tv show and a movie. but back then around 1950's people are hard to get a message . so today I will write about how some author like Arthur Miller and Jonathan Edward share their message through rhetorical appeals to the 1950's audience and how they convey to it.

He uses words such as “unforeseen” and “enormously” to express this shocking decline in the arts and literature. By using compelling diction, he draws in his audience and sets the tone for his argument.

One of these points is the link between television shows and social lives. The feelings we have of forgetting character’s names and plot lines relates to a similar feeling in real life, according to cognitive scientist Richard Gerrig, who says “Being able to keep track of plots and characters is the same as keeping track of our friends’ lives.” Gerrig’s statement also helps Jurgensen’s article by bringing scientific and cultural realms together, and interlinking the psychology of reality with a casual event.

Peter Weir’s 1998 film, ‘The Truman show’ effectively manages to portray the message of audience manipulation both through the internal and external audiences of the show. This essay will be critically analyzing the techniques used to manipulate the audience in ‘The Truman Show”. Firstly, by analyzing the sound techniques, then by analyzing the camera shots used. Finally, by discussing how the symbolism used manages to successfully manipulate the audience’s views. There will now be three critical and analytical arguments supporting the statement that ‘The Truman Show’ manages to effectively manipulate the audience.

That the ability to shirk off all of our initial views and consider what we see to find the truth provides a more wholesome experience. Wallace admits that taking that lifestyle is a difficult one and he himself struggles with it. He claims that there is no way of teaching someone how to challenge themselves and it's a matter of ‘learning how to think’. That we have to adjust our world view in a way that fits the life that we want to be a part of. In other words, it's a constant goal to better

Kolbe Griffith Professor Sanders English 1010, PS5 3 October 2016 Annotative Bibliography Wallace, David Foster. " David Foster Wallace, In His Own Words. " College, Chattanooga State Community. Writing on the River.

    Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.

The preferred reading of Woody Allen’s movie, “Stardust Memories,” appears to be that there is comedy in the midst of our most dramatic and traumatic relationships. Preferred Reading is a term, which Stuart Hall originally uses in relation to television news and current affairs programs but which is often applied to other kinds of text. Readers of a text are guided towards a preferred reading and away from “aberrant decoding” through the use of codes. Preferred reading in movies is the intentions of movie directors who lead audiences to understand theirs movies in the way they devised. In the movie “Stardust Memories ”, Woody