Foster Wallace This Is Water Analysis

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Reading Foster Wallace This is Water bring some good points in what is life meaning. The message is clear. At first the author is direct and non sensitive to all audience, the stories when he connect with message he is giving. Coming from a single strong mom in Mexico, in my experience is always be direct not be pamper with emotions and just get over and moved on; sometimes you can even feel alone and mistreated, but was the way my mom knows how to give love, with a “ are you still crying” when I was devastated for not make my presentation at school perfect even if I studied long nights and in my mind was perfect.

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