“This is Water” was a commencement speech delivered by David Foster Wallace to the Kenyon College graduating class of 2005. He was able to make a connection between the basic necessity of water and essentials of making your own decisions. Just like we need water to survive, making your own decisions help you live through life every day. Nowadays, people live under a self-centered mentality and as a result, when something goes wrong, they get angry and infuriated. Their brains are stuck on a “default-setting” that closes off their minds and prevents them from understanding other people’s situations. “This is Water” contains a rhetorical technique that makes you think about your everyday attitude and it states the cold hard truth behind it.
