David Foster Wallace

Passage: The passage I will be adapting from Shooting Water (Saltzman, 2005) comes about in chapter two when Devyani talks about when she learned to love photography. There will be a few alterations to the story, as I plan on expanding on this sequence. Treatment: Open on Istanbul as we see Devyani Salesman and her father Paul walking down the streets. The father and daughter couple walk together down the dark and dirty streets in complete silence as the world around them is bustling with…

“Twenty of us were there, crowded into that little room, and though I had been to such talks before, I was enchanted.” Bruce Ballenger writes a very well rounded passage about the owner of Mount Desert Oceanarium whose name is David Mills. Ballenger shares with the reader how Mills began the museum of marine life and how he spreads his knowledge to others. The writer uses a specific technique in the essay to pass along his ideas to the reader by adding his own self into the essay. This adds to…

Title 1. Fairy tales tells different story’s and teaches different things about life. Traditional Fairy tales is well it is traditional, it good vs evil. A fairy tale have a simple plot sequence and good character development. “Loppi and Lappi” and “What of this fish would you wish” are different because the character development and the plot very yet; the theme are similar. 2.’Loppi and Lappi” and “Goldfish” are different because the main character in “Goldfish” is well developed and…

The most effective device that Wallace uses is narratives and didactic stories throughout. Wallace uses many stories. At the beginning of the speech, Wallace tells the story about the older fish who swims by the young fish and asks “’Morning, boys. How’s the water?’” and the younger fish end up asking “’What the hell is water?’” (). This story is tied throughout the speech, bringing out the theme and emotions that are important. Besides just this narrative, there are stories about icemen, the…

Realness beneath the layers of cosmetic perception”. Here, DeLillo seems to be speaking passive aggressively to deliver a message to his wife that conveys that it could also happen to her, anyone to be exact. This could also be referencing the negative outcomes that accompany the desensitization of society. In the case of this sentence, it seems that the husband is instilling fear into his wife’s heart just to enjoy seeing her reaction. This somehow explains why people always have an undying…

I watched the Ted talk video, “The fascinating secret lives of giant clams” by Mei Lin Neo. This speech essentially entails information regarding giant clams, such as their basic size or growth status and most importantly how important/essential they are to their aquatic environment/ecosystem. While this speech was well presented and very informative, there are a few points in which Mei Lin Neo falls short on. Starting with her good points first, she was very confident regarding her topic, which…

Life leaves people battered with the obstacles one faces, but such experiences leave us all the wiser for it. In Elizabeth Bishop's “The Fish,” she utilizes the fish to represent how people struggle and get scarred throughout their life, but these barriers give us wisdom and courage to pick ourselves up and face what's ahead. The title of the poem is representative of the crucial nature of its central symbol, the fish while using free verse throughout one large stanza to do so; Bishop has the…

In the story "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" there is a very ambitious young man by the name of Yonatan, who was going around creating a documentary. He knocked on doors asking people what would they if they were granted three wishes by a goldfish, Yonatan went to different people different areas to get different answers. Unfortunately, Yonatan was not getting the answers he wanted, Yonatan was trying to become big in the TV world and he wanted to make this documentary poignant…

I think the majority of people who read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, can relate to a lot of themes and cultures throughout the book, but Hal’s tendencies and idiosyncrasies are especially relatable to a specific group of people. Hal represents a culture of people who are obsessive thinkers and indescribably complex. 
 Even though he is a tennis prodigy and really intelligent, he came across a problem from an unknown source that made him unable to communicate with others. On page 12,…

The Commencement of a Life Time David Foster Wallace addressed the graduating class of Kenyon College in 2005. He stated that “It is the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awakened of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all of the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over “This is water, this is water” (They say, I say 209). He spoke mainly over thought,…