Pathos In David Foster Wallace's This Is Water

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Writer, David Foster Wallace, in his speech “This is Water” implies that the way schools teach kids to think these days is wrong. this is in result of his opinion on how most people think during their normal day. Explaining that most people only look at their lives, they never think about how other people’s days could be going or how they live their lives. He refers to the point that you should not get mad during traffic with a bunch of big SUVs because “It's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs were in horrible driving accidents in the past, and now find driving so terrifying that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy, SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive.” He later reviews his points to try and persuade you to change your way of thinking, maybe to keep you from being selfish and thinking of others. …show more content…

He also points out that when he was a student he “never liked hearing this, and you tend to feel a bit insulted by the claim that you needed anybody to teach you how to think.” To interpertate what he says, he meant that most people believe they know what they are doing when it comes to thinking about something and being told you're thinking wrong or someone trying to teach you how to teach my offend someone thinking that they were calling them ignorant or uneducated. But he expands on his point in order to relate to the students by looking at some of their values and desires in their adult lives and this also pertains to

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