"This is Water" is an essay written by American Writer David Forster Wallace. The essay covers topics like the difficulty of empathy and the importance of being well-adjusted. The overall chief moral in the story is not to consider factors about life after death, but to consciously be aware and live the life we have before death. The fundamental purpose of this essay is to encourage people to view the world we live in and the people around us with a different non self-centered perspective and take into account other people's issues and hardships.
David develops and enforces his thesis through the implementation of relatable real-life examples and situations that the majority of the working population face nowadays. David also provides a solution to the audience's everyday issues which will ultimately improve and make people's lives less miserable than they are and gives us less of an incentive to "shoot ourselves before the age of 30." David also applies an extended metaphor that runs throughout the entirety of the essay, at the very beginning David introduces a story of three fish and constantly re-assures the audience that he isn't addressing an unimportant issue with no relevance to the audience's real life situations and that they should continue reading to figure out what this essay truly is about. Once we approach the very end of the essay we figure out that the fish are compared to humans and the water around the fish (which the essay was named after) was to resemble life. "This is Water" translates to "this ls life" and this is how life is meant to be we can either learn to cope with it and live cheerful lives or if we refuse we can live miserable lives, it's all up to us to choose how we want to spend the rest of our lives as he states in the essay it's all a matter of choice.
How can literature develop empathy and emotional intelligence? How does literature help us further understand David's theory? Well, Literature further helps us understand David's theory because, most literary works portray real problems we face everyday and by reading literature we expose ourselves to such problems and ultimately become more mindful and apprehensive to other people's situations which might be worse than we think our situations actually are, therefore we will learn to appreciate the lives we had and know that no matter how hard and irritating our lives are there are always people worse off that are still fighting and refuse to give up.
David develops and enforces his thesis through the implementation of relatable real-life examples and situations that the majority of the working population face nowadays. David also provides a solution to the audience's everyday issues which will ultimately improve and make people's lives less miserable than they are and gives us less of an incentive to "shoot ourselves before the age of 30." David also applies an extended metaphor that runs throughout the entirety of the essay, at the very beginning David introduces a story of three fish and constantly re-assures the audience that he isn't addressing an unimportant issue with no relevance to the audience's real life situations and that they should continue reading to figure out what this essay truly is about. Once we approach the very end of the essay we figure out that the fish are compared to humans and the water around the fish (which the essay was named after) was to resemble life. "This is Water" translates to "this ls life" and this is how life is meant to be we can either learn to cope with it and live cheerful lives or if we refuse we can live miserable lives, it's all up to us to choose how we want to spend the rest of our lives as he states in the essay it's all a matter of choice.
How can literature develop empathy and emotional intelligence? How does literature help us further understand David's theory? Well, Literature further helps us understand David's theory because, most literary works portray real problems we face everyday and by reading literature we expose ourselves to such problems and ultimately become more mindful and apprehensive to other people's situations which might be worse than we think our situations actually are, therefore we will learn to appreciate the lives we had and know that no matter how hard and irritating our lives are there are always people worse off that are still fighting and refuse to give up.
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