A) This is Water by David Foster Wallace is about simple awareness. His commencement speech talks about the things the students should know about the real world. His main three arguments were as follows, students haven’t experienced what day in and day out really are. “But (experiencing day in, day out) hasn’t yet been part of you graduates’ actual life routine, day after week after month after year.” Another point he made was that the exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people. “Given those people’s two different belief templates and two different ways of constructing meaning from experience.” His third point was that you have to look at the bigger picture and that the people around you may have harder, more tedious, and painful lives than you do, and being aware of that was his main argument of his. 

I agree with Wallace when he brought up that it’s really important to consider other people, and what may be going on in their lives. Not to look at it as if you are the center of attention, and if you are in a bad mood, to not act like everyone else is just in your way. I completely agreed with that. Like what if the other person is having an even worse day? A lot of things should be taken into consideration, and people should be more aware of that even when they’re doing something as simple as grocery shopping Wallace explained. 

B) In my DFW Reading Response, I relied quite heavily on pointing terms, such as “that” and simple pronouns like “his.” You don’t notice this until you look specifically for that word, and I didn’t realize how much I used these two pointing terms, there’s definitely a pattern for me in some of my other pieces of writing too. 

C) Wallace brought up how important it is to consider other people, and what may be going on in an individual’s life. I agree when Wallace says, to not look at it as if you are the center of attention, and if you are in a bad mood, to not act like everyone else is just in your way. It’s important to consider what if the other person is having an even worse day? A lot of things should be taken into consideration, and people should be more aware of others even when they’re doing something as simple as grocery shopping.
I’d say yes, it is easier to read now after revising it with help from the book, They Say / I Say.