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Summary Of David Foster Wallace's Graduation Reality Check

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Graduation Reality Check
This is a summary of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address This is Water to the Kenyon College graduating class. Wallace starts off by telling his audience that “The most obvious IMPORTANT realities are often the ones that are HARDEST to see and talk about”. This is the first of many reality checks he gives to his fellow students. His address is not the typical pomp and circumstance addresses typical heard at any college or university. Wallace draws in the adults from the audience by connecting with them only on a level that the working classes guests and parents would understand. Wallace describes the typical daily routines that most non-college students face every day of their lives. Then he switches gears
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