David Wallace wrote and spoke a commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. David was a writer and a teacher of English. He was born in Ithaca, New York in 1962. David wrote mainly short stories and novels to pass the time that he was here on earth. Mr. Wallace attended Harvard University, University of Arizona, and Amherst College. While attending these colleges, David fought a battle with depression, and would be in and out of school, but between the depression episodes David was a scholar student (Bigrophy.com). In 2008, just three years after giving his commencement speech at Kenyon college in 2005, he committed suicide from his depression. When reading David’s commencement speech, I felt like I was there. He somehow connected with my mind. …show more content…
They get on the topic of if god is real or not, and an argument breaks out with “the intensity of the fourth beer” about whether god is real. (David Wallace Speech). The atheist guy begins to tell a story of something tremendous that happened to him. He was up in the Alaskan wilderness at his camp. He was out and about when he got caught up in a blizzard on his way back to camp. It was getting dark when the atheist realized that he might not make home and there is a possibility that he might freeze to death. Unlike any atheist he bowed his head and prayed to god to help him get through this blizzard or to send help. A little bit later two guys walk upon this man and guide him back to his camp. The guy in the bar now stated that there is no god and that was just a random thing that happened to him. The religious guy on the other hand thinks it was god that saved that man. What I learned from this story is that there is always more than one way to look at things. No matter what you think someone is always going to see it differently, and that it is never bad to bow your head and ask for help from