A 1996 Commencement Speech (Four Levels) Flax Golden Tales:
Literal Comprehension This is a commencement speech delivered by Salman Rushdie during graduation day of Bard College graduates students. Rushdie was happy due to two main reasons; firstly, he was accepted by the students for key speaker after rejecting to Jean Kirkpatrick, secondly all of the people were listening to him very interestingly. During the speech, he shared his own experience of graduation day when he graduated from Cambridge University in 1968. In the speech, he shared his bitter experiences as his room was damaged with a bucket of gravy and onion sauce. Though the mistake was not done by himself, he was imposed to pay the fine of the damage. He paid the compensation before the graduation day because without paying it, he was not eligible to take part in the program. There is next evidence also it is about brown shoes. During his graduation day, he was marching with brown shoes due to which he was plucked out and imposed to have black ones. There, Rushdie bowed his he