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An American Childhood Annie Dillard Summary

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In the essay titled "An American Childhood" the author, Annie Dillard, describes her mother using various stories from her childhood. These stories not once use physical characteristics such as the color of her eyes, or the texture of her hair. Instead Annie uses descriptions such as "career of anarchism" (paragraph 20, line 2) when the author was trying to describe the way her mother raised them. Without these physical descriptions she continues using various stories and methods to show who her mother really was.

Throughout the scenes portrayed in "An American Childhood" Annie Dillard shows us that you don't need to know what a person looks like on the outside to know who they are. By writing in such a way I believe that she was trying to

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