Annie Dillard

The essay “Living Like Weasels” written by Annie Dillard exemplifies her reaction with a weasel that causes her to change her perspective on life as a whole. Dillard goes back in time to about a week ago to where she has an unexpected encounter with a weasel. She further goes onto discuss facts about weasels and how they always act upon their instincts. Dillard believes humans and weasels live two different lives through their brain use; this is best explained through the quotation, “She explores

How much do gender roles mean to you? In the story, The Chase by Annie Dillard, a young girl, Annie, grows up in a town where being a girl didn’t affect how she grew up. When Annie was a child she played football, baseball and threw snowballs with the boys. So as you can see being a girl in Annie’s neighborhood didn’t affect her, but as everyone grows up, we all realize that gender roles really do matter. We all probably grew up with boys and girls, but all places were different. One might have grown

Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1945, Annie Dillard is best known for her narrative essays. An American Child is a narrative about Annie, and how she was taught to be her own person. Her mother, who seemed crazy throughout the text, showed Annie that it is okay to be different. An individual who is different makes one their true self. A person should not follow another for attention, popularity, or to fit in. Being your own person is what makes a one unique. Personally, this text is very important

Expectations Drive Perceptions Annie Dillard, in her essay, “Seeing,” describes how each individual sees and perceives differently. Dillard explains how a certain individual may see something completely different than another. Each and every individual perceives situations and views in their own way, depending on their expectations, their backgrounds, their experiences, and their attitudes. When an individual expects to see something, typically that is what they see. Because they are generally focused

passages seem to have found their magnificence and were taken by storm when writing their excerpts. John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both worked graciously to achieve success in their writing. These authors have written wonderful paragraphs filled with rhetorical devices that are both the same and vastly different. In contrast, John James Audubon’s passage was longer than Annie Dillard's. Contributing to that is a backstory that was also different to Dillard’s. He wrote, “In the autumn of 1813,

eclipse? I know I would, too. A solar eclipse only happens once in a lifetime. If you ever get the chance, get some eclipse glasses and go watch it! In Annie Dillard’s text “Excerpt from ‘Total Eclipse’”, she explains all about the solar eclipse and what it looks like. She uses a bunch of imagery to describe her awe of the eclipse. Annie Dillard uses a lot of imagery in her text. There are a bunch of examples that will take up the whole page. I don’t want it to be boring, so I’ll just list a few

long as they find joy within themselves. Annie Dillard explains her life from ages five to high school. In the book she indicates the pressure, and hardships of getting older, but always manages to stay positive. Dillard tells the readers that she got involved in some bad decisions, but eventually came to reality, and knew she needed to change the direction in which she was headed. She uses many rhetorical device to make her work better. For example, Dillard uses a lot of personification. Personification

In “Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard, I believe “The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice,” is one of the core ideas discussed in the essay. This made me think about humans’ current situation, as compared to the weasel’s day-to-day life of acquiring necessities. Although Annie Dillard speaks towards living in necessity and against choice, I believe our so-called “choice” came from humans’ past achievements, innovations in technology, and development in thought. Humans weren’t born

You can find artist drawing them, scientists observing them, and poets writing about them. Sometimes these things overlap and meet one another. John James Audubon not only studied birds for a living, but also drew them for the sake of science. Annie Dillard illustrates a flock of birds flowing overheard with her words, while Audubon takes a more technical approach. Even though they experienced the same encounter, their backgrounds forced them to take different perspectives while talking about birds

what they do can be much unexpected at times. Two authors wrote about their experiences with birds for the first time. These two authors are John James Audubon and Annie Dillard. Both passages are about birds, but the feelings expressed are different. Audubon writes about birds in a sense that he’ll only be looking and observing them. Dillard writes about birds in way that she cares for them and think they are a part of her life. John James Audubon is more of a scientist. He is only watching the birds