Dillard & Clark

Work Equals Success Annie Dillard’s essay, “It’s not talent; it’s just work”, uses different techniques to get the attention of the readers. Dillard uses humor and idioms in her writing. She adds these things to help support her main idea, success equals hard work. This ,in turn, impacts her essay greatly. Dillard’s first technique she uses is humor. In the essay she states, “Doing something does not require discipline; it creates its own discipline- with a little help from caffeine.” By saying

In the story The Chase by Annie Dillard, Dillard gives us a memory from her past about a pursuit she was involved with in the winter time as a little girl of seven years old. The purpose of the short story was to give motivation to people about never giving up in life and to always pursue one’s goals. She conveyed the purpose through the use of imagery and diction. These helped support the purpose by giving the audience a clear idea of what’s happening in the story. To start off, she use the technique

grasslands. They can be found in North America, northern South America, Europe, Asia, and north of Africa. Weasels can live up to 10 years. In Annie Dillard’s essay “Living Like Weasels”, she describes her run in with a weasel and relates it to humans. Dillard compares and contrast the way humans and weasels live. She talks about how weasels are free and can live anyway they want. Annie Dillard’s essay shows the difference between human life and the life of a weasel through symbolism in order to state her

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, written by Annie Dillard, is a novel based on the writers curiousness about the mystery of God and the world which surrounds her. She is truly baffled by the thought of God and the way his world seems to be evolving. Dillards novel encompasses two main themes. Her first theme is actually a brilliant question; Dillard wonders how there can be a loving and caring God when he has created such a brutal environment. Her second

John Muir, from “My First Summer in the Sierra” (p.71) Summary of Yosemite John Muir deeply lives in the solitude of now, and integrates a sense of belonging within Yosemite when he writes, “We are now in the mountains and they are in us” (Muir, p. 72). Muir’s detailed, joyous descriptions of the Yosemite, in the mountains, valleys, forests, Yosemite Creek with falling waters, mountain creatures and plants, erupted in his writing as the very breath of his life, that soaked the exquisite sightings

Annie Dillard’s essay “Living Like Weasels” exhibits the mindless, unbiased, and instinctive ways she proposes humans should live by observing a weasel at a nearby pond close to her home. Dillard encounters about a sixty second gaze with a weasel she seems to entirely connect with. In turn, this preludes a rapid sequence of questions and propositions about “living as we should”. Unfortunately, we tend to consume our self with our surroundings and distractions in life, which is not a problem until

Author and poet Annie Dillard uses symbolism and hidden comparisons to a vast extent in her essay “In the Jungle.” Dillard refuses to confine her message to outright speech, but instead leaves the reader to draw their own conclusion. Her message is that the geographical separation of societies has no impact on the shared traits and forms of life that exist. Dillard’s purpose is to portray her experiences in the Ecuadorian jungle. She adopts a positive tone towards environmentalism and nature, rather

spirit. If one does not write from the heart, mankind cannot prevail. Throughout Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance and American Childhood by Annie Dillard, both memoirs recount the events of the writer’s life with universal truths in similar and different ways. Is Faulkner right in stating that writing should be from the heart? Or can

Her mother often lectured against conformity, but Dillard fails to analyze or fully understand them: “Torpid conformity was a kind of sin; it was stupidity itself, the mighty stream against which Mother would never cease to struggle” (Dillard 116). Dillard simply states her mother’s opinion, without any personal input. With only shallow writing, the audience is unable to connect with the author and her

common phrase we have become accustomed to hearing, and a phrase that parallels the meaning of Annie Dillard’s “The Chase”, an excerpt from her autobiography “An American Childhood.” In “The Chase” (1987), Annie Dillard recounts how childhood, no matter how enjoyable, will come to a close. Dillard conveys this by carefully detailing her childhood experience as a tomboy and that “nothing girls did could not compare” (1). Her experience during “the chase” symbolized an end of Dillard's childhood and wishing