Dillard

Terwilliger Bunts One by Annie Dillard “Terwilliger Bunts One” by Annie Dillard is an amusing, revealing essay in which the speaker, a woman in her twenties or thirties, tells the audience stories about her mother and her mother’s unusual personality. The ultimate purpose of the essay is to show by the mother’s various quirks and rules how her daughter is inspired to be her own person, stand up for the underdog, and to keep people on their toes, and to hopefully pass this lesson on to the audience

American Childhood, Annie Dillard displays the impact of religion on an individual’s development. Although her family immerses themselves in knowledgeable literature, including, “Life on the Mississippi” (6) and “The Field Book of Ponds and Streams”, they maintain a passive relationship with religion (81). Observing a parental disinterest in theology, Dillard diverges from Christian beliefs and instead embraces science. While she sporadically discusses theology, when Dillard does, it occurs in a manner

In "Living like Weasels", author Annie Dillard uses rhetorical devices to convey that life would be better lived solely in a physical capacity, governed by "necessity", executed by instinct. Through Dillard 's use of descriptive imagery to indulge her audience, radical comparisons of nature and civilization, and anecdotal evidence, this concept is ultimately conveyed. Incontrovertibly, one of the first things one may notice upon reading the work, is the use of highly explicit imagery connecting

1-11) Annie Dillard is an American author born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Claiming no religion as her own, she attended Hollins University where she began writing prose and poetry under the guidance of her writing professor, and later husband, R H W Dillard. Her first book, a collection of poems entitled Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, was published in 1974 and details her quest for spiritual knowledge, a reoccurring theme in her works. Her most famous work was published soon after, Pilgrim

In Virginia, there is a place called Tinker’s Creek. Dillard often goes to this creek for experiences with nature. During one of these trips, she has a little snippet of the revelation, which makes her see the beauty and the ugliness of the world together thus giving more meaning to life. In this passage, Dillard uses symbolism, verb choice and similes to explain how she views life with more meaning. She starts by using words like lost, sunk which shows the lack of understanding as she looks towards

Living like Weasels In the essay “Living like Weasels”, the author Annie Dillard wrote about her first encounter after she saw a real wild weasel for the first time in her life. The story began when she went to Hollins Pond which is a remarkable place of shallowness where she likes to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. Dillard traced the motorcycle path in all gratitude through the wild rose up in to high grassy fields and while she was looking down, a weasel caught her eyes attention;

In “Terwilliger Bunts One,” Annie Dillard recounts childhood memories of her mother’s fun-spirited nature and intellectual energy. Throughout her narrative Dillard recalls her mother through the use of many episodic memories beginning by recalling her mother’s profound love of words and the language they make up. Dillard also recounts her mother’s playfulness, the way in which she loved to catch people off guard and continually engaged her family in her spontaneity. Continuing, she recounts her mother’s

In “Terwillinger Bunts One,” Annie Dillard illustrates her childhood life while living with her mother. While spending time with her mother and father, Dillard recalls her father listening to the ball game. When the announcer of the ball game cries with passion, “Terwilliger bunts one!” Dillard’s mother starts repeating the phrase multiple times with passion. Dillard states that her mother often used quirky sayings or different dialect to show that her and her sister did not know everything. Dillard’s

In the essay that I chose “Living like Weasels” the author, Annie Dillard wrote about her encounter after seeing a wild weasel for the first time in her life. The weasel was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon, brown as fruitwood, soft-furred, and alert. His face was fierce, small, pointed as Lizard’s, and with two black eyes. Her idea is that humans can benefit from living as wild and as free as a weasel. Dillard uses comparisons between the life of a wild weasel and the life of humans

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