We Will Never Stop Running
When we put ourselves in a poor position, we are often forced to choose between fight or flight. As a child, what it comes to that instinct; nine times out of 10 we chose flight. In both texts “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard and “Always Running” by Luis Rodriguez, both Dillard and Rodriguez put themselves in this predicament, doing something they should not be doing and answering for it. Rodriguez and Dillard both give you a visual of the day that they will remember for the rest of their lives.
In “An American Childhood”, Dillard starts with the boys in her neighborhood teaching her how to play football and her becoming one of the boys. You get a sense she is somewhat trying to prove herself because she …show more content…
They both have to run and jump over fences to escape from justice. As I stated before, Rodriguez has a clear sign stating that he was not allowed to be on the premises in the night. Dillard knows throwing snowballs at cars are frowned upon because they would hide after throwing. In An American Childhood “Often, of course, we hit our target, but this time, the only time in all of life, the car pulled over and stopped.” Soon after a man from a black Buick gets out of the car and starts running after them, “Its wide black door opened; a man got out of it, running. He didn’t even close the car door.” The same thing happens to Rodriguez after being caught on school grounds after hours, “It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies….”.
Dillard was not amused by the ending to the marathon of her life, “If in that snowy backyard the driver of the black Buick had cut off our heads, Mikey’s and mine, I would have died happy, for nothing has required so much of me since being chased all over Pittsburgh in middle of winter…” She had a was on an adrenaline high from running what she played as her …show more content…
Though Dillard had a great literary text, the beginning of her excerpt about football through me for a loop. When Dillard gets into the part of throwing snowballs, the rest reads like a clip you would see out of a movie. She has the sentences get short as she starts running, which almost makes you feel like you are running too. Rodriguez has some fair imagery and his sentences are longer, but towards the end of the text – when is friend goes through the skylight – you can feel as if you are Rodriguez.
In both texts, Rodriguez and Dillard describe very similar stories of running away as a child. Rodriguez describes a scene from his childhood of going to play basketball on a court after hours which ended with what can only be assumed as a very gruesome injury. Dillard, on the other hand, describes a foot chase she and a friend got into after throwing snowballs at the wrong car. Ironically, in both stories, the author is running from consequences caused by their own
When we put ourselves in a poor position, we are often forced to choose between fight or flight. As a child, what it comes to that instinct; nine times out of 10 we chose flight. In both texts “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard and “Always Running” by Luis Rodriguez, both Dillard and Rodriguez put themselves in this predicament, doing something they should not be doing and answering for it. Rodriguez and Dillard both give you a visual of the day that they will remember for the rest of their lives.
In “An American Childhood”, Dillard starts with the boys in her neighborhood teaching her how to play football and her becoming one of the boys. You get a sense she is somewhat trying to prove herself because she …show more content…
They both have to run and jump over fences to escape from justice. As I stated before, Rodriguez has a clear sign stating that he was not allowed to be on the premises in the night. Dillard knows throwing snowballs at cars are frowned upon because they would hide after throwing. In An American Childhood “Often, of course, we hit our target, but this time, the only time in all of life, the car pulled over and stopped.” Soon after a man from a black Buick gets out of the car and starts running after them, “Its wide black door opened; a man got out of it, running. He didn’t even close the car door.” The same thing happens to Rodriguez after being caught on school grounds after hours, “It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies….”.
Dillard was not amused by the ending to the marathon of her life, “If in that snowy backyard the driver of the black Buick had cut off our heads, Mikey’s and mine, I would have died happy, for nothing has required so much of me since being chased all over Pittsburgh in middle of winter…” She had a was on an adrenaline high from running what she played as her …show more content…
Though Dillard had a great literary text, the beginning of her excerpt about football through me for a loop. When Dillard gets into the part of throwing snowballs, the rest reads like a clip you would see out of a movie. She has the sentences get short as she starts running, which almost makes you feel like you are running too. Rodriguez has some fair imagery and his sentences are longer, but towards the end of the text – when is friend goes through the skylight – you can feel as if you are Rodriguez.
In both texts, Rodriguez and Dillard describe very similar stories of running away as a child. Rodriguez describes a scene from his childhood of going to play basketball on a court after hours which ended with what can only be assumed as a very gruesome injury. Dillard, on the other hand, describes a foot chase she and a friend got into after throwing snowballs at the wrong car. Ironically, in both stories, the author is running from consequences caused by their own