Analysis Of Flight By David Dillard

One day, while Dillard was working in her office, she was distracted by the sound of an airplane cutting through the air. She uses imagery of sound to describe what she witnessed in the fortieth paragraph. Dillard heard the “buzz of an airplane...it rose and fell musically, and it never quit.” This imagery is included in order to bring back the tone of awed appreciation, and to display to the audience that Dillard thinking about Rahm’s performance months after her last encounter with him. In the rest of the paragraph, Dillard uses metaphors to describes Rahm’s movements. When the plane was flying “all over the air…” it looked “like a vine.” The air was like “water…” and “...Rahn was an eel.” She chose to compare him to these things because they are images that everyone knows. Also, they are used in order to convey how effortless Rahm’s movements were; he was at home …show more content…
Dillard writes that if she had “not turned two barrel rolls…” she “might have fancied Rahm felt good up there.” She mentions how “painting...pleasures the senses while you do it,” but “drawing lines with an airplane...tortues the senses.” Dillard includes this shift in her understand in order to display how understanding of Rahm’s struggles evolved. The audience is aware that Dillard spent a large amount of time attempting to understand him. In the forty-fifth paragraph, Dillard includes details that give the reader an insight in Rahm’s mind. As soon as he entered the airplane, he became “the instrument of art and invention,” and would, “paid attention to how his plane and its line looked to the audience against the lighted sky.” When he went into his plane, “he was as featureless as a priest.” Dillard includes these insightful details in order to explain how serious Rahm was to his performance, and to emphasize how he became the art once he strapped in. By doing this, the audience has a deeper understanding of how Rahm