I Believe In God Dillard Summary

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The story about a god is the strongest part of the books but still not for some people who did not believe in “God.” Actually, people all around the world believes in the different things. Some believe in god, but some are not. Although Dillard makes the strongest part of a god for reader to know and understand it, but it can be the weakest part of her books for some people. For some people who have the religions, they might believe in god, but some religions did not such as Buddhism. You can see from some famous quote from a person who does not believe in god. “For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust …show more content…
Isolation is a good way for her to write the books and to be a good writer. Isolation gives time to Dillard to talk to herself and know the deeply things inside her mind. It is the things that she suggests that good writers should do it. Writers will have time that isolate from outside world, and use this time to talk to the inside world of their mind. However, the writer has to manage with loneliness as well. Human is one of social animals. We have to have society. The writer also has friends, and family. If we can get the benefit from the isolation, it also can create disadvantage to the writer. On the other hand, isolation is not only things that can create a good writer, socialize can do the same thing. From another book of Dillard call For the Time Being, it has one chapter call “China.” China is a chapter that Dillard went to china to see the Terracotta Army in Shaanxi province that is terracotta sculpture armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. At that time, she has a great experience with other writers and get of information to write her book. This story also tells other writers, that the isolation is not one thing that can make the writers get

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