We can live any way we want. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience--even of silence--by choice” (Dillard 16). This shows us how humans have free will, able to do what they want, just as weasels can. “The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should” (Dillard 14). Weasels and humans don’t go through the same decision-making process, yet the human, as said by Dillard, states that they’d rather live by their own mindful way, just as weasels do; hence, the title: “Living Like Weasels.” All in all, we can examine and analyze the weasel’s wild and fierce behavior, making its straightforward decisions by necessity, yet, in the end, “Living Like Weasels,” is the notion of living the way chosen as weasels
We can live any way we want. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience--even of silence--by choice” (Dillard 16). This shows us how humans have free will, able to do what they want, just as weasels can. “The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should” (Dillard 14). Weasels and humans don’t go through the same decision-making process, yet the human, as said by Dillard, states that they’d rather live by their own mindful way, just as weasels do; hence, the title: “Living Like Weasels.” All in all, we can examine and analyze the weasel’s wild and fierce behavior, making its straightforward decisions by necessity, yet, in the end, “Living Like Weasels,” is the notion of living the way chosen as weasels