Annie Dillard

Though many pieces of art are beautiful, it is not limited to only this. Art can be horrific, lovely, terrifying, it can be anything someone perceives it as. In The Stunt Pilot, Annie Dillard forms a one-sided bond between a pilot and a member of the audience, through the captivation of her emotions. As the woman watches the plane pirouette towards the ground, she recognizes the pilot’s style as something more than simply flying a plane…

Upon review, I realized that I did not use specific examples of facts and statements. I tried to use statements instead, which did not exactly work. My thesis and paragraph structure and transitions needed work as well. In my thesis I said that Ms. Dillard was trying to convince her readers to “live like weasels”, which I did not properly define. In my revision of the piece, I made sure to make it clearer what I was trying to say within my thesis. By “live like weasels”, I meant to live wild…

us with many needs such as entertainment and food, but are they really here to serve the human race? Many people argue that they are for it is the "circle of life". Animals eat other animals such as in the short story "Living like Weasels" by Annie Dillard. It discussed how weasels prey off of birds, rabbits, and mice. If animals are allowed to prey on other animals, then humans are allowed as well. The counter argument is that we abuse our animals through the farm industries. Meat industries…

Modern American Memoirs edited by Annie Dillard is a series of excerpt from different memoirs wrote by successful writers to tell the readers what was the life like in their childhood. Many of these writers have gone through different struggles to become that they are today. Furthermore, most of them have shared some common tropes in their childhood. One common trope that is shared between James Baldwin and Anne Moody is segregation. Due to the fact both of them are “colored” people, they…

Behind the Scenes of Letters and Words We live in a generation that relies on texting, instant messaging and social media to communicate. None of which require the proper necessities when actually writing but instead consist of abbreviation, misspelled words, lack of punctuation and the list could go on. Writing seems as if it is becoming less and less of a thing as life goes on and technology grows. The thought of writing and reading going extinct one day is a very scary view and something we…

Michael Cunningham’s effective use of language and style reflect and further the opinions he voices within “Specimen Days”. He shares three interrelated stories set in New York City in the past, present and imagined future. It includes three creative takes on Walt Whitman and the stories are bound together by recurring devices. This approach is effective because the audience gets three different takes on Whitman, during three different times, with similar occurrences that bring them all together…

I just read an essay by Roxane Gay that challenged me to read more diversely. There’s an essay by Annie Dillard called “Living Like Weasels” that inspired me to grab life by the balls. There’s an essay by Kiese Layman that made dive back in to an ongoing discussion I have with myself about my own privilege. There’s an essay on place by Dorothy Allison that…

Read the Declaration of Independence WP p. 695. Read WP “On Reading” pp. 20-22. Annie Dillard p. 374. HE: Writing About Literature p. 270-292 Journal # 2: based on one of the WP articles. Journals are multi-paragraph essays that analyze one article and apply outside comparisons, or anecdotes. Give specific evidence from the article.…