Review Of Annie Dillard's 'American Childhood'
Nature is a place full of mystery waiting to be discovered. The outdoors contains the sky with countless starts at night and the bright sun in the mornings. Nature is filled with crystal watered lakes and lashing waves of blue seas. The green leaves on the trees wonder in the natural world. Three authors by the name Annie Dillard, Mark Twain, and Eudora Welty write about how their interaction with nature and how it influences their character and outlook on life. “The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world. At school I saw searing sight. It turned me to books; it turned me to jelly; it turned me much later, I supposed into an early version of a runaway, scapegrace.” In source A “An American Childhood” Annie Dillard uses anaphora in the first
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Reading as much as she did made her vocabulary extensive, which explains why she’s been such a successful writer. In “American Childhood” Annie Dillard talks about her youth life. In source A she writes about how the moth was too big for the mason jar it was kept inside of. The way she wrote about the creature and it being set free by the teacher into nature refers to her as a teen leaving high school and going off into college. She relates how the moth crawls off down Shayside where it will soon die because it will not be able to crawl much longer, to where people expect her to go off to after college. The way she ties nature and the moth into her life story was incredible. In Source D “Bibliography of Annie Dillard,” Bob Richardson wrote about how often Annie Dillard was outdoors. As a child she rode her bike all over Pittsburgh, ran flying down sidewalks with arms spread wide and broke her nose two mornings in a row sledding belly-down and headfirst and going too fast. She threw a baseball at a strike zone drawn in red on a garage door. Ball playing became a lifelong passion of Annie Dillard. She was also an avid collector of
Reading as much as she did made her vocabulary extensive, which explains why she’s been such a successful writer. In “American Childhood” Annie Dillard talks about her youth life. In source A she writes about how the moth was too big for the mason jar it was kept inside of. The way she wrote about the creature and it being set free by the teacher into nature refers to her as a teen leaving high school and going off into college. She relates how the moth crawls off down Shayside where it will soon die because it will not be able to crawl much longer, to where people expect her to go off to after college. The way she ties nature and the moth into her life story was incredible. In Source D “Bibliography of Annie Dillard,” Bob Richardson wrote about how often Annie Dillard was outdoors. As a child she rode her bike all over Pittsburgh, ran flying down sidewalks with arms spread wide and broke her nose two mornings in a row sledding belly-down and headfirst and going too fast. She threw a baseball at a strike zone drawn in red on a garage door. Ball playing became a lifelong passion of Annie Dillard. She was also an avid collector of