Summary Of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim Of Tinker Creek
n Annie Dillard’s book of Pilgrim of Tinker Creek presents many examples of our natural world in repulsive, horrifying, beautiful and wonderful ways.
When you think of horrifying, you think of disgusting, odd and far off events that turn you away from situations that are similar. These situations could put a very dark and gruesome picture into your mind such as this one that Annie Dillard experienced. She explains that “At the moment of some such horrible banquet, I have seen the Wasp, with her prey, seized by the Mantis: the bandit was rifled by another bandit. And here is an awful detail: while the Mantis held her transfixed under the points of the double saw and was already munching her belly, the Wasp continued to lick the honey of her Bee, unable to relinquish the delicious food even amid the terrors of death” (p65). This was disturbing because these creatures were feeding off of each other and then feeding off of another. Although the wasp had advantage over the honey bee, the mantis was on the top of the food chain in this case. In a bugs life it is …show more content…
When you venture outside in our natural environments you get to experience nature in its natural forms. Humans experience animals like these. Dillard explains, “Although it lay in a loose sprawl, all I saw at first was a camouflage pattern of parti-colored splotches confused by the rushing speckles of light in the weeds between us, and by the deep twilight dark of the quarry pond beyond the rock. Then suddenly the form of its head emerged from the confusion: burnished brown, triangular, blunt as a stone ax. Its head and the first four inches of its body rested on airy nothing an inch above the rock. I admired the snake” (p226). While Dillard sits and admires the copperhead in his natural environment she sees every minor detail in this elegant and also furious
When you think of horrifying, you think of disgusting, odd and far off events that turn you away from situations that are similar. These situations could put a very dark and gruesome picture into your mind such as this one that Annie Dillard experienced. She explains that “At the moment of some such horrible banquet, I have seen the Wasp, with her prey, seized by the Mantis: the bandit was rifled by another bandit. And here is an awful detail: while the Mantis held her transfixed under the points of the double saw and was already munching her belly, the Wasp continued to lick the honey of her Bee, unable to relinquish the delicious food even amid the terrors of death” (p65). This was disturbing because these creatures were feeding off of each other and then feeding off of another. Although the wasp had advantage over the honey bee, the mantis was on the top of the food chain in this case. In a bugs life it is …show more content…
When you venture outside in our natural environments you get to experience nature in its natural forms. Humans experience animals like these. Dillard explains, “Although it lay in a loose sprawl, all I saw at first was a camouflage pattern of parti-colored splotches confused by the rushing speckles of light in the weeds between us, and by the deep twilight dark of the quarry pond beyond the rock. Then suddenly the form of its head emerged from the confusion: burnished brown, triangular, blunt as a stone ax. Its head and the first four inches of its body rested on airy nothing an inch above the rock. I admired the snake” (p226). While Dillard sits and admires the copperhead in his natural environment she sees every minor detail in this elegant and also furious