The Chase Annie Dillard Summary
In her narrative, Annie Dillard illustrates the exhilaration gained from the pursuit of glory. The chase begins after kids in a neighborhood hit the windshield of a car with a snowball. The man inside the vehicle opens the door and proceeds to chase them. The breathlessness of the glory comes from the man chasing them through the neighborhood. Dillard’s use of compelling writing techniques emphasizes the way concrete detail, repetition, and parallelism contributes to the breathlessness of the chase. Annie Dillard uses vivid concrete details that describe events throughout the narrative. Dillard describes the physical aspects the girl encountered while being chased by the man. “The air was cold; every breath tore my throat.” Dillard describes