From the authors that we have read I relate the most to Annie Dillard. Pilgrim at tinker creek is beautifully written and it doesn’t feel like a chore reading her narrative. The two things I love about Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the way Dillard gives attention to details about the things she sees around the creek and about her experience there. It gives you a new way to look at everything and also it reminds you to look at things more closely. When you take time to look at things more closely then you see things you would have otherwise never seen. It was beautiful how she narrated seeing blood flow in the capillaries of the goldfish and the way she connected that with the flow of water in the creeks. “The red blood cells in the goldfish’s tail streamed and coursed through narrow channels invisible save for glistening threads of thickness in the general translucency. They never wavered or slowed or ceased flowing, like the creek itself; they streamed redly around, up, and on, one by one, more, and more, without end.” Her use of imagery is what made me hard to resist reading all the chapters at once. You never know what she is going to see in the creeks and what is even more exciting is the way she describes the simplest of things that she sees in the creeks.
I like your piece about Dillard’s book. I agree that her use of language is masterful, and it certainly sucks the reader into the book. I think it is good you have cited a specific example from the novel in order to draw attention to the parts of the text that were personally significant. I think your piece overall could benefit from expounding on how the text affected you . You explain this a little, but I think there is potential to employ Dillard’s writing style of cause/effect in order to dig deeper into how her work moved you. Cool stuff overall.