Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Seeing
Seeing by Annie Dillard is definitely a detail driven essay. The author creates good mental pictures for her reader and shows her great love for nature and the world around us. At some points, I found myself unfocused from the reading because of how in depth every little scene was. I believe seeing is a very appropriate name because she is talking about the blind and what their experiences are when they gain their sight. They appriciate and notice every detail that people who have always had their sight often look over. This essay was very long so I did not pick up on a thesis. It is quite a rant but I got the message that we need to observe and not take the small things in life for granted.
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I agree with you when you said that at some points in the reading you became unfocused. I was doing the same thing. There was too much detail for me.
ReplyDeleteI very much agree with you both, I was very unfocused though parts of this essay, at one point i had to put the reading down just to clear my head to refocus at the task. Though it did have great detail and excellent points.
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