Both Anne Dillard and Gordon Grice develop a unique perspective on life based on their observations of nature in their essays Living Like Weasels and The Black Widow. In Living Like Weasels, Dillard meditates on the value and necessity of instinct and tenacity in human life. In The Most Dangerous Game, the author uses imagery, setting, and characterization to suggest that instinct is better than reasoning. (Q8) What comparisons does Dillard make to describe the weasel in paragraph 8? of the human and man-made in paragraphs 5 and 6. In your journal, describe how that image contributes to your understanding of her overall message.Day Four: Instructional Exemplar for Dillards Living Like Weasels
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Teacher asks the class to discuss a set of text-dependent questions and to complete their final journal entry
Teacher leads a discussion on students journal entries
Text Passage under DiscussionDirections for Teachers/Guiding Questions For Students1 A weasel is wild. I could very calmly go wild. In paragraph 15, Dillard imagines going "out of your ever-loving mind and back to your careless senses." The mystifying comparison between the daunting fear of nature and its impeccable beauty is in fact Olivers purpose., Nature captivates any human by its sheer beauty, however others may not see its beauty, rather its unnerving side. She concludes the piece wanting to learn the necessity of living by instinct in the same way the weasel does: aware of the weasels calling, yielding to it, and living by it. Dillard endures great thought on this quick encounter, reflecting upon every possible meaning about the weasels sudden flee, but maybe her life would be simpler and less thought provoking if she were to act instinctively, and flee from things she didnt fully comprehend. Honestly it is a good thing we have uniqueness because we would all be doing the exact same thing and we need different people that can show us it is okay, without them we would all be thinking the same., Mark Twains satire consistently addresses the shortcomings of man, as seen in both his commentary on the hypocrisy of slavery within The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the juxtaposition of humans with primal animals within The Damned Human Race. By taking characteristics generally considered to be superior aspects of humans, such as patriotism, religion and reason, and revealing inferiorities instead, Twain satirizes humans assumption of superiority based solely on augmented intellectual capabilities. Students should recognize that the questions are a way to trail off or to make things seem inconclusive. The weasel mentioned in the piece is able to live their life happily and feel fulfilled. Students may also choose to describe the choice humans have to latch on to the life they choose and how Dillard symbolically represents that choice. (69) The tone throughout her personal note sends out feelings of regret which enforces a connection. She is one of the few characters who can be identified through several viewpoints. Hollins Pond is also called Murray's Pond; it covers two acres of bottomland near Tinker Creek with six inches of water and six thousand lily pads. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedienceeven of silenceby choice. 2. (Q7) Dillard is careful to place these opposing descriptions (of the natural and man made) side-by-side. One about the vigorous natural world; the other about human relationships. Advising a friend. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles. ! Through Dillard's use of descriptive imagery, indulging her audience, radical comparisons of nature and civilization and anecdotal evidence, this concept is ultimately conveyed. Stunn. She feared without the bold approach of grim situations and ridiculous characters, her audience would miss her true messages which she felt vitally needed to be understood. In this essay, I will demonstrate Strayeds intended audience, situation, claim, purpose, and her the rhetorical appeals she made in order to demonstrate what encourage her reader to finish this book in one sitting or throw this book away., Annie uses consciousness and mindfulness to develop her essay. He was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon, brown as fruitwood, soft-furred, alert. Twisted
Decoration that hangs from a necklace
Indifference
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Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. 6). Asking students to listen to Living Like Weasels exposes them a second time to the rhythms and meaning of Dillards language before they begin their own close reading of the passage. What is the effect of using this many comparisons instead of one or two? Time and events are merely poured, unremarked, and ingested directly, like blood pulsed into my gut through a jugular vein. The author attacks Marco Rubio by making fun of him and his qualifications to be president. We love the juxtaposition of clean lines and organic curves in this armchair. What is the focus of her observations? Then it took me past that place to somewhere I wasnt human at all, (195). It emptied our lungs. thin as a curve a muscled ribbon
brown as fruitwood his face was fierce, small and pointed as a lizards
he would have made a good arrowhead
This analysis sets up a later question on similes and metaphors and helps to establish a tone of close reading for the day. Read the passage out loud to the class as students follow along in the text. A weasel lives its life the way it was created to, not questioning his motives, simply striking when the time is right. Introduce the passage and students read independently. Dillard then moves on to tell about her first encounter seeing a weasel. Reading opens the doors through which she eagerly steps, her curiosity prompting her to endless discoveries in books., Annie Dillard is opposed to writing personally because she feels that one may be too caught in themselves The danger is that youll get lost in the contemplation of your wonderful self When Dillard writes, she wants the reader to connect with the meaning of her passage rather than writing a hidden meaning. In the book The Butcher's Tale a murder in Konitz of a christian boy sparked speculation and quickly led to a whirlwind of controversy and accusations from neighbors against their Jewish neighbors. The cruel but alluring diction is done to illustrate Dillards fascination with the weasels willingness to cease from existence because of their commitment to its choices and lifestyle. Have you ever wonder why it is that a certain book caught your attention? 17 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. But bat sonar, though clearly a form of perception, is not similar in its operation to any sense that we possess, and there is no reason to suppose that it is subjectively like anything we can experience or imagine. Writing Task: Students will paraphrase different sentences and sections of Dillards text, complete a series of journal entries, and then write an informative essay detailing why the author chose the title, Living Like Weasels. Using academic diction, Rifkin develops his main idea with evidence such as Caledonian crows being able to make tools to complete a task. On a figurative level, she seems to imply that one can see more by caring less. It was also a bright blow to the brain, or a sudden beating of brains, with all the charge and intimate grate of rubbed balloons. Have students identify the use of alliteration. Other animal species only have instinct, thus making them less smart. These man made creatures are living but not living, thinking but not thinking. Some books we loved and even reread many times, and others - well lets just say did not even finish. Teachers can find the essay by using the following citation: "Living Like Weasels" from Teaching a Stone to Talk, published by HarperCollins (1998, 2008, or 2013 editions), pages 65-71. Print., Annie Dillard ' Living Like Weasels" Summary and Response. I wonder if Dillard is conscious of this contradiction. I cannot perform it either by imagining additions to my present experience, or by imagining segments gradually subtracted from it, or by imagining some combination of additions, subtractions, and modifications (The Philosophical Review, Vol. . 17 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ! Appendix A: Extension Readings
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
I caught a tremendous fishand held him beside the boathalf out of water, with my HYPERLINK "http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish/"hookfast in a corner of his mouth.He didn't fight.He hadn't fought at all.He hung a grunting weight,battered and venerableand homely. The driver had the fawns life in his hands, and instead of sparing its life, he/she acted out of their humane and moral codes by killing the fawn. Asking students to listen to Living Like Weasels exposes them to the rhythms and meaning of Dillards language before they begin their own close reading of the passage. (LogOut/ I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. "Obedient to instinct". PigeonEye ignored them, an unshattered defiance and determination to serve her clan burning within her. 8 Weasel! In summary, the author imposes that with weasels, much more freedom is granted through instinctual living, rather than as humans, who live with choices. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. On the other hand, On a Hill Far Away focuses more on the issue of conscious choice: To let choice impact you or ignore it. The foundation has crumbled socially, politically, and economically. 1 See answer lavanyaande Advertisement 9 The weasel was stunned into stillness as he was emerging from beneath an enormous shaggy wild rose bush four feet away. These birds were given the task of grabbing meat out of a tube with a choice of two tools, a hooked wire and a straight wire. -Juxtaposition is used by Dillard in "Living like weasels to compare constructed and natural world where she says that the natural world is pure and dignified.Juxtaposition is a concept where two images or two effects are placed side to side of each other. At times, the questions themselves may focus on academic vocabulary. The water lilies have blossomed and spread to a green horizontal plane that is terra firma to plodding blackbirds, and tremulous ceiling to black leeches, crayfish, and carp. Other than giving the brief definitions offered to words students would likely not be able to define from context (underlined in the text), avoid giving any background context or instructional guidance at the outset of the lesson while students are reading the text silently. It is critical to cultivating independence and creating a culture of close reading that students initially grapple with rich texts like Dillards novel without the aid of prefatory material, extensive notes, or even teacher explanations. Through her vivid and truly descriptive imagery, one may see emphasize and glorification to the way of life these little creatures live. Read the passage out loud to the class as students follow along in the text. Vocabulary Task: Most of the meanings of words in this selection can be discovered from careful reading of the context in which they appear. I would like to have seen that eagle from the air a few weeks or months before he was shot: was the whole weasel still attached to his feathered throat, a fur pendant? At other times, particularly with abstract words, teachers will need to spend more time explaining and discussing them. The appearance of her voice at this juncture foreshadows how Dillard will move later in the essay from factual descriptions to speculative observations (and finally to admonition). Sometimes he lives in his den for two days without leaving. ! I agree that the fence builds both a literal and metaphorical barrier between Dillard and the strange family. We never fully live our lives because we are too caught up with avoiding risks. (Q1) What features of a weasels existence make it wild? Reading Task: Rereading is deliberately built into the instructional unit. Accurate and skillful modeling of the reading provides students who may be dysfluent with accurate pronunciations and syntactic patterns of English. 4 Twenty minutes from my house, through the woods by the quarry and across the highway, is Hollins Pond, a remarkable piece of shallowness, where I like to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. What is the focus of her observations? A close analysis of this passage will examine how Dillard moves from literal to figurative descriptions of the impact of seeing the weasel and being stunned into stillness. Their lack of care is what lead them to be so ruthless many times throughout the novel. $d a$gd>: d gd>: #
gd>: m$ d gd>: m$ ! While many questions addressing important aspects of the text double as questions about syntax, students should receive regular supported practice in deciphering complex sentences. I should have gone for the throat. : Annie Dillards Teaching a Stone toTalk, Annie Dillards Living Like Weasels and On a Hill FarAway, Tempo, rhythm, and pacing in TGM Scene 6 (Scene 7 postbelow), Characterization via Relationships in TGM Scenes4-5. If teachers assign this essay for homework, they could have a writing workshop the following day, where students provide feedback to their classmates regarding their essay. At times, the questions themselves may focus on academic vocabulary. However, I can definitely see the connection after reading your blogpost. In Annie Dillard's essay, Living Like Weasels, Dillard uses stylistic writing to make her story more universally understandable, starting from her initial encounter the with a weasel and the life lesson she took out of the encounter. 1. The way that everyday. (Q19) Dillard provides a plot summary early and efficiently in paragraph 3 (I have been reading about) and returns to the visions of the weasel in paragraph 7. Since it was her first encounter with such a mysterious creature, Dillard was obviously frustrated about her missedchance to snatch the weasel (69). The comparison of living breathing animals to inanimate objects suggest that the animals are the equivalent of an object in the current state they are in as they are so lifeless and dead, they can be mistaken for the respective things listed thus reinforcing the point that the animals are, "Living like Weasels" is a short essay, which describes Dillard's adventures in watching a weasel. I agree that Dillard seems to be following her instinct when talking to the young boy. Teachers should engage in a close examination of such sentences to help students discover how they are built and how they convey meaning. To display the idea of good and evil side by side Larson uses extreme syntax. Living Like Weasles Annie Dillard Short-story from Annie Dillard's 1982 book, "Teaching a Stone to Talk." The text was written focusing on descriptive imagery and diction. 3 I have been reading about weasels because I saw one last week. Then I cut down through the woods to the mossy fallen tree where I sit. [Reading intervening paragraphs.] Once students find this section (I would like to have seen that eagle from the air), they can be led in a discussion of the markedly different tone it sets, as well as identifying Dillards concerns (not the callous death of the eagle, but imagining different outcomes regarding what happened to the weasel attached to the eagles neck). Lives in a den for two days. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the tenderest and live spot and plug into that pulse. ! Teachers can use discussions to model and reinforce how to learn vocabulary from contextual clues, and students must be held accountable for engaging in this practice. Identity Theme in "Living Like Weasels" Anonymous College. Dillard portrays her disagreement with such notion by using story telling techniques to enchant and then preach the lessons she herself learns from nature. Whatever avenue students choose, they must cite three pieces of textual evidence and clearly explain the connection between their evidence and how this supports their ideas on the essays title. In the book, Wild, the author Cheryl Strayed made very interesting rhetorical appeals that both hurt and benefit her effectiveness to relate with the reader. What instances in the text show a display of weasels being "obedient to instinct"? But actually, the weasel simply froze out of fear of being killed or caught, and feeling the current of instinctvanished under the wild rose (68). She wrote during The Modern literary period and through common speech and ordinary settings, OConnor presented comically unrealistic circumstances in hope of somehow portraying her concerns (1-2)., Placing two sharply contrasting paragraphs next to each other exemplifies the personification; after reading the first paragraph, simply didactic in style, the second paragraph bursts with imagery and gives the life to the swamp that the first paragraph failed in displaying. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2010. There was just a dot of chin, maybe two brown hairs' worth, and then the pure white fur began that spread down his underside. The teacher should be sure to highlight specific examples from the text if students overlook them:
sleeps in his underground den
he lives in his den for two days
he stalks
dragging the carcasses home
Obedient to instinct
he bites his prey
(Q2) What instances in the text show a display of weasels being obedient to instinct? a 55 mph highway at one end. two lovers, or deadly enemies very calmly go wild
the perfect freedom of single necessity
Examining how Dillard writes also serves the function of exploring the central paradox of the essaychoosing a life of necessity, or in Dillards particular case, reflectively writing about being inspired by the unreflective life of a weasel living by its instincts. He examined the eagle and found the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his throat. At times, this is all the support these words need. The goal is to foster student confidence when encountering complex text and to reinforce the skills they have acquired regarding how to build and extend their understanding of a text. By talking about how others see things differently from other in society . Sarah and David Skwire. That practice will in turn support students ability to unpack meaning from syntactically complex sentences they encounter in future reading. They both focus on the natural world and human living. There is one anomaly to the sea otter's widespread recovery. ! He had two black eyes I didn't see, any more than you see a window. From the picture that she has developed inside the readers head Wright hopes for them to get a better understanding and a greater concern for the consequences that follow a lack of environmental attention. (Q5) What features of Hollins Pond does Dillard mention? The man could in no way pry the tiny weasel off, and he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label. What is the effect of using questions rather than declarations at this point in the essay? In Living like Weasels, Annie Dillard, through an encounter with a weasel, explores the contrast between human reason and animal instinct. Why does she choose figurative language to do this? This gives students another encounter with the text, reinforces the use of textual evidence, and helps develop fluency. That is, I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular--shall I suck warm blood, hold my tail high, walk with my footprints precisely over the prints of my hands?--but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical sense and the dignity of living without bias or motive. The essays seem similar on the surface but use different types of analogies and examples to relate the two topics. The movie Beasts of the Southern Wild released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin and the book , Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Hurston published in 1937 are both natural disasters. The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. It will not help to try to imagine that one has webbing on one's arms, which enables one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflected high-frequency sound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feet in an attic. Staffords poem, Traveling through the dark similarly recalls that the driver knew the doe had a living fawn inside of her, yet still pushed the doe off the cliff, killing the unborn fawn. The eagle and the weasel must have gotten into one of these battles in which the weasel died still clinging onto the neck of the eagle., Staddon, John. The eagle and the weasel must have gotten into one of these battles in which the weasel died still clinging onto the neck of the eagle., Marco Rubio, a frothy focused-grouped concoction whose main qualifications to be president consists of a nice smile and an easy wit, has been mocking Trump as a con man. This is an Ad Hominem within an Ad hominem. This is yielding, not fighting. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should. In Annie Dillard's essay, "Living Like Weasels", she reminisces on her encounter with a weasel, and even though the weasel was a mere animal, it invoked life altering thoughts from within the author. As much as she would like to stay, it was her understanding that she belonged to a different world, just as the weasel belonged to another vastly different world, which caused her to leave without second thought. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . In the short story "Living Like Weasels" authored by Annie Dillard, the role of a small, furry, brown-colored rodent's life develops an extreme significance as the story progresses. The group itself, In Living like Weasels, Annie Dillard uses numerous metaphors and similes to describe weasels in the wild. ! What was the purpose of Dillard coming to Hollins Pond? And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will. At what point does the author start speaking about herself? Perhaps, people who try to dwell on the incomprehensible and the choices they have to make will end up being oblivious to their one necessity: survival. he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label
a man shot an eagleand found the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his throat
(Q3) At what point does the author start speaking about herself? 83, No. In constructing her argument, however, she often contradicts herself undermining the effectiveness of her argument and leaving the reader confused. Upon hearing the mothers question, Dillard [wants] to make her as happy as possible, reward her courage, and run (98). Make it violent? (Q9) Describe what is meant by being stunned into stillness drawing on evidence from paragraph 10. All in all, the details of a persons life is examined differently whether the person chooses to live the type of life where they look at the details or. [Read intervening paragraphs.] [Reading intervening paragraphs.] They think what man tells it to think. In other words, what is the effect of bracketing the discussion of Hollis Pond with mention of the weasel? Furthermore, the overall argument of this essay is not only eye-opening, but also persuasive considering that it leaves the reader with a life question; what standards am I living by? The taskmaster meets the dreamer, and it's time to get serious, take those . Or did the eagle eat what he could reach, gutting the living weasel with his talons before his breast, bending his beak, cleaning the beautiful airborne bones? no answers of the sort Weasels are wild because they live outdoors and are not pets). Living Like Weasels
Exemplar TextVocabulary1 A weasel is wild. Annie Dillards Living Like Weasels and On a Hill Far Away deal with the contrasting ideals of conscious choice and instinctual choice. Feb 27, 2023February 27, 2023 / 0 Comments. It is a valuable tool, not just for an animals utilization, in the sense that it can guide one in several situations. I agree that Dillard earns for a simpler life. It show that the aboriginals did not understand how the Europeans ship could float and what the possums are seeing from the rabbits is the same., Because the society is still patriarchal, which means is still mainly ruled by men and the most important jobs such as managers are occupied mainly by men, it is hard for women to prove they are capable to do the same jobs as men. "he stalks". So. In Shirley Jacksons novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the speaker, Merricat, is an outsider of society on many levels, such as mental health, gender, and that she is an upper class citizen in a poor area. Weasels are very tenacious creatures and what they have their eye set on something they want, they go and get it. One naturalist refused to kill a weasel who was socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake. Why does she give readers this bare bones summation and why does she do so at this point in the text? Why might she have chosen this point in the text for these descriptions? Although Dillard's many passions influence her life incredibly, it is reading, however, that most molds her childhood worldview. He didnt act ruthlessly and attempted to talk some sense into the boys about their actions; however the boys reluctant. Sometimes he lives in his den for two days without leaving. It is completely unsurprising to hear how only 6 percent of the population follows the routes they desire (Haltiwanger, 1). Studying how it lives its life. In Living Like Weasels, Annie Dillard interprets that being wild is to be free: to go after your calling, focused on the need to succeed. The following stories vividly illustrate the instinctual nature of weasels to hold on no matter what, hinting at the final paragraphs, where Dillard encourages her reader to live like a weasel and choose a life that is worth holding onto. Lines 19-21:Identify Dillards use of alliteration and consonance and describe their effect on, 3.Lines 3249: What instances of juxtaposition are in these lines? 11 He disappeared. In the short story The Glass Roses by Alden Nowlan. He was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon, brown as fruitwood, soft-furred, alert. At times, the questions themselves may focus on academic vocabulary. It returns her to her own sense of self and provides a space for reflection - It startles her very self. Rosser, a 19-year-old graduate of Central York High School says Central helped her along her college journey, the teachers at Central really cared for her and help her grow as a student and a person. 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