David Dillard Allegory

In “Living Like Weasels,” author Annie Dillard’s idea is that humans can benefit from living wild as a weasel. I strongly agree because to live wild like a weasel is to live mindless, free and focused. With these living abilities we as humans will be able get closer to our aspirations in life and do whatever means necessary to get there.

Based on Annie Dillard’s account of witnessing a total eclipse in her essay “Total Eclipse” I would have to say she definitely encourages her readers to witness a total eclipse. She says that it is almost the opposite of a partial eclipse, which I am sure most people have seen many times before, that’s how different they are and I believe most people including myself think partial eclipses are spectacular and almost dreamlike.

In An American Childhood by Annie Dillard, Dillard reminisces on her many adventures throughout her childhood living in Pittsburgh. Her stories explain her school, her home life, her family, and growing up. Dillard also talks about changes in her life, and how they affect her, and how she felt about others around her. One’s childhood is a crucial part of life, because it’s a time of learning more than any other time of life. Childhood is a time of curiosity and realization. What you learn in your childhood has a big impact on how you make decisions and act as an adult.

With his provoking work entitled The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins attempts to answer such questions as he proposes a shift in the evolutionary paradigm. Working through the metaphor of a "selfish gene", Dawkins constructs an evolutionary model using a gene as the fundamental unit of selection, opposed to the more commonly accepted belief of the species as the unit of selection.

Annie Dillard uses metaphors and symbols to emphasize the importance of words coming together to create a showpiece of literature. Dillard uses the line "you lay out a line of words" instead of "you write a sentence" to give some complexity to the action. Instead of simply writting down words you lay them down almost in a gentle matter and line them up so each word fits in one place. Although the meaning is the same, the connatation allows for the reader to develop an image of words being placed down with thought to how they are ordered. The reader can also assert that the words are chosen carefully so the sentence flows with unity. One metaphor Dillard uses is "The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarvers gauge, a surgeon's probe".

Throughout “Nonmoral Nature”, Gould explains that we need to look at nature without personifying it or putting human values on it. He believes that those who approach a scientific situation with a pre-established view in mind are preventing the kind of objectivity and fairness that scientific examination is supposed to produce. Gould explains that the existence of what seems to be evil in nature creates an argument between scientists and creationists. Many phenomena that occur in nature seem to be wrong or disturbing, and go against the idea that God creates everything and that everything is benevolent. One such creature is the ichneumon wasp. The ichneumon wasp is the stuff of nightmares; the larva are planted inside of a caterpillar or other

God! A figure of love and forgiveness to many, a figure of fear to others. Pulitzer Prize winning essayist Annie Dillard illustrates the differences and similarities on how one feels about God in her essays “On a Hill Far Away” and “God in the Doorway”. Dillard explores children’s fear of God by comparing her portrayal of herself with the child on the hill, using common motifs, symbols, and differences of tone to contrast the two reactions.

Another allegory for our times with relevant themes was racism. It seems that Gary Ross uses the history of racism in America to show how extremely silliness the views of Americans looked at treating people badly or unfairly because of their race in the past. It also seems that he basing this movie on what was happening to African Americans and how they were treated in the 50s & 60s to how the black & white people of Pleasantville are treating people that are in color. There are many examples of this relationship is when a sign in the store window is shown that reads "No coloreds" (movie). This is making inferences to when blacks in America weren't allowed in specific places of business using signs much like the one in the movie. Another example

Annie Dillard's "Seeing" demonstrates the intricacies of Dillard's relationship between the true place of matter in our world and how expectations and preconceptions shape how that matter is defined.

Dillard Wayne Early Jr., a Southern boy who has faced countless setbacks and casualties throughout his life, looks towards his close companions, Travis and Lydia, to save him from complete darkness. Son to a Pentecostal minister known infamously as the Serpent King, Dill is faced with consequences as he is looked down upon by those around him due to his father’s drastic faith. With his senior year of his high school, Forrestville High, coming to a halt, Dillard is left with very few opportunities for his future. As Dill’s mother presses him to live a simple life and help work to pay off their debts, and his father demands Dill to follow his faith and succumb to the poisonous vipers, his relationship with his father and mother slowly wither

Dillard had an appreciation for the world and history, especially anything that had to do with Pittsburg or her family. Her father wanted to help in the Second World War but he was not allowed, and had he been she might not have been born. Her birthday was the day that Hitler died, basically the end of the war, and her father had not joined the fight oversees, instead choosing to help watch for air raids in Pittsburgh.

By choosing ignorance in the face of knowledge one refuses God’s gift of the mind. The entire town chose to sit in the stew of ignorance by denouncing an idea, Darwinism, of which they chose to know nothing about (55). Evolution of thought overcomes ignorance through Rachael realizing that thoughts “[have] to be born,” and that corruption does not lie in the thoughts. Rather evil is bred in hatred and chosen ignorance.

The Allegory of the Cave has many parallels with The Truman Show. Initially, Truman is trapped in his own “cave”; a film set or fictional island known as Seahaven. Truman’s journey or ascension into the real world and into knowledge is similar to that of Plato’s cave dweller. In this paper, I will discuss these similarities along with the very intent of both of these works whose purpose is for us to question our own reality.

This dramatic painting by Benjamin West commemorates the 1752 experiment in Philadelphia in which Benjamin Franklin demonstrated that lightning is a form of electricity.

The article, “A Matter of Scale,” urges the audience to observe the small and extraordinary components of the biosphere and acknowledge its genetic variations as explained by Darwin’s theory of evolution. However, Kelly’s essay, “Evolution: An Article of Faith,” considers Darwin’s theory as a “false religion” suppressing God’s ability to create the “work of intelligence.” (Evolution) The heated debate over the credibility of Darwin’s theory of evolution has led to the division of scientific and religious groups. Devoted, religious people discover two major flaws with Darwin’s theory of evolution regarding the inaccuracies of the fossil record and the contradicting phrase “survival of the fittest” that has passed on harmful mutations to next