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Pilgrim At Tinker Creek Analysis

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Think of this, when you were younger you probably had a teddy bear, right? Think of you childhood teddy bear. Now put human teeth on him/her, it seemed weird didn't it. Dillard does a lot of this in her book “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”. She describes things in her memoir with descriptions or words that shouldn’t apply to the subject/object that she is in the process of talking about. For example, in the last chapter of “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” she is sitting on a grassy in the winter and reflecting on her time at tinker creek when she says, “I fingered the winter killed grass, looping it round the tip of my finger like hair, ruffling its tips with my palms.”(Dillard, 264) Now, I don’t know about you but “fingered” and grass don’t seem to go

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