A Hill Far Away Annie Dillard Analysis

In A Hill Far Away, Annie Dillard is taking an evening stroll around a creek near her home when she comes across a young boy. The boy seems about eight years old and is of small stature. Dillard sees him through a barbed wire fence, where he is playing, as a child might. Eventually, the boy gains sight of Dillard and comes over to say hello. While Dillard is speaking to the boy, she is mentally making judgments over him. Soon enough, the boy starts looking even more nervous than usual and asks Dillard a seemingly forced question. “Do you know the Lord as your personal savior?” This was not Dillard’s first time hearing this question. Dillard quickly realized that she had met the boy’s mother. Both the boy and his mother seemed reluctant to