Always Running By Annie Dillard Summary

What is engagement? Is it something an author uses just to entertain their audience? As a reader you want to be pulled in and experience the thrill in the author’s texts. You want to understand why the author decided to do what they did. In the short story “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard and “Always Running” by Luis J. Rodriguez, they utilize many action verbs, different forms of figurative language, tone, and structure to engage the reader. Dillard and Rodriguez uses active verbs in their stories to bring out how they felt about being chased by adults. In “An American Childhood”, Dillard explains how she escapes with her friend “under a low tree, up a bank, through a hedge, down some snowy steps, and across the grocery store's delivery driveway.” Her choice in verbs paints the image more vividly. Rodriguez also has a unique wording in his sentence. He explains how he and “Tino hopped on a bench, then pulled
Dillard did not give a story that would lead a reader to be hurt in any way. Dillard articulates how she feels after the events and says she is glad the man was as good of a man as he was. She further empathizes about him and says that she does now know how he got back to his car. The narrator makes the reader feel bad for the man who had chased them as well. The fast paced run and stop led readers to believe he was not going to let the kids go, but he does. This differs from Rodriguez since he makes the chaser do the exact opposite. By bringing direct harm to the runner. Though every author is unique in their own way. Dillard’s writing style was more narrative than that of Rodriguez’s style, where it is more dialogue. Dillard made it to where you were able to understand how she felt running away from an adult through the neighborhood. Unlike Rodriguez, he had more of a conversation with him and his friend about his experience running away from the