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Annie Dillard is an amazing author and writes about her experience of working hard and how it pays off. I 100% agree with Dillard’s beliefs about talent and if you work hard towards your goal to achieve it, then it will be much more rewarding in the end. Now a day’s people in society feel like ones’ talent just comes naturally without really having to work for them at all. This is exactly the opposite of what Annie’s perspective was on talents. Society today wants the easy way out and they don’t want to work hard to achieve their goal. If one is not born with a talent and it is not natural to them then they feel as if the talent wasn’t meant for them. In Dillard’s writings, she tries her best to relate to her readers to help them understand the message she is trying to convey. …show more content…
By working hard, you can get so many things accomplished and you can get it done faster and in the end, hard work pays off. So many people in this world have many great talents, but choose not to use them. They do this because society today wants everything to come to them and they don’t want to put the effort into it. I think this is why Dillard wrote what she did to try to motivate people to keep working hard and it will all be worth it in the

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