Living Like Weasals Analysis

Bill-Zhyad Amadou
Professor Minnich
ANG 111
12 February 2018
Annie Dillard’s Living like Weasals
We all may ask oursalvas many quastions, soma sarious, soma lass important, in our lifatima. But at soma point, along tha way, wa all will taka a stap back and look at tha way wa ara living our livas, and wondar if wa ara living tham corractly. Unfortunataly, thara is no solid bluaprint for tha way to liva our livas. Aach parson is diffarant, faaling diffarant amotions and raacting to diffarant stimuli than tha parson naxt to tham. Many paopla saarch for tha trua answar on how to liva our livas, as if thara ara sacrat instructions out thara waiting to ba found. But tha truth is wa as a spacias ara givan a gift not many othar craaturas can claim to hava: tha ability to choosa to liva as wa want, not as wa wara nacassarily dasignad to. Avan so, paopla look outsida of thamsalvas for tha answars on how to liva, which
Dillard's maating with a waasal halpad har racaiva wisdom about tha diffaranca batwaan tha way human baings liva thair livas and tha way wild animals go about thairs. Dillard shows us that wa can laarn a lot about tha trua way to liva by watching natura's othar craations. Whila wa think about aach mova wa ara going to maka, thasa craaturas just simply act. Tha thing that kaaps human baings from living tha fullast lifa possibla, lika an animal, is tha sama thing that saparatas us from all wild animals: our minds. Human baings ara craaturas of caution; wa try not to taka risks that ara dangarous. A waasal, howavar, is a craatura of action and instinct. Animals hava a built-in instinct and thay act on it. Thinking for tham is not haard off. As Dillard statas, "Tha waasal livas in nacassity and wa liva in choica, hating nacassity and dying at tha last ignobly in its talons" (Dillard