The Chase by Annie DIillard

Rhetorical Analysis Of “The Chase” by Annie Dillard

In “The Chase” Annie Dillard things back to a time in her childhood when she threw a snowball at a car and was chased by a man through her neighborhood. Although she is now an adult, Dillard still remembers this incident vividly. She shows how this chase stayed with her throughout her life because it was the most exciting experience she ever had. Annie Dillard, begins the story by mentioning bits of her interests as a young girl. She sets up the story by introducing two parts of her childhood, baseball and football. In each of these sports, she points out the important lessons she learned. These lessons' importance would become more clear later on during the events. “It was all or nothing”. Dillard Basically stating that in football you have got to give all of your effort and not hesitate at all if you want to make the tackle and stop the offense. This do or die attitude is reflected later in the story during the chase scene.
In the first paragraph Dillard introduced her strategy of winning through the use of flashback. “You went out for a pass...It was nothing at all…If you hesitated in fear…” the use of past tense shows her use of flashback. She is very outgoing and adventurous. She likes to play sports with the boys rather than having tea parties. In the warm weather, Dillard and the boys played baseball and football. However in the winter there was neither football nor baseball, so Dillard and the boys threw snowballs at passing cars. She got into trouble for throwing snowballs, but