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    Annie Dillard "The Chase"

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    In Annie Dillard’s autobiography “The Chase”‚ she emphasizes and uses great detail in her different writing techniques to make the scenes in the story feel more alive or realistic. The attention of detail can be seen with her intense use of transitions and active descriptions in the actual chase scene. Dillard also uses tone and language of the characters to make the story feel more like actual real time events. In the first paragraph of “The Chase”‚ the narrator of the story a seven year old girl

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    “The ChaseAnnie Dillard wrote a short story called‚ “The Chase”. The story is about a little girl who plays like the boys. This young girl can easily hold her own against her young neighbor boy friends‚ and does. On a cold winter day as the children are throwing snowballs at cars for fun‚ they happen to hit a Buick‚ cracking the window. This then leads to an exhilarating chase between the children and a middle aged man. The story is read in many different ways‚ to me however‚ I see it as though

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    narrative‚ Annie Dillard illustrates the exhilaration gained from the pursuit of glory. The chase begins after kids in a neighborhood hit the windshield of a car with a snowball. The man inside the vehicle opens the door and proceeds to chase them. The breathlessness of the glory comes from the man chasing them through the neighborhood. Dillard’s use of compelling writing techniques emphasizes the way concrete detail‚ repetition‚ and parallelism contributes to the breathlessness of the chase. Annie Dillard

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    In “The Chase” by Annie Dillard‚ the actual chase sequence is only six paragraphs long‚ a relatively short selection. But when read by the reader the passage seems to be much longer than only six paragraphs. This effect is made possible through Dillard’s excellent use of description‚ details‚ transitions‚ repetition‚ sentence variety‚ parallelism‚ point of view‚ and tension. “He ran after us‚ and we ran away from him‚ up the snowy Reynolds sidewalk. At the corner‚ I looked back; incredibly‚ he

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    In Annie Dillard’s “The Chase” she begins the short story by explaining how she was involved in the sports activities in the neighborhood. The audience understand that Annie feels like there is nothing more exciting than playing boys sports. We see that she is the only girl that plays with the boys. Then we are given a detailed memory of how one snowy day doing the usual snow day and her friends throwing snowballs at passing cars. However‚ one little mistake the author made‚ was throwing a snowball

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    Annie Dillard

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    Annie Dillard (born as Annie Doak)‚ born in Pittsburgh April 30‚ 1945‚ grew up in a household where creativity was a virtue. In her book An American Childhood‚ she describes growing up with encouraging parents‚ and her two younger sisters. There were days filled with piano and dance classes‚ reading books and writing stories in Annie Dillard’s childhood‚ preparing her for her future success. She says she used to be able to read over one hundred books a year on estimation. As a kid‚ Dillard and

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    “Taking our century’s measure‚” for Dillard‚ means taking count and reminding us of all the unfortunate events that have occurred in the past. She seeks to find out how we deal with news of the death of thousands in a natural disaster many miles away. Of course the answer to that is different for each person. Perhaps Dillard wishes for us to help out and make the world a better place in our own‚ unique ways. For me personally though‚ natural disasters that occur around the world do not greatly affect

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    Annie Dillard

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    Annie Dillard in the passage uses a vast collection of metaphoric comparisons and interesting diction in order to show how special and unique a writing profession is. Annie Dillard said‚ “The line of words is a miner’s pick‚ a woodcarver’s gouge‚ a surgeon’s probe.” In this statement Annie Dillard utilizes a comparison between words and a list of specialized tools that require skills to operate correctly to say that writing is a specialized profession requiring skills to be able to properly harness

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    “The Chase” by Annie Dillard In “The ChaseAnnie 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

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    Q2. In her narrative essay Annie Dillard used two rapid transitions in paragraph2: first she described how the boys taught her as a girl to play football with. She learned the tactics to use when you play football; for example‚ “Best‚ you got throw yourself mightily at someone’s running legs. Either you brought him down or you hit the ground flat on your chin‚ with your arms empty before you.” And next she disturbed during winter instead of playing outside with the ball‚ they were playing by throwing

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