Living like weasels by Annie Dillard

The Rationale of Being Free

Annie Dillard 's Living Like Weasels ' says more than embrace one 's `animal ' instincts but delves more on the idea that one must latch into our own necessity that instinct dictates us to go for , Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even , till your eyes burn out and drop ' as she candidly puts it in her essay 's last paragraph . From a chanced encounter with a weasel , the writer conveyed how the small animal could give humans some lessons on how they should live their

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From the first paragraph , Annie Dillard 's first sentence , A weasel is wild ' summarizes the basic behavior that a weasel has . An animal that sleeps , stalks , kills and eats . A vicious cycle , one might call it but the writer already neutralizes the reader 's thoughts by following the first statement with a question , Who knows what he thinks ' and again stating that the weasel is Obedient to instinct ' It is interesting to see that Dillard started her essay with what the weasel is , simply an animal driven by instinct to survive . No more , no less . But her interest is more on the instinct and determination that drives the animal to latch on to its victim even if it 's an animal or even a man without fear , without `thinking . This fascination was again raised in the second paragraph , He examined the eagle and found the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his...