Sinking into dillard's essay

After Dillard vividly describes Hollins Pond where she encountered a weasel, readers can have a sense of weasels’ utter wildness and humans’ arguable civilization. Hollins Pond is a suburban. Divided by “two low barbed-wire fences”, on one side is “a 55mph highway” which stands for the bustle and hustle of humans’ civilization, but on the other side we call wildness, it is “an enormous shaggy wild rose bush” beneath which weasels walk. On the wild side, steers will come in winter; and water lilies will blossom in summer. The scene of Hollins Pond will change accord

Using visual imagery, Dillard helps readers visualize an alternative way of living and helps them empathize with the weasel. When Dillard and the weasel looked at each other, their eyes were locked for sixty seconds. During these sixty seconds, their look was “a clearing blow to the gut”, and “was also a bright blow to the brain”. At that moment, Dillard who is a human was playing the “tape” of the weasel, although they are different beings. It proves that humans and weasel have the same need to live freely. As Dillard mentions, wild turtles can lay eggs in motorcycle tracks. Wild turtles are wild; Motorcycle tracks are civilized, but in Hollins Pond, they can join together so perfectly. Hence, the “blood” of wildness also can “pulse into our guts through jugular veins”, as long as we “grasp our one necess

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