Holy the Firm
1. When Annie Dillard says “I’ll do it in the evenings, after skiing, or on the way home from the bank…” she is referring to writing, and how writing is something that you have to take on completely and make it your whole life.
2. The most climactic event of Dillard’s narrative is when the female moth goes into the flame of the candle and her body is shriveling and crumbling away. She connects it with what she sees in the bathroom because the hollow body of the female moth didn’t crumble and became a second wick on the candle, so therefore she knew what empty moth bodies looked like.
3. The analogy implies that when you become a writer, you have to dive into it and stick with it even when through the suffering. Also, writing is something that becomes a part of you and something that sticks with you until death.
4. The thing that makes the spider web miraculous is that it is in an inconvenient place and it’s a mess of a web but the spider still works with it and manages to survive, even thrive, using it. Dillard has shown in this essay that she is very fond of nature and the natural world and that she finds everything about nature fascinating and beautiful and she romanticizes things that usually have a bad reputation such as spiders.
5. I would say to George that he would need to reread the essay and pay more attention, for the only main insects in the essay were moths and spiders. Also, that the whole essay is a metaphor for the life of a writer and that he should trying looking at it thusly.
How I Wrote the Moth Essay and Why Questions
1. Annie Dillard is opposed to writing personally because the work starts to become more about you and your opinions than the audience and trying to connect with their emotions. She says to avoid writing about things just to write about them and babble on endlessly without cutting it out of the final draft. She also suggests that you need to look at it analytically and coldly or else it will be all about you
2. The most climactic event of Dillard’s narrative is when the female moth goes into the flame of the candle and her body is shriveling and crumbling away. She connects it with what she sees in the bathroom because the hollow body of the female moth didn’t crumble and became a second wick on the candle, so therefore she knew what empty moth bodies looked like.
3. The analogy implies that when you become a writer, you have to dive into it and stick with it even when through the suffering. Also, writing is something that becomes a part of you and something that sticks with you until death.
4. The thing that makes the spider web miraculous is that it is in an inconvenient place and it’s a mess of a web but the spider still works with it and manages to survive, even thrive, using it. Dillard has shown in this essay that she is very fond of nature and the natural world and that she finds everything about nature fascinating and beautiful and she romanticizes things that usually have a bad reputation such as spiders.
5. I would say to George that he would need to reread the essay and pay more attention, for the only main insects in the essay were moths and spiders. Also, that the whole essay is a metaphor for the life of a writer and that he should trying looking at it thusly.
How I Wrote the Moth Essay and Why Questions
1. Annie Dillard is opposed to writing personally because the work starts to become more about you and your opinions than the audience and trying to connect with their emotions. She says to avoid writing about things just to write about them and babble on endlessly without cutting it out of the final draft. She also suggests that you need to look at it analytically and coldly or else it will be all about you