Potential In Annie Dillards An American Childhood

Potential. It is something we all have. Some people realize they have it and some don’t. Many individuals overlook the potential in others, seeing only annoying quirks and peculiar idiosyncrasies. Others have a gift for seeing potential and being able to help someone flourish. Opportunity on the other hand is something that only comes around occasionally and sometimes it never comes. There can be all the potential in the world in someone or something but if opportunity does not come the potential is never revealed. It can be observed in Annie Dillards’ An American Childhood, in events in history, and even in today’s society that there is extensive underlying potential in people and places that we simply overlook because there is no opportunity for it to be demonstrated in its fullest capacity. Through Annie Dillard’s description of her mother in her book An American Childhood, the exponential potential for greatness in her mother was covertly relayed. The story portrays her potential through weird quirks and irritations. Mother caught onto unique
In the case of Annie’s mother, it is illustrated that potential can be limited by the opportunity given from the government. Legal matters also restrict the potential of home school students participating in team sports, but they were additionally limited by the lack of vision from the parents to create a home school sports league before 2009. Finally, Allendale dealt with the lack of opportunity created by the changing of the land and the loss of travelers. The creation of a highway deleted their opportunity to demonstration their potential. All in all, the ability for potential to be clearly seen resides on the opportunity