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September 22, 2005
Reaction to "Seeing" by Annie Dillard
I liked the beginning of the essay. An innocent girl on the sidewalk drawing arrows. As she learns to write, it points out her process of her growing up and maturing. Learning to observe and look around her. She wants to see what many of us don't see. The girl is eager. There was smooth transition when the girl grows up and the author writes in first person. People see what she sees, but don't take the time to observe that nature around us, as the insects crawling in the grass. Another Dillard's good example was, The Osage orange tree vs. hundreds of blackbirds. How the birds flew by in hundreds and hundreds from one tree to another, but her reaction is as same of those who have never seen them before.
The author lost me after the third paragraph. The paragraphs were flat and full with too many details and pure observations of what the author saw. It was hard to see through her eyes.
I liked the sentence, "If we are blinded by darkness, we are also blinded by light." We are not blinded by light. But even if there is light, people don't see what truly there is to see. If people don't see the obvious, it is as same as being blind, or being in the dark.
Posted by lcisbold at September 22, 2005 04:06 PM
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Are you sure we aren't blinded by light????
Posted by: Ellen Grabiner at September 22, 2005 09:19 PM