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Annie Dillard Living Like Weasels Analysis

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This evaluation of style will be examining the essay “Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard. Dillard composed her essay as part of a larger collection of short nonfiction narrative essays during the year 1982 when amendments to the original 1972 Wildlife Protection Act of the United States of America took place, in which the original intent being to increase awareness of the compelling need to restore the catastrophic ecological imbalances introduced by the disfigurement inflicted on nature by mankind. Dillard writes with a picturesque style, which aids in Dillard’s intensely detail oriented behavior, as well as her deep concern with the applicability of animal traits to human behaviors.
One of the most distinguishing aspects of Dillard’s picturesque
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