From the beginning, Annie Dillard mentions how the eclipse was unique. She does this by stating how the sky “deepened to indigo.” When she mentions the color of the sky, she also emphasizes that it was “never seen.” Dillard's very detailed description of the eclipse makes it very clear that it was awesome. She makes it seem that she was out of this world. In Dillard's writing “Total Eclipse” her use of metaphors helps us imagine it as if we were there. As an example of Dillard's use of metaphors, Dillard wrote in paragraph two “I was standing in a movie of hillside grasses filmed in the Middle Ages.” This makes me feel as if I have stepped into a nineteenth century photograph. In every little detail stated it helps me understand more what