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Joan Didion Holy Water Analysis

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Holy Water In the essay Holy Water, by Joan Didion, water is scarce and only certain people have control over this liquid. The story is about a Woman who lives in California, where water is limited and the supply of water comes from other parts of the state or country. In this uniquely written essay Didion uses personal reflection and a sense of place, to help develop the association between sacredness of the water and her fascination with the ability to control it. In the essay, Didion’s strategy is to portray meditation and reverence of Water. Growing up in California there was a lack of water and she has a deep fascination that others may not, “Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might
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