Human's Choice "Living Like a Weasel" by Annie Dillard, an essay discusses the first encounter the author had with a weasel, and the lesson in life she took out of the encounter. The weasel lives by their instinct and the writer lives by her choices. The writer wants to compare mankind with the weasel's wildness. Every single individual has their own way living a life, we could go with our instinct or choose our own path. A weasel is wild animal, they kill rabbit, mice, and birds. Weasel is about ten inches tall, small and has brown fur. We don't know what they think. They live in the underground den. Sometimes, they don't come out for a few days. "A weasel doesn't attack anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment