Summary Of Living Like Weasels By Annie Dillard

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Pulitzer prize-winning nature writer Annie Dillard, in her essay “Living Like Weasels”, claims that humans should adopt the weasels’ way of life, living purely from necessity. Dillard’s purpose is to advise people to live happy lives by focusing on their true passions. She adopts a didactic tone to explain to her readers that living out of instinct is the best way to live. To begin her essay, Dillard describes the wild weasels’ habits by posing a question to herself and her readers, “who knows what he thinks?” (1). Dillard uses several of these questions in her essay that provide readers a clue into what Dillard is trying to explain. This specific question in the first paragraph not only allows a smooth transition into the description of a