Summary Of The Deer At Providencia

In Annie Dillard’s, The Deer at Providencia, two clear examples of suffering are illustrated while four people take a journey through the Ecuadorian Jungle. The reader is able to see a deer tied to a tree and a man who is in critical condition after being burnt for the second time. The author makes it clear to the reader the suffering is not the fault of the one suffering but merely a result of accident and other people’s actions. While hiking through the jungle, four North Americans come across a village that is going about their day to day lives; however, at the forefront of the village is a deer roped to a tree waiting to die for the village to be able to eat. The explorers are taken back by this sight because in America, people are not costumed to

In the incident of the deer and of the burn victim, the reader feels sympathy for the sufferer because they know nothing could have changed the outcome. There is nothing that Alan or the deer could have done differently to avoid being a village’s lunch or stuck in a burn ward. The author is hinting at a much bigger idea in this story rather than just making the readers feel bad for the deer and the burn victim. Instead, Dillard is explain that suffering is a result of an incident that was completely out of a person’s control. That means that the deer suffered because of the villagers. Alan suffered because of a freak accident. Suffering is found when people make a decision that affects another in a negative way. An example of suffering could be that a girl decides to date a boy from her school, but there was another girl who liked that same boy and now she is heartbroken. Suffering can be something as simple as a heart break or as serious as death. The author is able to explain a complicated concept through a story that on the outside seems like an easy