Traditionally, humans have touted themselves as the most intelligent and compassionate creatures on Earth. In their interactions with other species, humans have used this claim as the basis for their ill-treatment of those species. But does human...

In Annie Dillard’s essay, “Living Like Weasels”, she reminisces on her encounter with a weasel, and even though the weasel was a mere animal, it invoked life altering thoughts from within the author. Dillard compares the life of a wild weasel to...

In Annie Dillard’s non-fiction narrative, For the Time Being, Dillard explores the question: Is God fair? A belief in God's fairness (or unfairness) is a cultural aspect with a strong impact on the narrative. This question is studied and explained...

Would you rather fight a hundred duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck? John James Audubon, celebrated ornithologist, would prefer to fight a horse-sized duck due to his immense fear of large swarms of animals, such as the mass of birds he...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek written by Annie Dillard is a very mysterious novel. She goes through life examining many different things one would not typically pay attention to. She wants for us to go through life the way she does, by observing...