Living like a weasel might be the best that could happen to us. After reading “Living Like Weasels,” I realized that the way we live is not good for us because it’s too much thinking that we do and it gets in the way of our success. We need to stop giving a lot of thought about things and just grasp the things we want to do the most.
In “Living Like Weasels,” by Annie Dillard explains her experience with a weasel and why we should live like one. She begins, describing the weasel nature saying that they sleep in an underground den, with his tail draped over his nose. The weasel stalks rabbits, mice, muskrats, and birds. Also, weasels live off instinct, biting his prey at the neck splitting the jugular vein or crunching on the brain at the base of the prey skull not letting go. While Dillard was at a place called Hollins Ponds where she goes to escape reality she comes across this weasel that tapped into her thoughts as she did the same. Then she describes this moment as two lovers looking at each other, or deadly enemies that met unexpectedly on an path. Finally, from her experience with a weasel she believes that we all should live like one.
The most significant idea in the text is that when it comes to living we should follow the way of the weasels. Dillard states that the way
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As for weasels, they never make excuses on doing things because if they do they will suffer the consequences of reality, which is dying. Everything a weasel does is to keep them going to see another day, it’s like survival of the fittest. In the story Dillard explains to us that weasels don’t attack they live like the way their supposed to, which is taking advantage of every moment they’re given to live a better life. The same way weasels take advantage of the moment and run with we should do the same instead of having to think about
. ." (lines 5-7). In this, he tries to begin to explain that in order to truly live the fullest life possible, one must live simply; literally "driv[ing] life into a corner, and reduc[ing] it to its lowest terms" is the only way to achieve fullness. Later, he also states: "Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without [disturbance]; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry. . ." (lines 13-16). In this, he expresses that one should not let the daily disturbances of life affect oneself. Life should be lived with litle disturbance, and even such disturbances should not be taken as seriously. In choosing to give examples, he shows just how many things go on that one can be pestered with, and that one should choose to ignore them and let them pass by. He also states: "Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud
Coverdale’s “moral,” which implicates all of the reformers, including both Hollingsworth and himself, implies that an Edenic world created by individuals unwilling to acknowledge a deterministic universe ultimately proves destructive, both to the self and to others. It not only proves fatal for the individual—as evidenced in Hollingsworth’s “ruling passion,” Coverdale’s disillusionment, and Zenobia’s suicide—but it also proves fatal to the community, composed of “rich juices” symbolically depicted throughout the novel as fruit, specifically grapes and wine, that represent its members and their desires. When “pressed violently,” these “ruling passion[s]” follow an “unnatural process” that cannot accommodate a “life sweet, bland, and gently beneficent,” or one that accepts a predetermined course not governed by individual human will.
In chapter three, the author uses a great example of immorality through Gatsby's party. The author goes in depth about Gatsby's party so he can help the reader understand Gatsby's character and the purpose of his assembly. At Gatsby's party, most of the guests that are present have not been formally invited to the party but have been brought by others or just to drop in. The uninvited guests drink Gatsby's liquor and eat his food without even attempting to meet Gatsby's or give their appreciation, this shows their unethical manners. The women purposely dress in silvers and gold's to show their wealth and only pretend to have fun. The only reason the uninvited guests come to the party to show off their riches with their clothes or appearance. The guests do not realize that they are only pretending to be happy. At these parti...
"Of Mice and Men" is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in the 1930s, a period known as the Great Depression. The novel, which takes place in Salinas, California, is about two workers, George and Lennie. The two men travel together and work on different ranches, with a dream of one day having their own farm. Steinbeck explores the themes of loneliness friendship, and hopes and dreams through the various characters and events. This extract takes place after George and Lennie arrives to a new ranch to work. John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to prepare the reader for future events. This is done by the use of repetition, symbols, and metaphors. In this extract, the author foreshadows the events to come through the introduction of Curley's wife and through the reaction of George and Lennie. This extract is significant to the rest of the novel as it introduces the main antagonist, Curley's wife, and also influences what the reader thinks and feels about Curley's wife, as well as the danger the character poses.
(Page 410) With that one statement we understand Van Winkle's predicament. Without his community to
The actions of the pigs express this theme by starting with good intentions, but slowly becoming more and more like what they were trying to avoid. In the beginning of the story Old Major gives a speech to the animals on the farm, and in this speech he mentions how cruel the humans are. During his speech Old Major uses Boxer the horse as an example when he says “You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds.” (Orwell 11). He then proceeds to tell the animals that once they revolt the cruelty will end, and at first it does, but soon the pigs begin to act more like humans. The pi...
Thesis: Through the flawed characteristics of Tom and Daisy as well as the irresponsible actions of Jordan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, it is evident that the theme “wealth can breed carelessness” causes certain characters to forget about their responsibilities and minimizes any potential forethought.
Possibly by making life a little simpler, in turn would impact our world positively where it would be absent of the mental tribulations that some experience today in our human life. Mental tribulations are contributed by stress of our current life of choices where we choose to work long hours to get ahead, we choose to go to school while working and raising a family, we choose to help our elderly parents, we choose to keep adding on more and more financial or non-financial responsibilities that cause this additional stress. If we could get rid of all that stress, remove the choices that give us that stress, wouldn’t we all feel better? When we look at the weasels life of freedom the weasel is “noticing everything, remembering nothing” (Dillard 121), this infers that the weasel is not living in the past like us humans do, he is living in the present time. If humans were able to do this, we wouldn’t dwell on our mistakes, we wouldn’t have the mental scars from a bad childhood or from a tragic time in our life, we wouldn’t worry about what tomorrow would bring, we wouldn’t need our past or memories, we would move forward just like any other day using our natural instincts, like that of a weasel, to fulfill a basic necessity, such as food. If humans took a few steps back and made their life a little more primitive
In this lab, we explore the theory of optimal foraging and the theory of central place foraging using beavers as the model animal. Foraging refers to the mammalian behavior associated with searching for food. The optimal foraging theory assumes that animals feed in a way that maximizes their net rate of energy intake per unit time (Pyke et al. 1977). An animal may either maximize its daily energy intake (energy maximizer) or minimize the time spent feeding (time minimizer) in order to meet minimum requirements. Herbivores commonly behave as energy maximizers (Belovsky 1986) and accomplish this maximizing behavior by choosing food that is of high quality and has low-search and low-handling time (Pyke et al. 1977).
We are not necessarily meant to live a comfortable lifestyle. Such a life would chock the freedom's that make hero's out of men.
Manipulation of language can be a weapon of mind control and abuse of power. The story Animal Farm by George Orwell is all about manipulation, and the major way manipulation is used in this novel is by the use of words. The character in this book named Squealer employs ethos, pathos, and logos in order to manipulate the other animals and maintain control.
also said go get the gun so i go get the gun when i come
In the clip “The Lion’s Cage” Charlie is running away from a donkey, and he ends up to be in a lion’s cage. He turns back to leave, but the door is locked behind him. One of the proxemics that is clear then is that he keeps a large distance between him and the lion, which reflect that he is afraid. The lion is still sleeping, but a dog comes and starts barking, so he uses his hand gestures to try to ask the dog not to bark. He tries to be as quiet and calm as he could, and he never touches the lion, which is one of the haptics that he does. About the chronemics, he uses his time to figure out how to escape from the cage before the lion wake up. When he tries to crawl into the next cage, he saw a tiger and his eyes become big, so he crawls back
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” This is a popular saying that explains that, sometimes, in order to persuade or convince people, one should not use force but words. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, animals overthrow the human leader and start a new life, but some animals want to become the new leaders. To make the other animals obey the pigs, they first have to persuade the farm’s population. Squealer is the best pig for this job because he effectively convinces the animals to follow Napoleon by using different rhetorical devices and methods of persuasion.
Every play written uses dramatic elements. The main dramatic elements are plot, character, theme, and language. Lillian Hellman, who wrote the Little Foxes, incorporates these elements beautifully in her play. The play is set during the spring of 1900 and takes place in the Deep South part of the United States of America. Just as every other play, the Little Foxes has included the dramatic elements in her play, particularly the plot, character, and language that all incorporate an underlying theme of greed.