Analysis Of Living Like Weasels

Annie Dillard said “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure to grasp your one necessity and not let it go”(879) in her story “Living Like Weasels”. This quote is stating that everyone should set a goal and work to achieve it. You should find one thing you can’t live without and cherish it forever. A necessity that no one should ever let go is their goals. One necessity that I feel i’ve never given up was my goal to be successful with basketball.

According to dictionary.com a goal is “the result or achievement toward which effort is directed.” A goal is a checkpoint that you strive to accomplish throughout life. Reading Dillards quote makes me think of never giving up on your goals and aspirations because if you have realistic goals and work hard towards them they can be achieved. In “Living Like Weasels” Annie Dillard says humans need to live more like weasels, “noticing everything, remembering nothing” (879). This portrays the weasel as living

Similar to the weasel in Annie Dillard's “Living Like Weasels” , the weasel was consistent in everything it did; all of his actions were based from it’s needs and instinct from stalking prey, to the way it thinks and acts, and even the way it lives freely. In the book “Living Like Weasels” Annie Dillard describes the weasel as a symbol of freedom that lives for it out of necessity, similar to my need for basketball. In the story Dillard goes on to describe how humans live by choice and the weasel lives by necessity. This is partially true due to the fact that humans do get to choose where, and how they live to an extent but one thing that is constant in everyone is their one necessity that keeps them motivated. Whether that be money, hobbies, or even competition. For me, basketball is my one necessity that I can't go