Ann Dillard’s non
fiction essay The Dear at Providencia, expresses that pain and suffering are
interwoven into the tapestry of life are inescapable no matter how
unexplainable they are. Dillard makes these points by reflecting of memories in
an order that connects general themes. She describes scenes from her personal
experience in order to insinuate the connections between hardship and longevit y. She is writing for any one who feels empathy
for suffering.
This reading
insinuated the connection between life, suffering, and the necessity of
both. On Dillard’s journeying through
the Napo River Valley, she came upon a cultural confrontation with her
understanding of cultural normalcy. Like other metropolitan people she too
possessed a slightly separated understanding of meat and where it comes from.
So when she came to witness a deer being painfully restrained in order to make
the flesh more palatable. This made me
feel that human nature is naturally empathetic and does not enjoying inflicting
pain on another life form , but through the disassociation between meat and
living being it easier to do with animals as we please.
The text is well
written because it provokes the reader to think out side the normal frame of
reference. Dillard allows the reader to draw their own conclusion and, simultaneously
leads the reader into drawing the conclusion she wants. She accepts that death
and suffering are apart of the Napo Valley culture when she states “It ha given
up ; now it will die(Dillard, 149).” She also draws a subtle distinction that
the deer trapped in the rope continued to struggle for its life but the man considered ending his own after
being burned twice. I feel she was make the point know that blaming God for
ones fait does no create a desired affect on the human psyche.
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