In Annie Dillard's "The Chase" she starts by detailing how she participated in sports in her neiborhood. She insists that no girl activities could compare to the thrill and excitement that she got of playing boys sports. In the wintertime there were not any sports that they could play, so they threw snowballs. On one morning doing their everyday winter ritual of throwing snowballs at cars they did not know it then but they had met their match. After hitting a man's car with snowballs they got into the chase of their lives. The man chasing them was not any ordinary adult that would just run for a block to scare the kids and then stop. He was determined for what the kids did not know and were not trying to find out. The man was persistent making every move the kids made, until he finally caught them. Annie Dillard was ex
Though I do not read very much because with most books I lose attention very fast or I get lost from different ways narratives jump to topics, "The Chase" kept my attention the entire time. The suspense and drama intrigued me from start to finish. And the details and play-by-play action was the tool for me not getting lost in the story. This narrative was written well and I will use this narrative to help me on my own assignments.
The way Annie Dillard keeps the reader on their feet always guessing is amazing. Through the entire chase she had me wondering were the kids going to get caught? And if they were what was going to happen to them? From the way she described how they hit the car to the way the man started chasing them to the way they were caught, I was left guessing and even making my own predictions of the ou
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