Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Chapter Five

10-15 Things that I learned from "Pilgrim at Tinder Creek" by Annie Dillard:

Chapter Five: Untying the Knot

1.  This chapter still takes place in February.

2. I wonder how come the first sentence in every chapter is italicized.

3. In the beginning of the chapter, Dillard kinda goes back to the beauty is pain theme.

4. Dillard used a simile on page 74, "the skin had been pulled inside-out like a peeled sock for several inches".

5. Dillard used another simile on page 74, "wrinkles, looking exactly like a knot".

6. Dillard also used a simile on page 76, "the earth absorbs and releases heat slowly, like a leviathan breathing".

7. Dillard used a list on page 77, "trapped, slowed, grasped, fetched, peeled, or aimed:.

8. I learned what a hooped snake is.

9. Some themes in Chapter Five are wheels, circles eternity, and the continuity of time.

10. I learned who Nebuchadnezzar is.

• Wheels, circles eternity, continuity of time