Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: Chapter Three

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

Chapter Three: Winter

1. This chapter takes place in early February.

2. Like Chapter Two,  in Chapter Three Dillard used a lot of trappers, hunters, novelists, and other important people as a reference.

3. Dillard might have actually been a seamstress....because she compared a few types of fabrics to nature, especially animals.

4. Dillard enjoys puns.

5. On page 40, "mountains' bones poke through, all shoulder and knob and shin" it is a personification. 

6. On page 45, "the light is diffuse and hueless, like the light on paper inside on paper inside a pewter bowl" it is a simile.

7. Dillard uses sensory (sound) words on page 50, "it made a thin, metallic sound like foil beating foil".

8. The spider Dillard chose to use in her novel is an "Orb Weaving Spider". She might have chosen this spider because of its orb-like shape like a galaxy or something.

9. Dillard uses syntax on page 53, "things out of place are ill".

10. Dillard believes that humans should not have control over animals.