10-15 Things that I learned from "Pilgrim at Tinder Creek" by Annie Dillard:
Chapter Eight: Intricacy
1. Dillard used a simile on page 126 "as deep as any alpine landscape".
2. The themes in Chapter Eight are elaborate extravagance, creation, and multiplicity of forms.
3. Another theme was that intricacy = mystery.
4. Dillard used colors to describe animals such as goldfish, rotifers, starlings, caterpillars, African Hercules beetles, and dragonflies.
5. I learned what fascicles meant.
6. Dillard also used a couple of art terms in this chapter.
7. I learned what an anaphora is and that Dillard used a couple of them to emphasize what she wanted to tell us that we are many things.
8. There was a good amount of lists in this chapter, one of them was on page 131 "thin, flat, rounded at the apex, the exposed portions(closed cone) reddish brown, often wrinkled, armed on the back with a small, reflexive prickle, which curves toward the base of the scale".
9. Again in this chapter, Dillard asks rhetorical questions.
10. She talks about her Ellery goldfish.
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