Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, Harper Perennial Modern Classics New York,NY:1974 1/2

Before I begin I'd like to note that for some reason, as I read the book, I kept thinking the writer was male. I kept wanting to call her him and I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe it's her style of writing. I'm not use to reading a book with so much description of surroundings. Some parts I found boring, but I got through it. Getting through the first chapter was the hardest for me, but once I did it got a little better. Dillard sees the world as something we can never fully comprehend. The reason we can't comprehend it is because we aren't equal with nature. We aren't equal with all the animals. Of course this happened because of Adam and Eve. She wonders how we would view the world if they didn't obtain the knowledge that God had. That's another thing she puts into place a lot, biblical references. Her main thing on religion seems to be of course the Earth was created by some higher being, look at how complex it is. This book makes me think, it makes me wonder what it would feel like to be blind, to be equal with animals. Not every one can observe and get the beauty of nature over all. The complexity of it is fascinating. Being human, we can only try to understand what we see, what's really happening.What really caught my eye was the thing on cataracts. It must e cool to not be able to see and after surgery you see everything. i never thought that they wouldn't know what things are, that they would be comfortable with their disability that they wouldn't like being "normal" when they first opened their eyes. I like the way they would describe colors and things because they hadn't grown up learning it. I wonder how exactly you would end a book like this, the chapters are labeled as seasons or an adjective describing a part of nature. Maybe she'll end with a season.