After reading “Seeing,” select one sentence from Dillard’s piece. It should be one that you find interesting, memorable, or essential in the essay. Then write a 350-450 word exploration or analysis of it that does the following:
1.) Accurately reproduces (directly quotes) the sentence with a page number.
2.) Explains why this sentence is interesting or essential and how it fits into Dillard’s essay as a whole. To do this, you may wish to consider some of these questions: What about it is noteworthy or attention-getting or necessary? How does it work in the essay? For example, does it provide an introduction to a topic? Open up a new angle on a topic already discussed? Show how the author thinks? Complicate our notions about something? Offer a poetic meditation or encapsulate an worthwhile idea? Build an essential piece of the structure? Establish a key image? Make an argument? Open up a new way of thinking for you? If the latter, what thoughts does it spark?
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