In lines 24–49, Dillard juxtaposes images of nature with evidence of human habitation. Explain how these lines relate to her overall purpose.
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Dillard juxtaposes images of nature
Explanation:
Dillard describes the constructed universe as the world created by the human brain and consciousness, a world of past and future consciousness. Human beings know, and prepare. They're making decisions. We construct
In comparison, Dillard describes the natural world as unplanned and as living in an everlasting sense of self. It is exemplified by the weasel's mind. With a declaration and a question, Dillard opens the essay:
“A weasel is wild. Who knows what he's thinking?”
She shares that she has learned from an experience with Weasel.
She says first:
From the weasel she knows it doesn't think so. Everything always is. It lives with "purity" and "dignity" because it does not think: it has no "motive" for what it does to survive beyond the need. It's normal, and not built.
In comparison to Thoreau, who had come to Walden Pond to learn how to live, she says she wants to know how to forget.