Blog Assignment #3

“The sky’s blue was deepening but there was no darkness.” (p287).  Annie Dillard and her husband were traveling across the state of Washington to see a total eclipse. Not many people can say they have experienced an eclipse; I am one of those people. Yet, Dillard has and you can tell from her descriptions how emotional she was from seeing it. They sky is always a beautiful shade of blue. When it rains the sky turns grey and sometimes when it snows. Yet here you can see the sky’s blue is turning even bluer but it is not becoming dark, which I think is odd. You can tell that Dillard is quite scared even though she is not coming out and saying it. “The sun was going and the world was gone” (p287). As the moon was overtaking the sun slowly the world was becoming darker and darker. I don’t think Dillard was prepared for such a magnificent event. She was very emotional while the world was becoming engulfed in darkness. She knew what an eclipse was she just didn’t know what to expect from it and you can tell by her reaction to everything that was going on that she was not at all ready for it. “It is now that the temptation is strongest to leave these regions. We have seen enough; let’s go. Why burn our hands any more than we have to?” (p288). All she wants to do at this point is leave and she compares to burning one’s hand, if your hand is burnt why burn it some more? She doesn’t want to stay in the area anymore because the eclipse had done something to her and she wanted out.  Much like the clown from the motel, just from her descriptive writing you can tell that she will never forget her experience with the eclipse and just reading her story alone I feel as if I experience the phenomenon also.

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