Terwilliger Bunts One

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Follow the link below and read the excerpt from An American Childhood, a memoir written by Annie Dillard. As we move through a discussion and a study of memoirs and writers of memoirs, consider the rhetorical strategies Dillard and other memoirists use to establish purpose, set tone, and control mood.

Answer the questions that follow the memoir by posting a new thread on this board. I suggest you work on this a little bit each night rather than putting it off until Thursday evening when it is due. Also, another suggestion: work on this in Word or some other word processing software. This should help to prevent any simple spelling and grammatical errors, thus also preventing Sadaf from making any comments that might be seen as deleterious.

Please reply to at least one classmate as well. For the purposes of this homework, you need only reply to one of your classmates, as there are a number of questions that you will be exploring in reference to Dillard's piece. Remember that a strong response to a classmate will be substantive, not vapid or superficial.

Posting due: Thursday, March 5th; Reply due: Saturday, March 9th.

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[StacyAnn]

Purpose and Meaning

Annie Dillard’s mother was fascinated by words and their different uses. Annie Dillard, who grew up to be a writer, seems to have in some way inherited her mother’s love for words because she now writes and can express herself in a descriptive and rhetorical fashion. Her mother’s influence can be seen when Dillard describes the building of the Tamiami Trail. Her descriptiveness and awareness seems characteristic of her mother, yet she uses detail and a play on words in order to describe the process.

Language was very important in the Dillard household. Dillard’s mother was amused when she found a phrase that sounded unique or unheard of, it placed Annie in a position, with her mother being the kind of person she was, of always being painstakingly aware of the words she used and how she expressed or announced herself. Language separated Annie Dillard’s mother from the rest of society in that she could always pull a fast one on people, like when she asked her surgeon whether or not she would be able to play the piano after the operation, or when she went up to the unexpected young man and put questions into his girlfriend’s head about their relationship. The essay reflected how language was continually present in Dillard’s childhood and how, when she finally grew up, she realized why her mother was so persistent in recognizing and correcting clichéd ideas.

Dillard’s thesis reflects that language is an important part of life and that it makes us who we are and is a part of our memories in an important way.

Language and Style

When one says these phrases, the mouth moves in an unusual fashion. Just saying “Terwilliger bunts one” makes the mouth more active than it usually is when pronouncing other everyday words.

The use of these and other descriptive word gives life to Dillard’s writing by effectively describing, using a play on words, how she imagined the long trail being built. Another place in which she uses this method is when she writes about her mother’s mischief while playing board or card games. Dillard describes how she would “bid slams for the devilment of it, or raise[d] her opponents' suit to bug them, or showed her hand, or tossed her cards in a handful behind her back in a characteristic swift motion accompanied by a vibrantly innocent look. It drove our stolid father crazy.” She uses words like “devilment” and “stolid,” and phrases like “vibrantly innocent.”
Dillard is painstakingly specific because she wants to effectively express to her reader how she experienced these events. When she talks about the eccentricities of her mother she describes how she used to lick the corner of an envelope to place a stamp because she didn’t like the taste of stamps, and how she would glue sandpaper to the sides of kitchen drawers, and under kitchen cabinets, so she always had a handy place to strike a match. Dillard’s specificity most likely came from her mother’s constant questioning of her thoughts. She uses imagery and details to create a humorous tone.

Strategy and Structure

This shows that Dillard’s mother was an intellectual. This effectively compliments the characteristics that her mother possessed; her questioning of authority, her passion for original thought. Her mother seemed to be a prevalent force in Dillard’s life and serves well as a model because it is because of her mother why Dillard is able to think the way she does and write the way she does because she realized that her mother was trying to teach her an important lesson by constantly questioning and rarely following the rules.

Her mother remains nameless throughout the story, I think, because Dillard thinks of her mother as a series of events in which language was prevalent and in which her mother was the main cause of this. The reader, in turn, gets the idea that Annie’s mother was probably unlike anyone they ever met in that she had a unique way of looking at things.

She wants people to remember this because this is what she got out of her mother’s unique view of language. She finally realized, when she grew older, that her mother had a reason for always asking her of her own opinion. She wants the readers to also get this out of her memoir because it was an important aspect for her and her experiences with her mother.

Thinking and Writing

Annie writes in a way that mimics her mother’s appreciation of language

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