Reading in An American Childhood An Unparalelled Influence In her memoir An American Childhood Annie Dillard conveys to her readers her deep love of reading For Dillard reading and the pursuit of knowledge are what make the world go round Dillard even states that she reached the point where she was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard 183 Dillards love for reading is demonstrated time and time again It would be a difficult task for her readers to find a section that has
Annie Dilliards The Chase is a chapter from her autobiography An American Childhood In The Chase Dillard guides us through a childhood memory which leaves her trapped exhausted and terrified As a child Annie was what some call a tomboy The neighborhood boys taught her how to play football and baseball She enjoyed the strategy of football especially when she was able to fool the guys on the other team Annie was a bit younger than the neighborhood boys were she was not more than seven and the boy
Private life book life took place where words met imagination with passing through world On pages 120 and 121 Dillard talks about reading books she talks about the extent that she reads to and what happens when she does that This is the perfect example of one of the functions of reading shown throughout the book learning from books and using the imagination Dillard reads a book and takes in new knowledge She then uses her imagination to apply what she has learned to then create an imaginary wor