Thursday, January 13, 2011

An American Childhood -- Annie Dillard

1.       Explains how she learned how to tackle in football.
2.       Explains why Annie and boys threw snowballs in the winter.
3.       Describes the scene of where they threw snowballs at cars.
4.       Describes the boys that she was with.
5.       Describes the cars and snow.
6.       Describes Annie’s ice ball.
7.       Explains how they threw the snowballs at the Buick.
8.       Describes the snowball on the window of the car.
9.       Narrates the guy getting out of his car.
10.   Describes the man who was chasing after them.
11.   Explains who split up to get away from the man.
12.   Describes the route they took to get away from the man.
13.   Explains why she needed to know how to tackle in football.
14.   Explains that no matter where the kids ran, the guy would follow.
15.   Describes where the man caught them.
16.   Describes everyone and the setting at which they finally got caught.
17.   Describes how Annie felt after running a long ways.
18.   Explains how the man is feeling about the kids.
19.   Explains what he said to the kids.
20.   Explains how the man could only chew them out.
21.   Explains how she put up a good effort to not get caught.
In the first paragraph, Annie talks about the right way to tackle a person in football. The only way to successfully tackle someone is do it passionately and with full force. That lesson that she had learned from this football experience would help her later in life.
When the man came running after the children, Annie never thought that they were going to get caught. However, when the man started to catch up to them, they knew that they were trapped.  After the man yelled at them, Annie did not focus on what he had just told her. Instead she focused on the fact that he had never given up on finding them. She compared it with her football lesson “that you have to fling yourself at what you’re doing; you have to point yourself, forget yourself, aim, dive”. Now Annie had learned that it is not only in football that you need to do everything possible to accomplish ones goal.

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