Annie Dillard "Total Eclipse" Purpose Discussion Period 6

As you write, try to consider the impact of the text on a reasonable, inquisitive audience. We can't know what the author thought, but we can understand ideas, meaning, emotions, purposes established by her words.

• Annie Dillard explained an event in “Total Eclipse” that had a significant impact on her and how it changed the ways that she viewed life, trying to get the audience to think about their own idea of how life is viewed
• In her writing, “Total Eclipse”, Annie DIllard was trying to recreate an experience she had with a solar eclipse. Although her purpose may have been to inform the audience of what seeing an eclipse is equivalent to, she also made it evident that her thoughts were changed about humans and life in general.
• Annie Dillard writes Total Eclipse in an attempt to compare the human experience against the weight of meaning that lies within the occurrence of an Eclipse.
• In the passage “Total Eclipse” by Annie Dillard, she describes a major event her life that makes her think about the way human life
• Anne Dillard  used the total eclipse to describe how that experience changed her perspective on her own life to get across to the reader how little experiences such as that can dramatically change a person’s perspective on their lives
• Annie Dillard writes the piece, “Total Eclipse,” in order to engage the audience with an anecdote of the solar event, meanwhile leaving them to ponder human existence and death.
• The purpose of this piece is to persuade the reader to not take life for granted through her own reflection and mistakes.
• Annie Dillard created a task of getting the reader to understand the small aspects and details of her life by comparing them to the solar eclipse with a hint of mystery and death. She accomplished this by opening the reader up to hear her thoughts and feel her pain.
• The Purpose of Annie Dillard’s piece, “Total Eclipse”, is to change reader's opinion about their own existence and see how they take different things in life for granted by describing her experience with a total eclipse.
• In Annie Dillard,” Total Eclipse”, she presents her unique perspective on an event in her life and how it affected her view on the world after this event. This piece shows her emotions throughout this experience such as the joy she felt on her way into the mountains, and the awed fear she felt when she saw the eclipse.
• The purpose of Annie Dillard’s piece is to describe her thoughts and emotions during the solar eclipse that she witnessed
• Annie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse” draws the reader into a world without familiarity or comfort, a world comparable to death. Her article illustrates the fragility and insignificance of human perceptions of the universe against a vast and unpredictable void of nothingness.