Analysis Of Annie Dillard's Untying The Knot

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When I was sixteen, I performed on the stage of Carnegie Hall. This is a very special memory to me. New York will always be in my mind because of that experience. What makes a place live on in one’s mind? The essay, Untying the Knot, as well as other selections from this unit demonstrate how experiences can make certain places live on in our memory. Untying the Knot is about the speaker going into a forest to witness the changing of the season. The speaker, Annie Dillard, finds a snakeskin tied in a knot. She attempts to untie it but then she realizes, “that I could no more catch the spring by the tip of the tail than I could untie the apparent knot in the snakeskin; there are no edges to grasp. Both are continuous loops” (Dillard 5). Annie

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