"Transfiguration" by Annie Dillard

"Next week, if there are signs of other bodies, he shrinks to gray and uses dust to crush the floor" (398)

"She burned for 2 hours without change, it did not bend or tilt, like a virgin of a flame, like a hollow saint, like a flame of a silhouette wall with a glimpse of the wall, inside only "Go to God" (399)

"Then I tried to tell them what this option had to mean: you can not do anything else, you must use weapons to pursue your life "(399)

In such a short article, Dillard talked about some very complex topics. On the surface, as the experience of life and the resultant emotional response are summed up to form the images projected outside us, the articles are easily compared with the changes we are experiencing Interestingly, moths may regard themselves as creatures devoting themselves to life, and through the other lens the moth becomes a food or light source. As tragedy devastates moths and fulfills various objectives in life, humans change fundamentally through intense and vivid experiences. Physical change is only a factor in Dillard's exploration. This article contains a spiritual suggestion that this spirituality is concentrated in the alternative form that our soul takes. The authors also pay attention to our sense of responsibility at these stages. Whatever the stage, we must find our own goals and pursue them with all our existence. Despite this goal setting, Dillard acknowledged that certain obligations may never be realized, because in her mourning for moth we can not often control our transformations It was. We are being moved by time and the world around us

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In her article "Transformation", Anne Dillard draws images of life, death, and destiny so that the reader can understand the relationship between the various elements of meaningful life. Throughout the article, Dillard enters abnormal details while describing ordinary things to convey her idea. By using the image of the candle, the wings of the ga suddenly disappears, the skeleton of Ga behaves like a core, and the author can incorporate the idea of ​​realizing the fate of life between life and death in the article I can do it. At the end of the work, the author believes that you can not thank life if you do not recognize the effects of death and destiny. The fact that the author always uses the image of the candle indicates that she is trying to emphasize the possibilities of life. Like a candle, life is a magical tool that inspires and burns others. However, if the focus disappears even for a moment, like a candle, life can disappear forever.

I read about Annie Dillard's "Transfiguration" and Bernard Cooper's "Labyrinthine", I thought about the balance of losses and benefits and the consequences of a mysterious life. This reminds me of a very simple and important aspect of my life - Christianity. Personally, this is a religious belief that I grew up. I have been a Christian for a long time before I remember it. I am a Christian like many others, but there is a struggle between loyal and faithful Christian lives and people who believe and participate in the church for existing reasons. I thought about my religion and the life of a missionary who died for God. The word Dillard said has had a big impact on me. I have never experienced such a terrible thing so far, so I think that there was no reason to do things in my life.

In "deformation" of Annie Dillard, moths are used to express the idea that each loss is commensurate with a particular interest. Dillard told about the moth jumping into her candle and burning the fire - the moth on fire resembles the "stubborn monk" (399) in the "red - yellow" robe. In 1963 Buddhist monks suicidized their robes to protest their treatment in Saigon. They sacrificed their lives, but in this dramatic manner, through self-destruction they directed the world's attention to their situation. Fire moth is not another dead insect, but plays another core in the candle and it burns for 2 hours until she blows it off. The moth experienced severe death, but the loss of its life was balanced with the light it emitted during the burn. I interpret this "light" as a new purpose to express "gentleness after the storm".