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The weasel described through the essay is used as an analogy. Annie Dillard, the author, encourages the reader to live their life like a weasel; freely and by instinct. Live a life that you would want to grasp onto with all your might at every moment. In other words, live a life you would never want to give up. Dillard describes the weasel's tenacious way of life when she describes how: "The man could in no way pry the tiny weasel off, and he had to walk half a mile to water, the weasel dangling from his palm, and soak him off like a stubborn label."(Pg.1)

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Annie Dillard has a passionate tone toward how the weasels live in nature. She quickly makes the connections between her own life and the weasels. She concludes; to live her best life she needs to "yield"(pg.13) at life's moments and suggests to the reader that she believes "it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you."(pg.14) The passion Dillard has consistently through the essay amplifies clarity to the topic and message.

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Freedom, and the desire of it, is a natural theme that comes with the essay. "A weasel lives as he’s meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity."(pg.13) The weasel represents a free soul-- one with no expectations by others, bound only by its own drive to survive.

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"The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should." (Pg.11) The ambition to live as freely and determined as a weasel is a constant theme and purpose of the essay.

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Dillard communicates the importance of living for one's self. "We could, you know. We can live any way we want."(pg. 13) The author is showing how the weasels have opened her eyes to the world with a new perspective. She is rubbing this new perspective off onto the reader through the essay. Her style is quiet descriptive-- filled with imagery. The depth of description used portrays nature to on a deeper level to the reader.