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Annie Dillard, the author of Living Like Weasels uses thematic ideas to relate the weasel to human kind, and compares the instincts of a wild creature like a weasel to those of humans.

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While we might want to be viewed as strong and sometimes even convince ourselves that we are, people are just part of merciless nature, unwilling and uncontrolling to what might come. Althogh we might truly be as weak and small as weasel if we have the determination and persistence we might hold a firmer grasp on life, which we think, is what Annie Dillard meant.

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The author sees the weasel as this violent and feroricious creature but can easily be mistaken for a innocent creature, showing us that nature can fool you in its appearances.

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Annie Dillard the author shows the weasel is a persistent creature with an ironic strength despite their small size.

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Annie Dillard expresses her feelings for nature in a beautifully respectful way, she longs to admire her findings though she knows where to draw her line.

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Me and Orlando had thought that the contrast of people who respect nature and those is hate nature is what is obvious in this story.

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Anne Dillard shows she is protective and caring torwards the weasels she claims to understand in her story “Living like Weasels” as she constantly explains and defends nature. She convinces us of the violent acts they commit only to justify their purity by saying it is instinctive

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In  living like Weasels, Annie Dillard sends the message that humans separate from nature can work but once put together can cause great harm.

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The author Annie Dillard of the essay “Living like weasels” associates the details of dark violence, and meaningless rituals with the shift from weasels to man.

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The author depicts her admiration for nature’s instinctive power of violence,isolation,and persistance

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In the essay “living like weasels” by Annie Dillard it talks about how nature can be evil.

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ashley carlisle, makayla warren, paitlyn bevers

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ashley carlisle, makayla warren, paitlyn bevers

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In the article “Living Like Weasles” by Annie Dillard the author used a weasel as a representative to show how nature is not as innocent as it appears to be.

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The author Annie Dillard in “Living Like Weasels” is protective over nature and stands up for a weasel in the face of disrespectful humans.

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In Annie Dillard's Living like Weasels, the thematic idea could be that the violence in nature and the weasels behavior, can not be what it seems. Violence could not only be a negative thing, but it can bring the benefit of power as it did in the Weasels actions

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In Annie Dillard's Living like Weasels, the thematic idea could be that the violence in nature and the weasels behavior, can not be what it seems. Violence could not only be a negative thing, but it can bring the benefit of power as it did in the Weasels actions

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the strength of the weasel symbolizes power relating to how some who are powerful don’t matter

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In Living Like Weasels, the weasel considers himself to be above all nature and man, but we come to find that the author shows he’s just a nuisance.

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In “Living like weasels” the weasel has been perceived as a justified predator because he is sneaky and ruthless, but it’s his instinct.

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The author is standing up for the weasel, not letting anyone look down on it.

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Maia Johnson chance wagner Braden Williams Tucker taylor 

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Maia Johnson chance wagner Braden Williams Tucker taylor 

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The author outlines her admiration to nature s beauty in the passage.

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Throughout the course of “Living Like Weasels”, the author portrays nature to not be as innocent with violence which is justified with instinct.

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Rori Wesnitzer Gwendalynn Miller Nadia Santiago

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Rori Wesnitzer Gwendalynn Miller Nadia Santiago

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The authors thematic idea could possibly be that not all things are as it seems. Some things might not seem right, but it can be justified.

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The authors thematic idea is the control we have over nature/nature has over us is different for different people because certain people have different claims.

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The author wrote this passage to demonstrate the power and strength of the weasel.

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In ‘Living Like Weasels,’ the weasel considers himself to be above all nature and man, but we come to find that he’s just a nuisance.

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The weasel is as strong as a rattlesnake, but not important and just a creature of nature just like a “stubborn label” that is there just for show

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The author believes that the weasel is a deadly predator that can be ferocious, silent, wild, yet beautiful at the same time

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The weasel is a scared creature hiding in his den, but becomes obedient to his instinct once he is outside and becomes a ruthless killer.