Resumo de Pilgrim At Tinker Creek

Also categorized in the genre of History writing and more popularly Nature writing this is an all time classic. It is simply beautiful in its imagery, compelling in its authenticity and educational in its delivery.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a very moving account of a woman's journey through, among other things, spiritual soul searching and acceptance. Drawing on deep personal experience, diverse and in-depth reading, and non-confrontational biblical intimation, Dillard exposes her soul and invites the reader to join, through her eyes, her spiritual exploration. This spiritual quest of self-discovery ultimately changed her life and is presented in this book, albeit possibly disguised and cryptic at times - in the form of nature writing, as a unique narrative of showing rather than telling the story - which as any writer knows is the basic rule of thumb for any successful outcome.

Regarding the actual presentation, there are numerous examples of sentences, paragraphs and complete pages that show Dillard's complex yet paradoxically simple narrative. The collage of words, their formations, and the building of unique structural complicity tease and captivate the reader. Using color, sights and sounds with such graphic detail she encourages you to feel the spider's web, see the stars, climb out onto the log bridge and get lost in the moments right along with her.

Dillard introduces a poetic rhythm and carefully composed syntax in her writing and with parallels to both the Bible and Tolstoy; she beckons you to follow her from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph and deep into the depth of her narration. In her own classic style she all but paints you a picture of how she learns to let go of her mental chatter in order to see from her soul rather than from he eyes of the ego; a new sight that reveals the impact of her literary intelligence.

One of the most revealing insights is when Dillard eludes to her spiritual confusion... "I stood on a humped rock on nearby Purgatory Mountain ... I discovered that I was in danger of joining the hawks." An incredible combination of imagery and metaphor.

This is the flavor and essence of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Imagery is the essential ingredient and she continues to dish it up serve after satisfying serve. She allows the reader to discern for themselves what is analogy and what is truth; whether an event actually took place, or if it is a clever manipulation - uniting words to such perfection that it no longer matters what is fact or what could be fiction.

A perfect tryst appears when she refers to mental images she has of three perfectly happy people. There is just a hint of allegory for the sages, mentors and gurus that crossed her path during her personal and internal pilgrimage. History tells that she consciously balked from her traditional religious upbringing for a time and it was a priest, whose argument he based on C. S. Lewis, who enticed her back. In her own words, she confessed that like a blind man at a ballgame... she needed a radio. I believe this is Dillard's concession that she needed these 'specialists', as she referred to them.

Dillard draws on amoebae and Andromeda to highlight the vast difference in size between herself and God - humans and the universe - leaving the reader in awe of their own humble place in the scheme of things.

On an emotional level the imagery uses a tone that permits the reader the opportunity to rely on their sight to provoke deeper feelings and give himself or herself permission to get in touch with themselves; the journey loses human shackles and the spiritual transition becomes less clouded.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is not only an account of a period in a woman's life but also a grouping of life experiences threaded into a whole. Reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, without knowing the author, the reader may see a beautifully written story of childhood experiences and adventure; however, arming themselves with the author's biograsolds into a descriptive dialogue of deep insight and awakening of revelation and spiritual growth. As she says,? to really see, one needs to get up close and person

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