Signatures : Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Описание: 1)What is the sight that continues to amuse Dillard? The frogs would hide somewhere and jumped over our feet and Splash into the water. . We would yell in the panic obviously. For the narrator it is always an amusement.
2) How does the giant water bug attack the frog? The giant water bug is really the name of the creature which is an enormous heavy bodied brown bug. It's grasping forelegs are mighty and hooked inward. It eats insects, tadpoles, fish and frogs. It seizes a victim with these legs, hugs it tight, and paralyzes it with enzymes injected during vicious bite.
3) what is the usual method of devouring their prey by carnivorous animals?
Some carnivorous animals eat their prey alive. The common way of defeat the prey ia to down or grasp and eating at the whole., or in a series of bloody bites. Frogs eat everything whole stuffing prey into mouths by their tongues which is sticky.
4) What is the shrinking frog compared to?
Annie Dillard compared the shrinking of frogs to a deflating football.
5) what is Pascal's observation about God?
Pascal uses a nice term to describe the notion of the creator. The term
Deus Absconditus is a Latin phrase means the hidden God.
6) What is Einstein's concept of God and nature?
Einstein describes god as subtle but not malicious. He says that nature conceals by means of the essential grandeur not by cunning.
7) What question regarding the creator of the universe is appreciated by Dillard?
Dillard believes that god has not absconded but spread as a fabric of spirit very subtly and we can only feel blindly of its hem. She wonders, however, if our consciousness has evolved to that point.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek refers to Annie Dillard and her quest—a pilgrimage, or spiritual journey—to understand God through the natural phenomena she witnesses at Tinker Creek. Rather than go to a shrine or holy city, as religious people have done for centuries, she goes to the creek running through her own backyard. She sees the creek as a bearer of light, by which she means knowledge. This knowledge is not scientific fact or the product of analytic thought. Rather it represents the kind of mystical, experiential knowledge, impossible to express with words and thus a symbol for the mystery of God. In  the  opening paragraph  of  the  excerpt, she  begins with the  common  experience  regarding the  frogs  and  their  invisible  positions.  The  frogs  would  hide  s omewhere  and  jumped  over  your feet  and  splash  into  the  water.  We  would  yell  in  the  panic  obviously.  For  the  narrator,  it  is  always an  amusement.  She  even  observes  the  changes  in  texture  of  the  light  reflected  from  the  mud  bunk, water  ,  grass  or  frog    The  frog  looks  like  a  schematic  diagram  of  amphibian.  When  she  keep closer,  the  frog  begins  to  shrink  like  a  deflating  football.    Suddenly  the  frog,  she  saw  was  being sucked  by  a  giant  water  bug.     She  describes  how  does  water  bugs  eat  their  prey.  These descrip tions  make  us  think  about  how  the  biological  cycle  of  this  organic  world  has  created  in such a  manner. Then  she  gives  the  minute  details  of  the  eating  style  of  animals.  There  are  different methods of  eating  by  animals. Some  carnivorous  animals eat  their  pr ey  alive. The  common way  of defeat  the  prey  is  to  down  or  grasp,  and  then  eating  at  the  whole,  or  biting.  Frogs  stuff  their  preys on the  tongue,  which is sticky. These  small  wonders  in  nature  drive  her  thought  to    God  and  his  creations.  She  quotes from  the Koran  to  talk  about  the  creation.  In  the  Koran,  Allah  asks  "The  heaven  and  the  earth  and all  in  between,  thinkest  thou  I  made  them  in  jest?"She  invites  our  attention  to  the  very  act  of creation  and  the  existence  of  God.  The  term  ‘Deus  Absconditus’  was  use d  by  Blaise  Pascal,  one of  the  greatest  Christian  apologists  ,  physicist  and  writer,  to  describe  the  notion  of  the  creator.  It  is a  Latin  phrase  means  the  hidden  God.    Einstein  describes  God  as  subtle,  but  not  malicious.  He says  that  ‘nature  conceals  her  m ystery  by  means  of  her  essential  grandeur  not  by  her  cunning'. For  Einstein, God was a  metaphor  for  nature  and  natural  order. Dillard  believes  that  God  has  not  absconded  but  spread  as  a  fabric  of  spirit  very  subtly  and we  can  only  feel  blindly  of  its hem.    She  wonders,  however,  if  our  consciousness  has  evolved  to that  point. The horrific death of the frog is vividly  described by Dillard . She encounters the frog at Tinker Creek and wonders why it doesn't leap away as she approaches. While she watches, the frog crumples to death in a matter of minutes, its skull and skin collapsing as a giant water bug literally sucks.....

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