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Comparing Sky Tree And Living Like Weasels

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From “Living Like Weasels”, by Annie Dillard, To “The Sky Tree” by the Huron Tradition, these separate texts and the times they have been told have a lot of things in common. They represent each other on how these two really different text styles the perform in. The first text is “Living Like Weasels”, by Annie Dillard. One day she was sitting by a pond and enjoying nature. Then she looked down and saw a weasel. when they locked eyes the both froze and they were in each other's minds for sixty seconds. “Wow that was incredible”, then she was sitting there thinking after the weasel left and from amazement to anger, I should have gone for the throat”.(Dillard paragraph 11 and 12) This is what she thought about what happened that day. Weasels

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