Summary Of Holy The Firm By Annie Dillard

Do you have any books that you cannot pull it down until you finish the last page? “Holy the Firm” One of the impressive books written by Annie Dillard the famous American author is one of books that gives a profundity in the meaning of the world, creating, and life. The book which as a diary of the author is used 3 days to write when Dillard lived alone in a small peaceful cabin near the ocean. The book which shows a suffering, beauty and purity of things gives us to go beyond a truth of the nature in short 3 parts Newborn and Salted, God’s Tooth, and Holy the Film. Firstly, Newborn and Salted is a part of suspicion and procreation. The first part of this charter is suspicion. She isolates herself to read the book and find out the

Dillard tells a story on November 19 about one seven years old girl name Julie Norwich. She is a passenger of an airplane which falls down and smashes in the woods (Dillard 36). The fuel explodes and burns Julie’s face. She and her father are sent to the hospital. Her face is burned in untreatable degree (Dillard 37). Dillard has a question that why this terrible thing has to happen with the little girl who do not know anything. Dillard meets with Julie once on two week ago at the apple farm. They were picking apple, making cider, playing game, and sing a song. Dillard keep her eye on Julie when she is playing with Small, her cat. Julie dress up the cat like a nun and try to learn to whistle. Julie is a girl who should grow up like a beautiful flower, but why the bad thing happens with her. Why god do not help her or protect her. She is a little girl who has no chance to use her time in happy life. She never knows how to whistle. She never knows how to kiss or be kissed by a man who she loves, but now she does not have that mouth to kiss anyone. What is a god today? What is god do for today? The day that has no hope, and no wish is today, or today is not the day of Julie and god anymore. “that day’s god has no power. No gods have power to save… abandoned us to the gods of days” (Dillard 43). Moreover, the story above makes us to think about the time of life. How much time in your life? Do you know the date you will gone? Do you

On November 20, this is the last destination of the way to find out the answer for her questions. Although, god abandons a little girl, Dillard still believes in god, and believe in the day of gods. She still finds out the answer of something that is a nature, or substance, or spirit called the Absolute. It is something lower than all minerals, salt, metals, or the things that everyone on the earth known. She still finds out “Holy the firm” the thing that connect between god, creation, and Christ. However, this concept is same with Buddhism. People who believe in Buddhism also find out the way to blow out the suffering. The way is called nirvana. It is about how to find the way to go to the life after this world, knowing about a cause of the suffering, and the way to avoid and go beyond the pain. Nirvana means to extinguish or blowing out (O’Brien). It is the way to get free from suffering. People who believe in Buddhism will find the way to go to the nirvana. People believe birth the way to the suffering. Stopping this suffer is find the way to nirvana and blow out everything. Finally, although we do not know the death of the moth, the suffering of the girl, and way to go to connect with the god, we still know more about gods and the day of gods. We still know about gods who make everything to be a beautiful in the way it could, gods who make Dillard to be a person who stand beside