In the essay “The Deer at Providencia,” Annie Dillard illustrates her confusion and awareness of suffering that occurs around her in the world. Dillard begins the essay with explaining her trip to Ecuador, she and three other North Americans went on this trip. (MS 7) On this trip, Dillard realizes the suffering through a deer; thus, the meat of an animal begins to get tenderer the more you let it suffer. (MS 4) The village people tied up the deer so it gets tenderer, but in doing this they make it suffer. Dillard also experiences suffering through a burnt man. (MS 3) Throughout the essay, Dillard uses imagery, tone, and parallelism to describe her awareness and confusion about suffering. (MS 2)
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(MS 8) The man and the deer both undergo suffering. They were different types of suffering they were parallel to one another in relations to why they went through the pain. The first example of parallelism occurs when the dog chases the deer: “At any rate, I heard that the village dogs had cornered another deer just yesterday and it was this deer which we were now eating in full sight of the whole article.” This creates parallelism whit the man and how he burnt for the second time. These two things become parallel because they are both unfair. The also relate back to Dillard’s confusion to suffering because she needs to know why sufferings unfair. The confusion occurs because she wants to know why McDonald went through two burn experiences and why does she eat the deer in front of the other deer. Another example of parallelism occurs with the visualization Dillard provides. With the deer, Dillard gives striking visualization through the deer: “The deer lay ion its side at the rope’s very end, so the rope slacked slack to let it rest its head in the dust.” Then with the man, she explains him while she looks in the mirror: “Every morning for the past two years I have seen in that mirror, beside my sleep-softened face, the blackened face of a burnt man.” These both give striking visualizations. They relate back to the awareness of suffering because Dillard recognizes suffering through the visualizations. She sees the burnt man right after she looks at her non-suffering face and this makes her aware of his