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are represented both in the natural world and in the defining views of mankind. But at the same time, life and death are inextricable from the progression of a
vision of nature, and all three authors pursue nature as a means of discovering the elemental justice in death. Annie Dillards "Heaven and Earth in Jest" excerpted from Pilgrim at
Tinker Creek (New York, Harper and Row, 1974) is a work that reflects the implications of life and death represented in nature. Dillard begins this piece of short prose
by describing her mornings and being awaken by footprints of her cat marked in blood. This initial vision of the relationship between the predator and the prey is ultimately
connected in Dillards work to the elements that in the end lead to the belief that this natural process is fundamental to the cyclical nature of mans existence. Dillards
reactions of acceptance and the recurrent nature of the cats behaviors are related to the same kind of repetition presented in nature and culminated in Dillards reflections of life and
death. Dillard presents a view of her narrators perspective on the consumption of a frog by a large water beetle and this becomes the point at which she is able
to shape a justification for death. Recognizing that life and death are so closely linked that the single bit of a water beetle can result in the melting of
a frog into nothingness is one of the fascinating points that she brings to light when considering the tenuousness of life. Dillard writes: "That one bite is the
only bite it ever takes. Through the puncture shoots the poisons that dissolve the victims muscles and bones and organs--all but the skin--and through it the giant water bug
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