blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free andseeing, we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save ourskins." (p.177)Dillard conveys here, that the world we are born into is constantly trying to erase us fromexistence. This proves to Dillard that we as humans mean nothing to nature. We are only small, tiny objects that take up space and do nothing for the earth. We survive primarily bydestroying eachother and even ourselves. Not to mention that if and when we do die,since only being such a small part, we would not individually be missed. Through all this,how then can there be a supreme being that is loving, caring and nurturing, when heconstructs living beings and creatures to destruct what lives and breathes around them? Dillard seems to desperately try to conjure up reasons to accept God and the wayhe has created his world, even though killing is an act he has designed." Of course, many carnivorous animals devour their prey alive. The usual method seems to be to subdue the victim by drowningor grasping it so it can't flee, then eating it whole or in a seriesof bloody bites. Frogs eat everything whole, stuffing prey into their mouths with their thumbs. People have seen frogs with their wide jaws so full of live dragonflies they couldn't close them. Antsdon't even have to catch their prey; in the spring they swarm over newly hatched, featherless birds in the nest and eat them tinybite by bite."Dillard wants to believe that a God who cares for the future of his creation, would notchoose to have his world destroyed. God should be a entity to look up to and thank for allthe good in the world, not to look down upon and be angry at for all the bad in the worldas well. She implies that finding God, the loving man that cares deeply for eachcreature and the world he has created, means to search for the true beauty in each andevery circumstance life has to offer. Whether it be a death or a birth, there will always be abeautiful visi...
