2 Dillard’s writing style in the essay serves to —

Explanation:

The Norton Sampler begins by featuring two essays that provide a glimpse of the writing process as it unfolded for Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard. Dillard's writing serves two important purposes that can be helpful for the novice writer; her "Moth" essay are the kind of wonderful writing that is both enjoyable to read and interesting to dissect, as it were, in order to think about the writing process. In the second essay, Dillard reveals for us writing process at work, its fundamental ties to both her own personal history and circumstances and to her active and diligent devotion to the hard work of writing. The essays below supplement these essays with more examples of her writing and information about her life, as well as reviews that help us to look at her writing, and perhaps our own with a critical eye.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

it wants you to read whatever it gave you. then compare it to the others you read. you need to use textual evidence, and cite anything you do!

hope this !

~courtney