I had hit pay dirt. For all I knew, there were paramecia, too, in that pond water, or daphniae, or stentors, or any of the many other creatures I had read about and never seen: volvox, the spherical algal colony; euglena with its one red eye; the elusive, glassy diatom; hydra, rotifers, water bears, worms. Anything was possible. The sky was the limit. s selection is taken from Annie Dillard's memoir called An American Childhood, which is a larger piece of writing. What is the function of last paragraph of this selection? O It shows her excitement for having finally seen an amoeba. It concludes a section of Dillard's memoir as it relates to the beginning of her pursuit of one of her interests. It previews what Dillard would go on to accomplish as an adult. It explains how Dillard felt about her parents' apparent indifference to her excitement about the microscope.​