![]() ![]() You have to point yourself, forget yourself, aim, dive (par. This theme is put into words when the author describes how during the chase he realizes “…an immense discovery, pounding into my hot head with every sliding, joyous step, that this ordinary adult evidently knew what I thought only children who trained at football know: that you have to fling yourself at what you’re doing. ![]() It is the idea of carrying through a challenge or task that she is facing at the moment with fervor and conviction, of forgetting everything for the sake of the goal however little or even stupid it might seem to others. Dillard’s essay An American Childhood relives a moment in the author’s past which she could not forget as the particular event stirs a certain kind of awareness within her something that she still carries and that continues to affect her even as an adult. ![]()
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