The Chase written by Annie Dillard

The Chase
What is the most important thing in your life? Love, or family? I think my family is the most important value to me. However, I never thought it seriously. According to Annie Dillard’s “The Chase,” she said to me that each individual has his own personal values and tries to do best mentally and physically to get it. There’re a lot of personal values in childhood and these values tend to change differently depending on the individuals when they grow up.
I think one of Annie Dillard’s values in childhood represented in this essay is excitement, this value, the excitement, is changed to sociality, and that is because she learned the rule or law to obey in the society. First, one of Annie Dillard’s values in childhood is excitement obtained by doing something regardless of fair or unfair. I think most children pursue just the excitement by doing something such as playing football, or baseball, but they don’t care whether it was fair or unfair to do it. For example, Annie Dillard and her friends in childhood liked to throw snowballs at passing cars in her essay. Second, her value changed the excitement into the sociality through running with a driver. I think the sociality means people think more importantly the relationship between others and they have to obey the social rules for the sociality. When she was running away from him first, she was doing it for her life. However, she realized and felt another excitement to obey the rule and concentrate on her soul and body during the game with him. Third, her value changed the excitement into the sociality because she realized the importance of the social rule. Actually, when she and her friends threw snowballs, they didn’t care it was fair or unfair to do it at passing cars. Fortunately, she realized there’re rules to obey in a game such as running and she gains true excitement when she plays a game obeying the rule through a driver’s chasing. For example, she said “We all played by the rules,” and she really felt excitement and then respected him by saying “sainted man,” or “our hero” because he was true winner by the rule in the chase.