Summary Of Now The Sky To Indigo By Annie Dillard

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We have all had moments where we couldn't believe our eyes or were just in total awe of the moment that was beheld in front of us. For Annie Dillard, this came during a total eclipse in February 1979. We can see how the day turned to night, then turned back to day in the time it takes to make a bowl of cereal, and how the grass changes colors almost like a chameleon.

Annie Dillard had several moments of awe, but the first time she experienced this was when she noticed the sky changing colors. In paragraph two she stated “Now the sky to the west deepened to indigo, a color never seen. A dark sky usually loses color. This was a saturated, deep indigo.” In the same paragraph she tells how, “stuck up into that unworldly sky was the cone of Mount