There are more than 7 billion people in the world. Each of those 7 billion people have a different point of view. In the passage, Audubon is a sophisticated man who speaks scientifically. In contrast to Annie Dillard, who sounds more on the side of a free spirit type of person. Their tone and vocabulary that each writer uses continuously shows the difference between the two styles of writing. John James Audubon writes his observation as if it were being inserted into a scientific journal. Audubon accounts his encounter with the birds very precisely. He is very descriptive in his introduction to be sure that the reader is aware of exactly when and where he spotted the birds. The Audubon recalls his interaction by speaking in scientific descriptions like when he tells the reader about “pigeons flying from north-east to south-west.” This is an observation that an average person may not take the time to realize or record. Other pieces of his description, like were he tells about how the birds “descended and swept close over the earth …show more content…
When recounting and recording her experience of the birds, she uses words like “a speck” when describing one of the first birds she had noticed. She usual casual, but fun and easy going vocabulary when telling her readers about the tremendous flock of birds. Dillard goes on to describe the birds as “transparent and whirling, like smoke,” and that they made a sound “like a million shook rugs.” Dillard’s way of thinking is more outside of the box, but also filled with everyday things. The way she compares the noise she heard to “shook rugs” shows a level of oddness, but also very normal because it is something that virtually everyone would know, but nobody would think of. Dillard’s artistic, free-spirited tone is also found in the way that she describes herself as “bashed by the unexpectedness of this beauty,” referring to the way she was amazed at the