Throughout their life, an individual will have encountered a range of people with different qualities that make up their personality. In general, people characterized as strong-willed are those who have initiative and take risks. Additionally, they deviate from normality by looking for something new, different, or other ways of doing things due to the tedious situations they find themselves in. As the philosopher David Hume stated two hundred and fifty years ago, unlike those who stray from the world of normality and clichés, most people continue their lives in a "dogmatic sleep...so trapped in conventional notions about almost everything that we see nothing of; we simply repeat what we have been told” (Rosenwasser 4). In the anecdotal piece “Terwilliger Bunts One,” Annie Dillard expressed her feelings and emotions towards her mother. Writing from a first person perspective, Annie Dillard also explains her mother's attitude to her audience through many different circumstances and anecdotes that Dillard revealed thus admiring her mother's personality when she was a child. By mentioning the qualities her mother possesses, she highlights the impact her mother had on her life through her parenting philosophy. The first parenting philosophy that Dillard's mother taught her is to be very expressive in everything, using surprising and strange words as part of observing others. As Dillard recalls in her story, this happened when her mother heard the radio announcer shout "Terwilliger Bunts one" and she began using that phrase as part of her "surprising string of syllables...for the next seven or eight years” (Dillard). ...... middle of article ...... of everyone else's opinion on this topic. The main idea of ​​the essay is to demonstrate the different ways in which Annie Dillard, the speaker, thinks about and admires her mother's personality and her qualities. This essay is not unusual because each daughter feels admiration and pride in her mother, even if she expresses her feelings in different ways. As the speaker says, she takes pleasure in describing her exceptional mother and is proud of the lessons her mother taught her. The style some mothers use to teach their children is always at the beginning of their life, leading them to success or failure. Works Cited Roberts, Tammy, et al. The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose. Broadview Press. 2002 Print. Rosenwasser, David, et al. Write analytically with readings. Thomson Nelson Press. 2003 Print.