In “The Art of the Essayist,” A. C. Benson paints a kind of portrait of the essayist as an “interpreter of life, a critic of life” (43), with special predilections for and orientations toward lived experience and human relations. With Benson’s ideas about the essayist in mind, a passage from Annie Dillard’s “Total Eclipse” that stands out as particularly evocative begins “At once the yellow light made the sky blue again; the black lid dissolved and vanished. The real world began there. I remember now: we all hurried away.” I chose this passage because it emphasizes the moment the eclipse ended and reality was restored. Dillard begins as someone who rushed towards nature, expecting to witness an eclipse, with her husband. But as the eclipse begins, she becomes amazed at the new world she saw. She realizes that beyond their ordinary lives, lies another world. The experience proved that she was unobservant of nature and human life around her. Dillard mobilizes the essayist’s “art” as a spectator of life when she is viewing the world around her change underneath the moonlight. The colors of silver and black around the world opens her eye to something she would have never noticed before. Dillard use of her own experience during the eclipse helps connect the readers to an attraction of nature. By observing a new world, Dillard teaches her readers to interpret life, analyse life and recreate it to reflect themselves in their writing. Something I will take away from Dillard’s way of seeing the world as I develop opening for my own essay is writing my essay does not have to be a long technical or ethical speech instead it should reflect senses of human life. My essay should be something which can provide solutions to problems readers deal with daily and their relationships with others.