"White Rabbit" - Holly Keith

In White Rabbit, Holly Keith demonstrates a theme of empowerment through being alone and forging a path for oneself. She emphasizes this theme by stating how dangerous it is to hike alone in the mountains, during the winter but continues to do so anyways. Keith describes how traveling alone allows your mind and body to go places you wouldn't have gone with the presence of another person or a group of people. In the piece, Keith uses contrasting elements to emphasize her preparedness on the hike, "They look at me with cold curiosity. I look at them with warm feet." She also uses a hyperbole to describe the feeling of being alone atop the mountain, "As I step above tree line and into the wind, I laugh. It's the laughter of having the world to myself." Holly Keith uses this piece to encourage going into the void alone and seeing what happens as it can be freeing and rewarding, only if one is prepared.