White Rabbit

The theme of "White Rabbit" is that your mind is the biggest obstacle to overcome in any journey. Keith mentions this towards the end of her essay, when she says, "What you need most is imagination, a willingness to step beyond the frame of the everyday to follow the rabbit." One piece of effective language use in her essay is the way she describes the silence of the mountains: "I stop and listen to nothing for as long as nothing lasts. Sometimes it's interrupted by a bird, or by my heartbeat." She also does a great job of building suspense before her descent from the summit: "The summit, the point you most want to get to, is the farthest you can be from safety."