This event teaches Dillard that her imagination is a tool under her command which she can manipulate and command to create a world beyond the one she was living in.
For example, the reader learns of Dillard’s experience with a fictional monster in her room that was, in reality, a shadow cast by light from a passing car.
These anecdotes are not presented as a day to day account of Dillard’s childhood, but rather have an impressionistic edge to them, with each anecdote playing an important role in the development of the characters and storyline. An American Childhood lacks a solid, continuous plot, and is presented as a series of anecdotes.
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