Comparing The Bats And The Feathers

Linda Hogan is a Native American poet, storyteller novelist and so much more. Hogan was born in 1947. She is Chickasaw and her family moved around a lot because of the military. I decided to compare The Bats and The Feathers both by Linda Hogan. The three similarities I chose to compare are they are based around animals, family and sacred beliefs. Both “The Bats” and “The Feathers” are based around the love Hogan has for the animals. In “The Feathers” she tells about how she wanted a feather from an eagle, but how it had to still be alive for it to mean anything. She had one she got from when she was younger and sick and she went to a healer. The healers house burnt down and the feather were all that survived. She believed that the eagle