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    The brutal treatment of the native americans is a stain on american history. N. Scott Momaday’s grandmother lived closely after that time‚ so she knew both times of her people’s lives‚ but was not broken by the change. Momaday wrote his essay‚ The Way to Rainy Mountain to remember his heritage and to remind his audience of a dying culture. Momaday’s essay begins with a description of Rainy Mountain‚ home to his tribe‚ the Kiowas‚ followed by a short history about how they were driven from their

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    “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday “The Way to Rainy Mountain” is a short story by N. Scott Momaday. In this short work‚ Momaday describes the loss of someone special to him‚ his grandmother‚ and the things and places that remind him of her. He spends a lot of time describing the terrain of what his people have named “Rainy Mountain”. His people are the Kiowa‚ an old Native American tribe that lived on the plains of Oklahoma. The story‚ in the literal sense‚ is about the main

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    AK English 217 – Reading Journal (The Way To Rainy Mountain) Scott Momaday uses nature to dictate the passage of life. He personifies the landscape as a person‚ he says the there is ‘perfect in the mountains but it belongs to the eagle and the elk‚ the badger and the bear.’ To me‚ this tells me the mountains have a feeling of openness‚ but it is the home of many – not just humans. The mountain holds importance to the Kiowa’s because it is pure wilderness. The landscape that is described helps

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    The short works Reading the River by Mark Twain‚ and The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday‚ are personal tales of moments in the authors lives and how those experiences impacted them spiritually. The central theme of both essays is that of impressing upon the reader to be careful not to take everyday life for granted. Both authors accomplish this mission by relying on examples from nature‚ but Momaday goes a step farther and incorporates his Native American heritage into the explanation of

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    Navarre Scott Momaday who known as N. Scott Momaday is a Native American author who wrote “The way to Rainy Mountain in 1969. In the essay he tried to get back in his heritage by undertaking a journey to Rainy Mountain in Oklahoma where he visited his late grandmother’s grave. In this essay he also tries to tell the story of his departed grandmother Aho‚ who belonged to the last culture to spread in North America. No wonder she had memories of hardship while war was her ancestor’s sacred business

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    “The Way to Rainy Mountain” written by N. Scott Momaday‚ is a story behind a Kiowa descendent experience with Rainy Mountain. In the story‚ he depicts history‚ culture and life of the Kiowa tribe. In addition‚ he focused more on his grandmother to display the life for Kiowa people. Rainy Mountain is a place where weather becomes extreme no matter the kind of season. One day‚ the author returned to Rainy Mountain to visit his grandmother’s grave. She had recently died and he feels nostalgic. His grandmother

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    (2013) (S2453406) Sierra Turner Points possible: 20 Date: ____________ This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response. Read and Paraphrase Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday: Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass‚ popping up like corn to sting the flesh‚ and tortoises crawl about on the red earth‚ going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All

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    N. Scott Momaday “The Way to Rainy Mountain” “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday was a really strong essay/ story. It had a lot of different images that was very well descriptive and had a lot more details than what was told in the essay/ story. His descriptions were so vivid and strong: I could actually she all of the different weathers. I like that the piece was written by what I would consider a Native American; it made this a lot more interesting and informative to read because

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    1934‚ N. Scott Momaday was born to mother‚ Mayme Scott who was a teacher and a writer‚ and to father Alfred Morris Mammedaty who was a teacher and an artist. Momaday’s father later reduced the family’s surname to the present day spelling of Momaday. N. Scott Momaday was specified as seven-eighths Native after birth‚ and a tarrying one-eighth of pioneer lineage. In Native American tradition‚ presenting a name for a person is significant as in determining the person’s life course. Momaday was given

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    The "Way" To Rainy Mountain Q: In many waysMomaday is writing a memoir of a people‚ the Kiowas‚ not just himself or his grandmother. How does he use events from his own life and his grandmother’s life as a lens through which he can talk about the Kiowas? Momaday star his book by familiarizing the reader with facts about Kiowas’s past. Momaday tell of how the Kiowa migrated in the early 18th century. In the course of that long migration (the Kiowa) had come of age as a people. They had conceived

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