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    From The Way to Rainy Mountain A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves

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    This statement by Momaday is very thematic for the book‚ The Way to Rainy Mountain. “A time that is gone forever‚ a landscape that is incomparable‚ and a human spirit which endures.” When this statement is broken apart‚ it precisely relates to the three focal points of the overall theme of the book. “A time that is gone forever‚” describes the Kiowa culture dying out. Second‚ “a landscape that is incomparable” is the Rainy Mountain‚ which is of great spiritual importance to the Kiowa and the author

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    The Way to Rainy Mountain The meaning of this story first struck me as a journey back through the Kiowa history. Back through the time of his grandma‚ to the time when all had just begun. It is a platform that reflects Momaday’s own background‚ sense of purpose and subsequent approach to the subject. He begins by Momaday begins his book by acquainting his audience with the Kiowa’s past. He tells of how the Kiowa migrated in the early 18th century from the headwaters of the Yellowstone River eastward

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    The texts‚ “Undaunted Courage” and “The Way To Rainy Mountain” depict the land as a spiritual entity that’s worth being worshipped and respected as shown by man’s praise of it. The way man‚ rather than exploit it for profit‚ respects the land through animism shows their gratitude for it. From the detailed descriptions that give the reader an illustration of what man has seen‚ it is clear to say that man had this religious relationship again‚ but was also in tune with the lay of the land. In “Undaunted

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    2013 There are many different cultures in the world we live in. In the stories “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” and “The Way to Rainy Mountain” we learn about two different cultures. The story “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” is about a Laguna elder who has passed away and his grandsons perform a traditional funeral. While the story‚ “The Way to Rainy Mountain” about a man named Momaday who is tracing his Kiowa roots and visits his grandmother’s grave. Although these are both distinct cultures‚ they contain

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    Momaday was born February 27‚ 1934 in Lawton‚ Oklahoma. He was born in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Hospital‚ and was then registered with having seven-eighths Indian blood. N. Scott Momaday was born of having a mix of English‚ Irish‚ French‚ and Cherokee blood while‚ his father‚ Alfred Morris Momaday was a full blood Kiowa. His mother was a writer and his father‚ a painter. In 1935‚ when N. Scott Momaday was one year old‚ his family moved to Arizona where both his father and mother became

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    C/C  Although both D. Brown (I) and N. S. Momaday (II)  clearly describe the extreme  weather conditions at the Oklahoma landmark‚ especially during the summer; Brown  essentially states his observations while‚ Momaday romanticized his view of the  landscape‚ which altered their perceptions.  In the first passage‚ written by D. Brown uses laconic diction and vivid imagery to  make the scenery more realistic and simple. First‚ Brown immediately begins by saying  what the problem is. The author declares in line one

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    Momaday uses this memoir to document‚ not only the end of his grandmother’s life‚ but also the “end” of several ways of life for the Kiowa people by constructing this world for the reader as if the reader had been there himself. Momaday begins his memoir with strong and descriptive word choice illustrating Rainy Mountain. Each sentence acting as a brushstroke in the reader’s mind‚ the paragraph painting an elaborate picture‚ the reader feels as if he has been dropped into the setting. Momaday then

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    Momaday Passage Analysis N.S. Momaday‚ in his descriptive passage‚ paints a stark image of his people’s treasured land‚ the Rainy Mountains. As the piece progresses‚ he stresses the importance of a desolate setting in order to spur Creation‚ highlighting the significance of the Kiowas‚ and anticipating recognition and understanding from others. Through the use of contrasting images and shifts in perspective‚ Momaday targets and invites the fixed-minded to experience his homeland’s sacred qualities

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    of this is evident in “My Two Lives” by Jhumpa Lahiri‚ “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday‚ and the excerpt from The Lost City by Alan Ehrenhalt. In “My Two Lives”‚ there is a case of identity confusion. Lahiri is heavily influenced at home to be Indian‚ yet expected to act American at school and in the public eye. According to Lahiri’s parents‚ she was not American and she would never be‚ regardless of

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