Monday, May 19, 2008

N. Scott Momaday " The Way to Rainy Mountain"

I believe this is a very beautiful piece of writing because it is very spiritual towards the illustration on how the author describes the setting of the essay. The author talks in a very beautiful way about his grandmother and his culture, which is Kiowa, a type of Native American group who live in the Arkansas. The author sees his grandmother as someone who wants to keep their culture alive and to pass it on as a tradition for the culture for the next generations. He spoke about his grandmother in a form of respect and love at the same time. After his grandmother died many years afer, he went to Rainy Mountain, where his grandmother used to live. I enojyed reading this story because it was a story written with love and care, yet he talks about his sadness when she passes away.

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