I chose to answer questions one and five under "Rhetoric" on p. 818-819 for "The Way to Rainy Mountain."
Question 1: What is the method of development in the first paragraph? How does the introduction, with its focus on Rainy Mountain, serve as a vehicle for the central meanings in the essay?
The method of development in the first paragraph was to get you fixed on the setting Momaday was describing. Obviously if he was taking time to be so descriptive when talking about Rainy Mountain in the first paragraph you can tell it has great significance to him. The focus on Rainy Mountain in the first paragraph serves as a vehicle for the central meanings in the essay by letting you know there is significance to this place and you must keep reading to find out why. After reading you discover this is where his cultural heritage took place. His grandmother contributed to keeping the Kiowa tribe together (Momaday's ancestry). The location, his grandmother, and the Kiowa ancestry all come together and relate at Rainy Mountain.
Question 5: How do the land, the Kiowas, and Momaday's grandmother serve as reinforcing frames in the essay?
The land was home to the Kiowas, Momaday's grandmother was a Kiowa and as long as she was alive it seemed the tribe was still filled with life. It was unfortunate that she passed, but in reality she finally will become one with the land she originated from and respected so dearly. The author reinforces the idea that he regrets not carrying tradition like his grandmother did and set out on his own pilgrimage using his grandmother's life to help better understand his ancestry. I mean he knows his ancestry, but he wanted to search more in depth. He writes in a pattern that relates his grandmother, the Kiowa, and land all in the same essay.
Question 1: What is the method of development in the first paragraph? How does the introduction, with its focus on Rainy Mountain, serve as a vehicle for the central meanings in the essay?
The method of development in the first paragraph was to get you fixed on the setting Momaday was describing. Obviously if he was taking time to be so descriptive when talking about Rainy Mountain in the first paragraph you can tell it has great significance to him. The focus on Rainy Mountain in the first paragraph serves as a vehicle for the central meanings in the essay by letting you know there is significance to this place and you must keep reading to find out why. After reading you discover this is where his cultural heritage took place. His grandmother contributed to keeping the Kiowa tribe together (Momaday's ancestry). The location, his grandmother, and the Kiowa ancestry all come together and relate at Rainy Mountain.
Question 5: How do the land, the Kiowas, and Momaday's grandmother serve as reinforcing frames in the essay?
The land was home to the Kiowas, Momaday's grandmother was a Kiowa and as long as she was alive it seemed the tribe was still filled with life. It was unfortunate that she passed, but in reality she finally will become one with the land she originated from and respected so dearly. The author reinforces the idea that he regrets not carrying tradition like his grandmother did and set out on his own pilgrimage using his grandmother's life to help better understand his ancestry. I mean he knows his ancestry, but he wanted to search more in depth. He writes in a pattern that relates his grandmother, the Kiowa, and land all in the same essay.
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