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The Way to Rainy Mountain
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The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Momaday
A Chapter Analysis Rough Draft
Personal Response/ Experiences
Chapter 19: Carrying my sister on my back as a child (relating to the Kiowa's task to save himself and his brother)
Chapter 3: An overprotective dog I used to own before giving it away (relating to the Kiowa - dog relationship)
Chapter 20: My despair in failing a musical composition in front of a crowd (relating to the hunting horse's death from shame)
Chapter 22: Caring for old/disabled horses one summer (relating to Mammedaty's horses)
Deconstructive Approach
Chapter 19
A different structure was presented in this chapter. While the three-voice structure remained, there was an additional text above the second voice, indicating a change in format and that its contents may be important to acknowledge.
What is the importance of "Summer 1879"? It is the only date in the book that has its own line.
Ecological Focus
Smallpox, its ecological aspects and social effects
Horses in the wild and how they were domesticated
Elm Fork of Red River, an Oklahoma river
Chapter 19 Themes
Bravery leads to great strength and integrity
Life is all about sacrifices
Family always comes first
Fear results in failure
Chapter Highlights
Chapter 19: Surrender at Fort Sill and the 1879 buffalo scarcity
"...they were obligated to kill and eat their ponies during the summer to save themselves from starving" (Momaday 67).
Chapter 3: The Kiowa's primordial need for dogs
"Some of them were nameless and lived a life of their own" (Momaday 21).
Chapter 20: The importance of a horse's life as a tribute/sacrifice
"I think I know how much he loved that animal..." (Momaday 71)
Chapter 22: A man's anger and a horse's intelligence
"He missed...and the arrow went deep into the neck of the second horse" (Momaday 76).
Historical Focus
1861-1862 Winter: Smallpox outbreak (Meadows)
1874 Red River War (Battle of Paro Dulo Canyon): Kiowa surrender at Fort Sill; hundreds of horses slaughtered (Schilz)
1879 Summer: Tsen-pia Kado "Horse-eating sun dance" (Momaday)
Works Cited
Meadows, William C. Kiowa Ethnogeography. Austin: U of Texas, 2008. Print.
Momaday, N. Scott, and Al Momaday. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico, 1969. Print.
Schilz, Thomas F. "Palo Duro Canyon, Battle of." Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association, 11 May 2015. Web. 12 May 2015.
The Closing In
Primary focal point:
Chapt. 19
Reference chapters:
Chapt. 3, 20, 22
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