Compare And Contrast Momaday And Brown

Momaday and Brown, two Native American writers, wrote about their homeland. N.S. Momaday wrote about the land's beauty, however D.Brown wrote about the emptiness felt on the land. Both authors use literary features such as imagery and diction to express their feelings about their land. When reading the passage from Momaday, readers sense the admiration he feels for the land while Brown displays more of a despairing feeling. Momaday describes the summer days on the land with “great green and yellow grasshoppers” on the tall green grass. This colorful language paints a peaceful image. He says,”For my people, the Kiowas.” This also shows the admiration he feels for the land because it is a part of his family. To Momaday, the plains are home. In contrast Brown starts off his piece in a negative tone, giving off a negative image to the land. He describes the land by writing,” the sun baked the dry earth drier, the streams stopped running, great whirlwinds of grasshoppers were flung out of the metallic sky to consume …show more content…
Momaday describes the land by using colors to describe the grasshoppers and the earth. He says,” great green and yellow grasshoppers”...” tortoises crawl about the red earth..” This all adds to the admiration he feels about the land by describing the nature around him. The positive connotation achieves his purpose. However, Brown uses unpleasant diction to describe the land loss. His choice of diction is opposite from the colorful one Momaday uses. The passage is liveliness and very dull when describing the plains. Brown uses words such as “metallic sky” and “parched.” When writing about the land he says,”..endless desolation of bones and skulls and rotting hooves.” The harsh connotation is used to show the lands devastation and