Momaday And Linda Hogan Analysis

As one reads N. Scott Momaday and Linda Hogan one can see how their work reflects nature as a complex system in which each piece is equally important. Momadays’ work reflects how the Native American views the complexity of nature. He writes about land usage and who uses the land reminding the reader that Native American’s love the land that they use. “You say that I use the land, and I reply yes, it is true; but it is no the first truth. The first truth is that I love the land; I see it is beautiful; I delight in it; I am alive in it,” (American Nature Writers, 580). Hogan writes about how nature at times can be unfair with complexity. Hogan writes about finding baby mice and how ants are biting the mice. By dipping, the mice into a bucket of water she knows she is trading one life for another. “I was trading one life for another, exchanging the lives of the ants for those of the mice, but I hated their suffering and hated even more that they had not yet grown to a life and already …show more content…
Momaday belief is nature is harmed by view society has. Land is viewed in terms of ownership and use (American Nature Writers, 580). He states “It is a lifeless medium of exchange; it has for most of us, I suspect, no more spirituality than has an automobile, say or a refrigerator,” (American Nature Writers, 580). Hogan writes about how humans can change one thing about nature, leading to more changes that are caused by that one change. She writes about a man who lived in a cave, his utopia, was the perfect temperature (American Nature Writers, 811). One day his wife decides that the cave needs a door. “Because the closed entryway the temperature changed,” (American Nature Writers, 811). The door changes the temperature of the cave they had to add heat and air conditioning (American Nature Writers, 811). The authors have shown how changes and views affect something perfect to begin