Kiowa

survival; they were a lordly and dangerous society of fighters and thieves, hunters and priests of the sun” (Momaday 28). The Way to Rainy Mountain is the story of a member of the Kiowa tribe retracing his ancestors steps as they moved from Montana to Oklahoma. In the story it is easy to see the influence of the Kiowa culture, beliefs, and history. In The Way to Rainy Mountain the grandmother was remembering about the sun dance. “As a child she had been to the Sun Dances; she had taken…

journey to be at the Aho’s grave, his beloved grandmother and revive her memories of Kiowa. Artfully, he merges two sets of stories to cast his tale: first, he describes Aho’s memories as the only human link to his tribe and his culture, the Kiowas; then, travels to the Kiowas’ migration path, what he calls - his pilgrimage - to be at the place of birth and burial of his forebears. Arriving at an old landmark in the Kiowa, at the Rainy Mountain, he describes how Aho treasured…

There are many potential points of interest in analyzing Joan Didion’s essay, “Holy Water” and the prologue to N. Scott Momaday’s book The Way to Rainy Mountain. The two pieces of writing are significantly dissimilar indeed, and therefore lend themselves more readily to contrast rather than comparison. Upon further investigation, I came to the conclusions that as different as they were in terms of writing style and use of rhetotical devices, both of the writers’ styles were effective. “Holy…

Question 1 Alexie in his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian details the hardships Native American Indians encounter through going to white public high school in Washington in the off-reservation Reardan town (Alexie and Forney 36). The novel addresses social issues, such as bullying, violence, sexual references and poverty in addition to tragic deaths of most of the characters that discuss the American culture clash with the Indian culture. Junior is one character that is in…

soldier and everyday citizen. In the chapter The Man I Killed, Tim O’Brien completely loses focus of himself after taking the life of another man. O’Brien is in so much shock that he stops talking to one of the soldiers he is closest with, Kiowa, and shuts everyone out. While isolating himself from everything around him, he imagines the life that the boy probably had before he killed him. He imagines that the boy could have been a scholar, had a wife, and more than likely wasn’t a…

Chief Satanta nickname was (White bear) Satanta by Matthew Potucek Famous speech “All of the people south of the Arkansas River belongs to the Kiowas and Comanches and I don't want to give any of it away. I love the land and the buffalo, and will not part with any. I have heard that you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle there. I love to rome over the wide prairie, and when I do it I feel free and happy; but when we…

did this to make himself feel guilty. In the story it keeps repeating the details of how the man looks after being blown up. It also goes on about how Tim is still staring at the body. Kiowa says to Tim “Stop staring” (Page 122). Kiowa tries to comfort Tim and tries to tell him that these kind of things happen. Kiowa finally covers the body with a poncho and tries to get Tim to talk about it but all Tim could think about was the young man with the star shaped…

't have to be true, it just helped them believe that the dead are still with them. "Notes" is also another showing of soldier’s life after the war. In particular, "Notes" Is hand in hand with the chapter "Speaking of Courage" which is the story of Kiowa 's death and how Norman Bowker thinks about it. "Notes" explain the death of Norman Bowker after he went home after the war. Bowker Hung himself in a locker room of a YMCA at his hometown. Life after war was useless to him, Bowker wrote a letter…

imagines that the man he killed was born in 1946 and that his parents were farmers; that he was neither a Communist nor a fighter. Kiowa justified O’Brien’s actions and urges him to come into terms with the man’s death. All the while, O’Brien reflects on the boy’s life, cut short. He observes at the boy’s sunken chest and delicate fingers and wonders if he was a scholar. Kiowa covers the body and urges him again to talk, but all O’Brien can contemplate is the boy’s daintiness and his eye that…

field where Kiowa dies; it seems known as the village toilet. Surely Norman possesses an opportunity to win the Silver star, but it appears his confusion and uncertainty block him from receiving it. Norman urges to save Kiowa and become a hero winning the Silver Star, but he can't fathom possibly dying in such a place so nauseating. He cannot stand the crap in his eyes, in his mouth, and all over his body as he tries to rescue Kiowa; the smell becomes too repulsive, enough to let Kiowa drown in…