The Way To Rainy Mountain Analysis

Writing history, N. Scott Momaday the author of The Way to Rainy Mountain, writes to remember, recollect, and restore his cultural heritage essay (Oates, Joyce 2000). In his pictorial essay, revealing and recovering what is part of his own untold story, Momaday takes on a 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 …show more content…
- Following line, the author is portraying the loss of his tribe’s freedom with a certainty that the freedom belongs to all other creatures of the mountain: “There is a perfect freedom in the mountains, but it belongs to the eagle and the elk, the badger and the bear” (Oates, 315).
- According to Landon: “Balance is the rhythm of twos” (Oates, 204) and that is exactly how Momaday uses it in this sentence: “Once there was a lot of sound in my grandmother's house, a lot of coming and going, feasting and talk“ (Oates, 317). Momaday is stressing on how balanced was Kiowas’ social skills and it could not be done better than using a combination of two two-part series.

Among schemes of repetition and methods of rhyme, alliteration, a device to repeat the initial consonants in neighboring or in grammatically corresponding words, also establishes mood and rhythm (Landon, 212). Among all rhetorical devices, it seems that Momaday utilizes alliteration the most to convey authority with lyrical rhyme. This is a selected