Momaday's The Way To Rainy Mountain: Summary
Beginning of paper
N. Scott Momaday divides his book The Way to Rainy Mountain in an
interesting manner. The book is divided into three chapters, each of which
contains a dozen or so numbered sections, each of which is divided into three
parts. The first part of each numbered section tends to be a legend or a story
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Middle of paper
.... and they found friends in the physical and spiritual world.
The first part of the book describes the beginning of the Kiowa culture and
their development.
Towards the end of the first part, the tone of the stories changes.
Instead of describing different stories each time, they begin to tell a story
which continues through six numbered sections. The story relates the life of a
baby who grows into the sun's wife who then has a ·child who becomes two
children, who become honored people in t ....
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Word count: 666
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
