Aaron Nobles Mrs. Adela Garcia English 098 11 October 2013 Summary of “The Homestead on Rainy Mountain Creek” In the essay “The Homestead on a Rainy Mountain Creek”, N. Scott Momaday discusses his life in the town of Mountain View and his experiences with the Kiowa people. He describes different places on the homestead and memories from his childhood in each place. Momaday remembers the house and the many visitors that as a child he didn’t realize were significant to his culture. “The essential integrity of the tribe was maintained by means of a kind of institutionalized visiting, whereby persons and families would venture abroad to pay visits, to keep intact a whole network of news and trade” (141). Momaday also explains those
It describes the place of origin and the journey Scott's ancestry traveled. In the essay when it depicts the standing of the "last great moment in history," I believe it backups the importance of Scott's heritage and why it was so special to him because his grandmother was the last generation to feel what his ancestors felt and lived. I to remember growing up and my grandfather feeding me stories of my ancestry. When I was younger, I would constantly dream up what it may have been like if I had lived on a reservation, or what it would be like to sit in the sweat
Alma takes Sarah to her own home and calls William. Sarah and William move back east to help Sarah recover from her homesickness. In “The Time of the Wolves” Alma is patient, caring, and courageous. In “The Time of the Wolves” Alma is patient. Alma’s husband, John, has gone into town and there is a blizzard coming.
She didn’t like it because it had no trees and in front of ever house was a little square of grass. She asked her dad if that was the house that they were going to live in because she didn’t like the place. As soon as they parked a woman with wild red hair came out to see them her name was Margaret Cadaver, or Mrs. Cadaver. She thought that there might be at least a barn or a river or at least a swimming hole, but there was nothing except for that square of grass. Later see knew that her mother’s birthday was coming up and her grandparents were coming to get her for a road trip.
The Poem “Small Town with One Road” is a short poem in free verse, its thirty-three lines forming one stanza. The title of the poem, “Small Town with One Road,” immediately fixes an image in our minds, and with that image, certain expectations arise about how the poem will approach the idea of the small town. Small towns are generally perceived as being dull boring and quiet,the poem presents a reflective commentary on life within the valley as compared with a life beyond. The poem is written in the first person. The speaker is a father, and he and his daughter are contemplating their view of the valley, but the speaker is primarily addressing the reader.
Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water’s murmur is the voice of my father’s father,“ spoke the powerful tribe leader. His passion is expressed towards the developers of a construction plan for the European immigrants of the time. He’s feared the day when people of an unfamiliar race would come to take over his reservation, and now that day has come. The imagery, personification, and symbolism in his writing is shown to let the reader feel the power of emotion underneath his words, feel the way he felt, make them think differently than they did before, and to simply be moved.
On Thursday October 11, 2012 guest speaker Larry Hirsch presented a lecture of his parent’s survivor story as holocaust survivors. Many would have believed that Larry would have spoken of sadness and death surrounding his parent. Instead, he spoke of how their lives came to be, beginning with his mother because she had deceased at a young age. Larry then spoke in detail of his father and all of the accomplishments he had made with his wife. Their story was very touching and could make a believer out of anyone that no matter what struggle you face in life you can still succeed.
How it covered the glass like ancient cave markings or the scribbling of a child. No, it wasn’t the frost at all. It was the spirits that got loose when it was cold… Hadn’t she seen them after her husband died last winter? Hadn’t she heard his ice-fishing decoys rattle one night” (Glancy, 1993, 22-28)? Since we already knew that she was battling depression, we can conclude that this was caused by the death of her husband the previous winter.
In the short story, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” by Leslie Silko, the conflict takes place on an Indian reservation in New Mexico. An Indian shepherd, Teofilo, is found dead by his two grandsons Ken and Leon. They take him back to their home, on the way being stopped by the local priest, who inquires about their grandfather. The two do not tell the priest about Teofilo’s death, and return home. Teofilo is given a traditional Indian burial, and Louis, another family member, suggests that holy water be sprinkled on Teofilio’s grave.
The author goes on to talk about the second ceremony and how it was used to bond Wind-Wolf spiritually with the “Great Spirit”, the “Grandfather Sun, and the “Grandmother Moon.” These ceremonies are a tradition to show respect to the new born and to ensure that the bonding helps lead him to a path of spirituality. Lake continues his letter by explaining the importance of the traditional Indian baby basket and how Wind-Wolf was strapped in the basket. The baby basket became his first seat to his classroom. Meaning that in the baby basket Wind-Wolf will observe and learn many things. Lake also mentions that the baby basket provides the child with the knowledge he would eventually use to survive in his culture.