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Narrative Voice In The Way To Rainy Mountain

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“The Way to Rainy Mountain” is organized very well, it includes three narrative voices. Throughout this novel the first narrative voice is about the Kiowa legends. Then Momaday has a paragraph of contexts that relates to the legend. The author gives the reader a bit of his life by relating a family experience he had. Because some of the Kiowa legends and history go with Momadays own family history, then this three voice narration allows the author to have great detail about the Kiowa’s way of life in every way. This novel is put into three different main sections. The first one is “The Setting Out”, which has chapters about legends of the Kiowa people. This section also describes the Kiowa culture such as why the plants, and the animals

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