Momaday: A Literary Analysis

Momaday uses this memoir to document, not only the end of his grandmother’s life, but also the “end” of several ways of life for the Kiowa people by constructing this world for the reader as if the reader had been there himself. Momaday begins his memoir with strong and descriptive word choice illustrating Rainy Mountain. Each sentence acting as a brushstroke in the reader’s mind, the paragraph painting an elaborate picture, the reader feels as if he has been dropped into the setting. Momaday then constructs characters with very much detail in, not just their appearance, but their personality. Thus, one feels he knows them so well they seem to be archetypal characters. Thirdly, Momaday writes this story from a different perspective. Most