Walking The Path 
Pepperdine 1
Zak Pepperdine
Ms. Silver
AP Lang and Comp
26 September 2014
“Walking the Path…” Questions
1. Back on the reservation where she used to live, Lori Arviso Alvord had experienced a much closer community who did almost everything together; at Dartmouth Alvord experienced a much different view on community. At Dartmouth Alvord experienced a new view on community that was copmpletely different from that on her reservation. At Dartmouth there was no community feel, there were just many different cliques that included few and excluded many.
2. Alvord organizes her essay in the form of a short story that is able to keep the reader entertained and interested in what happened in her past.
3. By including the Mountain Chant in order to give the reader a better idea of just how close the
Navajo’s are and how important their beliefs and religion is to them.
4. The landscape in Hanover makes Alvord feel a little intimidated because it is so drastically different than anything she had ever seen at her reservation, but it also awed her and because it was so different from what she had seen.
6. In paragraphs 2122 Alvord’s tone is one of anger because she feels that the founders had overlooked her people in the beginning. She exemplifies her tone through her sarcastic mocking of the phrase “educate the savages”(Alvord, Paragraph 21), which she uses multiple times. She also expresses her anger when she explains that she never really felt like she belonged there but was “entitled to be there”(Alvord, Paragraph 21).
Zak Pepperdine
Ms. Silver
AP Lang and Comp
26 September 2014
“Walking the Path…” Questions
1. Back on the reservation where she used to live, Lori Arviso Alvord had experienced a much closer community who did almost everything together; at Dartmouth Alvord experienced a much different view on community. At Dartmouth Alvord experienced a new view on community that was copmpletely different from that on her reservation. At Dartmouth there was no community feel, there were just many different cliques that included few and excluded many.
2. Alvord organizes her essay in the form of a short story that is able to keep the reader entertained and interested in what happened in her past.
3. By including the Mountain Chant in order to give the reader a better idea of just how close the
Navajo’s are and how important their beliefs and religion is to them.
4. The landscape in Hanover makes Alvord feel a little intimidated because it is so drastically different than anything she had ever seen at her reservation, but it also awed her and because it was so different from what she had seen.
6. In paragraphs 2122 Alvord’s tone is one of anger because she feels that the founders had overlooked her people in the beginning. She exemplifies her tone through her sarcastic mocking of the phrase “educate the savages”(Alvord, Paragraph 21), which she uses multiple times. She also expresses her anger when she explains that she never really felt like she belonged there but was “entitled to be there”(Alvord, Paragraph 21).