History

Christopher Pollard

21 March, 03:41

Read these excerpts from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:

"Why are you following me? What do you want?" The man

was afraid. The thing standing before him had the feet of a

deer, and its body was covered with feathers. The man

answered that the Kiowas were hungry. "Take me with you,"

the voice said, "and I will give you whatever you want."

From that day Tai-me has belonged to the Kiowas.

Once I went with my father and grandmother to see the

Tai-me bundle. It was suspended by means of a strip of

ticking from the fork of a small ceremonial tree. I made an

offering of red cloth, and my grandmother prayed aloud.

Which statement best compares the tones of the two passages?