The Way To Rainy Mountain

Momaday uses descriptive language in “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by giving nature human life-like qualities. Momaday used metaphors and personifications to describe much of the nature he saw, such as, “the streaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire”. Or a metaphor in this case, “yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh”. An example of a personification might be that of, of the Crows, “who gave them the culture and religion of the Plains”. Momaday, the narrator, then finds his grandmother’s grave in Rainy Mountain along there with ancestral names on dark stones, she was buried in holy ground.