In response to Faja

I absolutely enjoyed reading Faja, for a number of reasons. First of all, there weren't a TON of descriptive words, so I wasn't reall sure how i felt about it at first. But the writer eventually won me over. I could see this, even without all the description, in my head of the fathers routines.

I found myself asking questions, like Why does he do this? or why does he think this way? The writer then again won me over. He described everything.For example, "He seems to wander aimlessly from his bedroom to his car to the kitchen then back to the bedroom again until he finally comes out in a more relaxing outfit."  Granted, it was a simple sentence but when i was reading it I was curious at to why he was walking around aimlessly to so many different places.What would be the result? I couldn't help but keep reading.

Ties to the land in The Way to Rainy Mountain

The entire essay emphasizes the theme of journey, the young man's journey to his grandmother's grave. The grandmother use to always tell the young man stories about a journey, one she never took. She told it from memories of stories people had told her.The Kiowa people have an important journey, one that is long and hard. But despite these obstacles, they learn new skills and become stronger through the journey.Every journey told in the story ends at Rain Mountain, as depicted in the title. The young man made it to his grandmothers grave.
I really did enjoy this story. I like reading stories about people's journeys, where they start at one point and must work to the place they would like to go.