N.S. Momaday and Brown

N.S. Momaday and D. Brown were two native Americans who have chosen to tell you the reader about their land. N.S. Momaday has written to show how beautiful his and almost sacred land is. Then D. Brown has written to show a vast death that has spread through his land and left it empty. Both authors use literary devices such as alliteration and imagery. N.S. Momaday chooses to use personification as to where D. Brown does not.

In Momaday’s essay he uses personification to describe the knoll that is rising out of the plain when he says “a single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma”(Momaday ). The way he writes about the knoll actually makes it seem alive with the characteristic of it actually rising out of the plain. Or the way he describes the cracking grass, grass does not jus crack on its own it needs the help of a foreign object, he just makes it seem that it

yellow grasshoppers…”(Momaday501). The grasshoppers seem very lively and colorful which is a great additive to make the land in his essay seem colorful.

Although D. Brown and N.S. Momaday are using the same literary devices the purposes are still to tell the reader about their land, whether it is ugly or beautiful. The only difference is that Brown is describing a wasteland of what was once a beautiful land, and Momaday is describing his beautiful land as descriptive as he can. Throughout the essays they use a great deal of literary devices to prove their purposes through.

D. Brown also uses alliteration in his writing; “Arapahos roamed restlessly,”(Brown68) and “that summer it seemed”(Brown68). In these two examples the Arapahos seem to not know where they are headed and that they are tired, it gives you a sort of sympathy for the restless Indians. Brown does not use much alliteration that is very

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