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Samantha Schol
4/09/09
Sacred ground
Momadays “Sacred ground” uses both concrete and abstract language to help describe sights and feelings while on a trip to the Medicine Wheel in the Big Horn Mountains. The Medicine Wheel and the mountains that it rests in are thought to be a sacred place by the American Indians. Momaday show the readers what it felt like to be at the Medicine Wheel by his use of abstract language when he describes his time spent at the Medicine Wheel. Momaday describes the Medicine Wheel as having a great calm, and he was deeply moved by the Spirit there as well. Momaday also uses concrete language to describe to the reader what he saw on his trip into the wilderness and at the Medicine Wheel. He describes the rough road he traveled to get up the mountain, the deer standing on the hill, the saddle that the Medicine Wheel sits in, and the view that the Medicine Wheel offers. He describes these things in such detail that the reader could probably draw a picture of the road, scenery, and the deer. Momaday wasn’t just describing the psychical beauty of the mountains and plains; he was also describing the feelings he felt at the Medicine Wheel. To took both concrete and abstract language to make the reader feel like they were on sacred ground without having to visit it for themselves. The American Indians had many sacred places; Medicine Wheel was just one of them.
4/09/09
Sacred ground
Momadays “Sacred ground” uses both concrete and abstract language to help describe sights and feelings while on a trip to the Medicine Wheel in the Big Horn Mountains. The Medicine Wheel and the mountains that it rests in are thought to be a sacred place by the American Indians. Momaday show the readers what it felt like to be at the Medicine Wheel by his use of abstract language when he describes his time spent at the Medicine Wheel. Momaday describes the Medicine Wheel as having a great calm, and he was deeply moved by the Spirit there as well. Momaday also uses concrete language to describe to the reader what he saw on his trip into the wilderness and at the Medicine Wheel. He describes the rough road he traveled to get up the mountain, the deer standing on the hill, the saddle that the Medicine Wheel sits in, and the view that the Medicine Wheel offers. He describes these things in such detail that the reader could probably draw a picture of the road, scenery, and the deer. Momaday wasn’t just describing the psychical beauty of the mountains and plains; he was also describing the feelings he felt at the Medicine Wheel. To took both concrete and abstract language to make the reader feel like they were on sacred ground without having to visit it for themselves. The American Indians had many sacred places; Medicine Wheel was just one of them.