高英summary-通往雨山的路

高英s u m m a r y-通往雨山的路(共1
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Summary of The way to the rainy mountain
In N. Scott Momaday’s novel, he tells us his grandmother’s life in Rainy Mountain. Rainy Mountain is a single knoll in Oklahoma with the bad weather. Winter brings blizzards hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. Loneliness is an aspect of the land.
The author returned to Rainy Mountain in July for visit her grandmother’s grave. Her grandmother was born in last great moment of their history. They like the wars and they were among the finest horsemen the world has ever known. But now, they have been the history.
The author grandmother’s name is Aho, her ancestors came down from the high country in western Montana. In the late 17th century they began a long migration to the south and east. Along the way they were befriended by the Crows who gave them the culture and religion of the Plains. They worshiped the Tai-me and they are the believer of the sun.
As for me, Yellowstone was the best place of the world which has many deep lakes and dark timber, canyons and waterfalls. In July, the Rockies is luxuriant with flax and buckwheat, stone-crop and larkspur. There was a great scene, so the Kiowa stop their way. They had come to the place where they must change their lives. There was no doubt that sun make people comfortable but they didn’t want to change their way because they didn’t want to be far from Rainy Mountain. They bore Tai-me in procession to the east. The dark mist lay over the Black Hills, and the land was lake iron. However tenuous their well-being, however much they had suffered and would suffer again, they had found a way out of the wilderness.
She worshiped the sun and she was a Christian in her later years. As a child she had been to the Sun Dance. The last Sun Dance was held in 1887 when she was 7. and in 1890, her tribe were killed by the wild herds. From then on, she began to pray for a long time. But the author can not understand it. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, she seemed beyond the reach of the time. But that was illusion. The author knew that he shouldn’t see her again.
Once there was a lot of sound in his grandmother’s house, a lot of coming and going, feasting and talking. The Kiowas like the summer but they don’t like the winter. The aged visitors who came to his grandmother’s house when he was a child were an old council of warlords.
There were frequent prayer meetings, and great nocturnal feasts. When the author played with his cousins outside his grandmother was preparing the meal. Afterwards, when the quiet returned, he lay down with his grandmother and could hear the frogs away by the river and feel the motion of the air.
Now there is a funeral silence in the rooms, the endless wake of some final world. The author sat for a long time on the stone steps by the kitchen door. The next morning, he leave the Rainy Mountain. His grandmother’s grave was on the long and legendary way. Looking back once, he saw the mountain and came away.
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