In this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain, the author uses language that depicts the sun as a human. He was very angry…he t
hrew the ring and it did what he told it to do; it struck the woman and killed her, and then the sun’s child was all alone. What is the effect of this language? It conveys a tone of fantasy. It creates a peaceful mood. It supports a friendly tone. It develops an atmosphere of chaos.
N. Scott Momaday's memoir "The Way To Rainy Mountain" is a series of travelogue/ history infused with folklore tales of the Kiowa people. This memoir serves as a means for the author's efforts to learn about his ancestors. The book contains details of the people from their original residence from Montana to the Rainy Mountains in Oklahoma.
The given passage from the text shows the personification of the sun as a human, capable of killing a person with a 'magical' ring. This gives a sense of a mythical fantasy, where the events are out of this world. The sun, as a human, gets angry and told 'the ring' to do what it was told to do, thus killing a woman, are all forms of fantastical elements in the story.
