Each story a person shall come across will always differ from one to the next. Whether it is from a different point of view of how the grammar, tone, content, theme, texture etc. is used the stories are never going to be exactly the same; they will not necessarily be different either. Many stories have very similar motives to make you think, act and feel certain ways, like the comparison between N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” and Alice Walker’s “Beauty When the Other Dancer is the Self.” They compare and contrast perfectly.
For Example, N. Scott Momaday and Alice Walker are two very different writers, but they have narratives that clash in a textual way. In N. Scott Momaday’s, The Way to Rainy …show more content…
Now all the pain that Walker felt after losing her eye is gone. She understood she no longer has to wonder if people are judging her based off her appearance, Kids say some of the worst things. So for her daughter to not ask what is wrong with her eye, in a do not be alarm tone it makes Walker more comfortable. In Momadays journey, he went to the mountain. On his way there, he told us things he remembers his grandmother telling him. As he goes over the major events, he finds himself concluding what he wants to do with his life. Just from visiting his grandmother’s grave, opened his …show more content…
Alice Walker recounts and compares her life before and after her accident. An account that left a beautiful and outgoing individual with a destroyed self-image. Walker traces her experiences throughout her life with this change to her image and displays how outside factors affect an individual 's self-worth. N. Scott Momaday constructs a different way of telling his story. He reflects his background and ultimately how it affected him. His story not only represents the actual development of the Kiowa culture but his own development as well. He developed a personal interpretation of history of the Kiowa relying on imagination and slight memorization.
Both illustrate a story of their awakening; Alice Walker is awakened when she realizes that outside image is not as important as internal beauty. N. Scott Momaday is awakened when he comes to his own gets to the grave and remembers things from his past. They are ultimately different in the way they go about telling their stories the imagery and diction are completely different, however, they are similar in the sense that they both tell a story about their own moments of realization and