Read this excerpt from section iii of the way to rainy mountain. there were always dogs about my grandmother’s house…the old people paid them scarcely any attention, but they should have been sad, i think, to see them go. what is the effect of the first-person point of view in this excerpt? the reader gets a sense of the author’s feelings about the dogs that were a major part of kiowa culture. the reader learns what the legendary origins are of the dogs that are so important in kiowa culture. the reader gets an outsider’s view on the role of dogs in kiowa culture. the reader finds out why other native americans associate dogs with the kiowas.

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance