Who is the audience? What is the prupose?
I think the piece was intended for people who don't care about the earth because the purpose of the writing was to bring atention to nature and show how the Native Americans treat nature as if it were family.
How does the writer structure and to what effect?
The writer uses poems in the writing. The piece starts out with a poem then talks about the past. Another poem is then used and the writer then uses some of his own things that he tells people. This goes on a couple more times and then it ends in a poem. This creates somewhat of a break for the reader which is nice because it is a long piece.
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Although I completely agree that Momaday wrote this piece in order to "bring attention to nature and show how the Native Americans treat nature as if it were family", I'm not on the same terms about the audience. I don't think Momaday was writing to people who didn't care at all, because he did not have a strong enough appeal for them. It seemed to me that he was writing to people who were already mildly interested in the environment, since so much of his writing dealt with his fondness for it. If he were writing this piece to persuade people, he would most likely have used more logic examples to prove a point.
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