In this excerpt from section xviii of the way to rainy mountain, the author describes his
relationship to the space around him.
you could see far and wide even at night, by the light of the moon, there was nothing to stand in
your way. and when the season turned and it was necessary to move back into the house, there
was a sense of confinement and depression for a time
what does this description convey about the author?
he knows that with the change of seasons the end of the kiowa culture is looming
he faces depression when he has to be in large spaces alone
• he connects the emotion of the people to the condition of the land and seasons
he finds mystical power in the nighttime sky
and tell me if i’m right

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.