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John

In chapter one of The Way to Rainy Mountain, Scott Momaday says that every thing has to begin. The storyteller talks about how everything begins. The Kiowa were said to have come up through a hollow log. They would come up through the log and they would be given life. One day, a fat woman who was about to give birth was stuck inside the log and she could not get out and nobody else was able to get out and nobody could get in. She blocked everybody’s way and she would be stuck forever. This is why there were not that many Kiowa in the world. The remaining Kiowa called themselves Kwuda, which means “coming out.”

The Kiowa called themselves Kwuda and they later called themselves Tepda. Both meant “coming out.” They would later be called another name, Gaigwa, which means two halves different from each other. The Kiowa warriors cut their hair on the right side of their heads at the same exact level of the ear lobe.

Momaday remembers coming out upon the Great Plains in the late spring. There are meadows of wild flowers on a slope as far as the eye can see. He thought the earth was as real as it is going to be. I will now tell you about the time that I pitched in kids pitch. I was about nine years old and I was a big time catcher for my baseball team who went by the name of Nichols Ice. Now I can not exactly tell you who my teammates were but I can tell you who my coach was. His name was Coach Gibson. I liked him because of the fact that he gave me a chance to play. He was very nice to me.

I had never pitched before and I got to have a chance to pitch. I came up as a relief pitcher for David Goins, Josh Goins little brother. We were down 2 runs in the bottom of the fifth. I had just thrown about 30 pitches in the bullpen and my arm was feeling good. I took the mound and threw 2 straight strikes. I thought that I would have a strike out when the batter hit the ball and got a double. That is how it started. I gave up 3 runs off four hits in 2 innings of pitching. We lost. I got to start about 2 weeks later. I pitched 5 innings, gave 2 runs off 3 hits with seven strikes outs. We won, 3-2. I would later become a closer and I got 7 saves with 7 runs off 11 hits in 17 innings.

I think that the beginning of the paragraph is true. It is true because of the fact that the beginning started something like what was in the book. I also think that the beginning of their lives were like the beginning of our lives.