Iroquois creation Literary response

Steve Epting
AP English
Literary Response: The Iroquois creation story
In this article, the author spoke on how the Native American tribe, the Iroquois, started on this earth. There were twenty-five versions of Iroquois. It talked about the customs, the religions, and where they originated from. This text is very informational and it really doesn’t use any words or phrases to catch my attention. The four sections of the story tell the background on the tribe and it tells stories of creation. The tone of this article is prosaic and insipid. It lacked a flavor and a zest and it was dull and ordinary. Even though I felt that the tone was dull, I still understood the different stories of creation. I think that the author was trying to target an audience that was about high school level. The author targeted people doing research on this topic. The author’s purpose was to give information about the Iroquois.
When I first got this reading, I expected it to be a lot of information. I expected that because it sounds like an informational topic. If I could, I would cluster different paragraphs to make the background paragraph first, including different tribes and how they originated, and then I would make one long creation story with lots of details. In the reading, the author appeals to logos because a lot of facts were stated. To me, there wasn’t any good diction in the paragraphs. I think that maybe the writer derives from an Iroquois tribe and they did the research and they wanted to share this information with readers. There are inferences that I can make based on the reading. I can infer that the tribes of the Iroquois were made a long time ago and some still are around today.
There aren’t really that many short paragraphs so some of the openings of paragraphs did support the shape of the discourse. In the reading, there is nothing that the author failed to omit. I don’t think that the author used any good figurative language at all because as I stated earlier, the author did not use any word to grab my attention or the author didn’t use any words in an unusual context to make me think.
In conclusion, I think the author was just trying to educate more people to the different Iroquois tribes. There were enough facts in the reading to help me find out something new about them.