I wrote this for a class. The assignment was to mimic a book we had to read by N. Scott Momaday called The Way to Rainy Mountain. If you can't tell, the first part is a personal recollection, the second is like a legend, and the third is written in the perception of my father. There are usually parallels in Momaday's writing that link these three together. This is all loosely based on some events and people in my family-but it is definitely fictional. This style makes it easy to reflect on and tie together death and life. In this particular story I've used the life cycles of salmon to mimic...