Each chapter in Braiding Sweetgrass can be separate stories but they come together to represent Kemmerer's world view as a scientist, mother, and native american. In the section Picking Sweetgrass there is a chapter called Mishka Kenomgwen: The Teaching of the Sweet grass. This chapter is unlike any of the previous chapters. The science paper structure with poetic storytelling uses multiple techniques to guide the reader to Kimmerer’s intended takeaway. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Kimmerer change the genre to the science paper format, because the subject is based on her student combining her science and native culture backgrounds into one experiment. The change to this genre does not really affect her ethos as a scientist, because …show more content…
In addition, she gives the biology definition of theory, to help the other readers understand what is occurring. Her longer sentences with important details has the scheme of interruption to draw attention to the important information following the commas or dashes. The scheme does not necessarily give off a poetic feel, but when they are near short sentences; there is change in flow. The change in flow is more poetic. As important the flow is to the non-science feel, similes and personification play a bigger role. The first part of the chapter is the introduction which sets the tone for the paper. In the introduction was the smile, “You sniff like a dog on a scent”(( Kimmerer 156), and the personification of sweetgrass’ scent, “the sweet vanilla fragrance , beckoning”( Kimmerer 156). When these two lines come together at the start, the words come to life and the bland objective tones of a science paper disappear, because their is personification of plants scent and brings the reader into the scene of being in the meadow and tracking the scent like a dog. That has no place in a third person objective paper that gives the facts that lead to a hypothesis that is tested by the experimenter. The poetic tone is mismatched to the the