Read this excerpt from section iii of the way to rainy mountain. there were always dogs about my grandmother’s house…the old people paid them scarcely any attention, but they should have been sad, i think, to see them go. what is the effect of the first-person point of view in this excerpt? the reader gets a sense of the author’s feelings about the dogs that were a major part of kiowa culture. the reader learns what the legendary origins are of the dogs that are so important in kiowa culture. the reader gets an outsider’s view on the role of dogs in kiowa culture. the reader finds out why other native americans associate dogs with the kiowas.