chute. Thomas rides saddle broncs all over the country including places like New York, Dallas, Denver, and mostly a town called Aztec. He went all over the world riding for the big circuit rodeo. Also, a small part of the setting takes place in a hospital where he ends up after a severe injury from a horse.Finally, I will discuss the last part of the book, The Mountains. The Mountains takes place in the Horse Mountains. Here, Thomas herds sheep for a living in just one of the huge valleys on Horse Mountain. The valleys there are full of nutritious grass for the sheep. Thomas bathes in a pool of one of the many creeks in the Horse Mountains. He builds a lodge and a drying rack in the Horse Mountains on the first branch of Granite Peak.Point of ViewThe term point of view refers to the vantage point from which the writer has chosen to tell the story. The book, When the Legends Die plot refers to the omniscient point of view. The omniscient point of view is when the person telling the story knows everything there is to know about the characters and their problems. This all knowing narrator can tell us about the characters past, present, and future. This narrator can even tell us what the character is thinking. In the omniscient point of view, the narrator is not in the story at all. The narrator is like a god telling the story. Hal Borland, the writer of When the Legends Die, is the all knowing narrator in this novel.PlotThe term plot refers to the series of related events that make up a story. Plot is what happens in a story, whether that story is told in the form of a short story, novel, play, or poem. Most plots are built on the following three bare bones: basic situation which is tells us who the characters are and what their conflict is, climax which is the most exciting moment in the story, and resolution which is when all the storys problems are solved and the story is closed.The book starts of on a Ute reservation i...
