Character Analysis: “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” Leslie Mormon Silko wrote “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” in 1969. The story details the death of an old Indian named Teofilo. During one point of the story Leon prepares Teofilo’s body for burial. Leon proceeds to paint Teofilo’s face yellow. In the Native American Culture the color yellow stands for mourning or death. Teofilo may be dead‚ but Silko presents him as a transitional character going through the three stage process. Silko uses the three
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The Man to Send Rain Clouds Readers Reaction This was quite an interesting story. There were three sections to the story which broke the story in three different times in one day. The characters were all very nonchalant except for the priest who showed some emotion when he found out that old Teofilo died. The story kept our interest‚ however‚ it did not lead a very clear trail to the end‚ and there was no real climax where we felt there was a good peak. The story needs to be read more than once to
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“The Man to Send Rain Clouds” The theme of Leslie Marmon Silko’s The Man to Send Rain Clouds revolves around the idea of maintaining your culture in the opposition of the “religious right.” Leon is faced with strong opposition about his tribe’s rituals in regard to the burying of one of their dead. That opposition comes from the Christian priest and his ideas of what is sacred. Cultures around the world embrace death in different ways. Some mourn and fear death; others accept it and find
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"The Man to Send Rain Clouds" is a short story about the death of an old man on a Pueblo Indian reservation and the issues that arise from conflicting spiritual traditions and Christian traditions. As the story opens‚ the dead body of an old man has been found under a cottonwood tree on an Indian reservation. The sheep that had been under the old man’s care are grazing in scattered locations up and down an arroyo (ravine). Two men‚ Leon and his brother-in-law Ken‚ have discovered the body‚ which
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Silko’s "The Man to Send Rain Clouds." Both authors illustrate the importance of the tradition. How each of the characters values the tradition that they carry into their society. They depict how culture can affect their lives. Despite all the advantages of the culture they value‚ it also has a disadvantage that makes it different from one another. These two stories shows how they have so much respect for their ritual burials. As a matter of fact‚ they appreciate it
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cultural diversities and differences that span from one society to the next. Much can be learned from understanding the different ways of life and being culturally sensitive to all the different practices of people such as the people in the story "A Man to Send Rain Clouds" by Leslie Marmon Silko. American culture not only takes death extremely serious‚ but fears it in many ways. Our society treats death in such a personal way that we have created several euphemisms to exemplify that people have died
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In The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ there are millions of symbols and meanings regardless of how short the story may be. ‘‘The big cotton wood tree stood apart from a small grove of winter-bare cottonwoods which grew in the wide‚ sandy arroyo. Leon waited under the tree while Ken drove the truck through the deep sand to the edge of the arroyo. But high and northwest the Blue Mountains were still in snow. It was getting colder‚ and the wind pushed gray dust down the narrow pueblo
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world‚ the Pueblo people in the story “the Man to Send Rain Clouds” have adapted to the Western culture that surrounds them‚ but only to a certain degree. They have learned how to keep important traditions alive‚ while combining new aspects of the Western culture and without changing completely. One of the traditions the Pueblo people did not change was the way they conducted a ceremony for a loved one who has passed. This tradition is the main conflict in this story. Between Leon and Father Paul‚
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or a social pyramid in society. In many cases people assume that their race‚ religion‚ or way of life is correct and anything else is wrong. One example of this is in “The Man to Send the Rain Clouds.” The Laguna tribe had to hide the fact that their relative‚ Teofilo‚ had died. “Thank God for that. Teofilo is a very old man.” “No he won’t be doing that anymore now.” “Well‚ I’m glad you understand. I hope I’ll be seeing you at mass this week – we missed you last Sunday. See if you can get old Teofilo
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