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How the Old Men Are Related in The Man to Send Rain Clouds and The Old Man of the Temple

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The Old Men Are Related
Comparisons Between Two Short Stories
Many intricate and renowned stories have been told over the history of humankind. Few have been linked and related to each other in the strangest of ways. Many people have critiqued and compared every last tantalizing detail in all of the stories and ripped them to their very meaning. When finding two stories that are very similar, you have to dip deep into their meanings and you have to find every single difference you can to bring the stories alive. The time and the place and the characters behaviors within their cultures are all extremely important factors. In the two stories The Man to Send Rain Clouds and The Old Man of the Temple, many bountiful similarities and differences can be found.
The most distinctive difference between the two stories is the settings which changes the plot line of the entire story. In The Man to Send Rain Clouds, the setting of this odd, sort of native land where death and rituals are all confused with the normality of what we normally know. The scene in the other story adds sort a mystery to the story, creating a very odd feeling, making it far more successful. The setting of the first story lends a sort of secretive feeling to the storyline, as the cart away the body, all of it eerily calm. In the second story, the mysterious and sort of ancient feeling of the story is well put with the background. Without the respective settings of the stories, the miniscule details and the

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