Summary of "The Man to Send Rain Clouds"

Leslie Marmon Silko’s story entitled The Man to Send Rain Clouds describes a funeral service carried out by a Native American Pueblo family. Though many perceive the funeral

The story I'm choosing is The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. The theme of the story is about the strength of Native American customs and traditions and bridging the gap between Native American customs and Christian customs. The author uses the setting and the mood to surface the theme throughout the story. The Man to Send Rain Clouds helps to set up a recurring theme that Silko will use in many of her other stories.

Suddenly looking around himself, the child begins to notice the outbuildings as if they were familiar to him and realizes that he is not at a plantation he has never seen before, but is instead watching his own home that he had left earlier that afternoon burn to the ground. Upon this realization the boy begins to run around the conflagration, and comes upon the prostrate body of

The short story “The Man to Send Rain Clouds” by Leslie Marmon Silko is a deceptively simple narrative about the death and funeral of an old man of the Laguna Pueblo tribe of Native Americans. Set in the desert southwest of the United States, the story is narrated from an omniscient point of view, and describes the discovery of the old man’s body, the preparation of the body for burial, and the interaction between the family of the dead man and the Catholic priest who lives on the reservation. The author uses very simple language and unsophisticated descriptions to describe an intricate and complex relationship between the Christian culture of the priest and the religious culture of the Pueblo culture. Descriptions of the bleak landscape

The Man to Send Rain Clouds is a short story based on the death of a very old man at the Pueblo Indian reservation. This results to various issues from the conflicting spiritual aspects and Christianity aspects. At the beginning of the story, the body of the old man is identified lying under a cottonwood tree in the indicant reservation. The sheep owned by the old man are scattered in all locations of the arroyo Lavine. The two men who identify the body are Leon and Ken and they manage to bring back the camp where they found the old man’s body. The story focuses on the life of individuals in Laguna, New Mexico. It is written during the 1960s when there was an interest on the indigenous cultures in America. During the period, diverse

In 1952, author George Sessions Perry wrote about a small town in central Texas named Rockdale. The article, written for The Saturday Evening Post, dubbed the community “The Town Where it Rains Money.” Perry tells of an Alcoa plant coming to town and drastically changing the community with an influx of money. The manufacturer transformed Rockdale from a small dot that somehow made itself onto a map into a community that saw its population double in less than a decade; with it, brought many jobs.

Released in 1988, writers Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow created a compelling story by introducing many to the world of autism. These two writers brilliantly plotted the dramatic story of a brother's greed developing into love in the 1988 Oscar winning movie Rain Man. Charlie Babbitt, the first main character played by Tom Cruise, is an arrogant, selfish businessman, striving to be wealthy, but his business is failing. The second main character in the film is Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman, who is an autistic savant who lives and is cared for at a mental institution. Charlie receives word that his father, whom he hasn't had contact with in years, has deceased. His father left an inheritance to Charlie and his unknown (or

The Godmother made a curtsey to Brenda and her father as a sign of Ryanite courtesy. She then asked them, “Are the two of you here to send condolences to State Chancellor Harold S. Brotzman?”

. . . Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith, and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying

In, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”, an old man, Teofilo, dies and his grandson Leon plans the funeral. Momaday writes about his own grandmother in “The Way to Rainy Mountain”. Both Leon and Momaday remember their grandparents as a link to their Native American heritage. Momaday writes the story when he goes on a pilgrimage to visit Rainy Mountain. He traveled down to remember his grandmother, who had died. On his trip, he makes observations about the geography of the plains and Rainy Mountain. He recalls the stories his grandmother told him and learns more about the Kiowa culture and history. Leon and Teofilo are a part of the Laguna tribe. When Leon finds Teofilo, he paints his face and performs other Laguna traditions. He plans to have a traditional funeral to honor Teofilo. Where they live, there is a Christian church that is trying to convert people. Most attend church regularly but some, like Leon, are more skeptical of this new religion. When Louise suggests asking Father Paul, the priest, to pour Holy Water on Teofilo’s grave, Leon is unsure. It is believed that the Holy Water

The priest sprinkles holy water on Teofilo and leaves. Then Leon finally feels "good because it was finished, and he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water, now the old man could send them big thunderclouds for sure."

The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was made in 1988. The movie is about an autistic man named Raymon, who is a idiot savant played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking self absorbed, egocentric brother Charlie Babbitt, who is played by Tom Cruise. A egocentric person is a person with the simple recognition that every living thing views the world from a unique, self-oriented perspective(LIFE: Inherently Egocentric written by James Craig Green http://pw2.netcom.com/~zeno7/ego.html).

Feminist American author, Kate Chopin, is known for her stories with strong and daring female lead stories. Her common themes display women, femininity, marriage, liberation, oppression, and perseverance. The Louisiana based novelist famous works started the feminist movement. Chopin’s stories The Story of an Hour and The Storm have many similarities and differences as do the majority of her work. The main characters, Calixta and Mrs. Mallard, both portray an odd attitude towards marriage.

for their sins, and the priests, for their lack of concern. He closes by saying

Last of all, digging up the coffin of Oskar’s father could be a catharsis for both Oskar and his grandfather. For both of them it is a purging of emotions, for obvious reasons. Whether it creates closure is the question. For Oskar it does not create closure. He expects it will, but the empty coffin shocks him. “Or maybe I was surprised by how empty is was. I felt like I was looking into the dictionary definition of emptiness.”