Analysis on the Man to Send Rain Clouds
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 really be appreciated.
Plot Summary One
Teofilo is at the sheep camp in the arroyo when he rests in the shade under a cotton tree and dies.
After Teofilo missing for a few days, Leon and Ken come looking for him and find that he "had been dead for a day or more, and the sheep had wandered and scattered up and down the arroyo."
They gather the sheep and then come back to wrap Teofilo up in a red blanket.
They paint his face with different colors and ask him to send them rain.
On Leon and Ken's way back into pueblow (town) they see Father Paul, who asked if they found their missing grandfather yet, and they tell him where they found him, but not that he's dead. "Good Morning, father. We were just out to the sheep camp. Everything is o.k. now."
Two
Louise and Teresa are waiting for them to get back with any news about Teofilo.
Leon tells the girls that they found Teofilo died near "a cottonwood tree in the big arroyo near sheep camp."
Leon and Ken carry in red blanket with teofilo's body, dress him in new clothes to be buried in.
After a quiet lunch, Ken went to see when the gravediggers could have the grave ready, "I think it can be ready before dark."
Neighbors and clans people come by their house to console Teofilo's family and leave food for the gravediggers.
Three
After the funeral, Louise tells her brother Leon that she wants the priest to sprinkle "holy water for grandpa. So he won't be thirsty."
Leon gets in the truck and goes down to
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 really be appreciated.
Plot Summary One
Teofilo is at the sheep camp in the arroyo when he rests in the shade under a cotton tree and dies.
After Teofilo missing for a few days, Leon and Ken come looking for him and find that he "had been dead for a day or more, and the sheep had wandered and scattered up and down the arroyo."
They gather the sheep and then come back to wrap Teofilo up in a red blanket.
They paint his face with different colors and ask him to send them rain.
On Leon and Ken's way back into pueblow (town) they see Father Paul, who asked if they found their missing grandfather yet, and they tell him where they found him, but not that he's dead. "Good Morning, father. We were just out to the sheep camp. Everything is o.k. now."
Two
Louise and Teresa are waiting for them to get back with any news about Teofilo.
Leon tells the girls that they found Teofilo died near "a cottonwood tree in the big arroyo near sheep camp."
Leon and Ken carry in red blanket with teofilo's body, dress him in new clothes to be buried in.
After a quiet lunch, Ken went to see when the gravediggers could have the grave ready, "I think it can be ready before dark."
Neighbors and clans people come by their house to console Teofilo's family and leave food for the gravediggers.
Three
After the funeral, Louise tells her brother Leon that she wants the priest to sprinkle "holy water for grandpa. So he won't be thirsty."
Leon gets in the truck and goes down to