"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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When the word tradition is mention‚ people think of it as an activity of a ceremony or religion activity. Furthermore‚ tradition is passed down generation to generation doing the same thing knowingly it is the right thing to do. Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery" and Leslie Marmon 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
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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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To be accepted into the modern 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
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director of the United States Information Agency and was the ambassador to Finland. Unforgettable Miss Bessie Carl T. Rowan She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 100 pounds‚ but Miss Bessie was a towering presence in the classroom. She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf and think for a few foolish days that I liked it From 1938 to 1942‚ when I attended Bernard High School in McMinnville‚ Tenn.‚ she taught me English‚ history‚ civics—and a
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with a misguided moral code. When she prepares for the trip with fellow family members‚ she dresses in the manner the authors suggests she is prepared for an accident and wants the people viewing her dead body to see it as that of a lady. The grandmother is less concerned about the fact that she will already be dead and maybe her grandchildren will also be dead. What is of more concern to her is being viewed as a lady which reveals her moral conviction and selfishness. When she is involved in an accident
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Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman was born on January 26‚ 1892 to Susan and George Coleman who had a large family in Texas. At the time of Bessie’s birth‚ her parents had already been married for seventeen years and already had nine children‚ Bessie was the tenth‚ and she would later have twelve brothers and sisters. Even when she was small‚ Bessie had to deal with issues about race. Her father was of African American and Cherokee Indian decent‚ and her mother was black which made it difficult from the
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use nature as its symbols. The rain is one of the most significant symbols in the book. The rain can mean many different things‚ but all serving as bad effects. The rain is an important part of this book because it tells the reader more about the things going on throughout the novel. The rain is the most significant symbol in the book. The novel portrays rain as something bad or something bad that is going to happen. It is used in many different ways. In the novel rain is represented as good and bad
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QUESTIONS a) When it is considered that rain is acid? = The pH scale measures how acidic an object is‚ when pH is lower than 7 rain is considered acid. b) Which are the compounds that in contact with water origin acid rain? = Compounds like sulfur sulphuric and nitric acids. c) Which are the principal causes of these compounds? = The extra acidity in rain comes from the reaction of primary air pollutants‚ primarily sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides‚ with water in the air to form strong
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Bessie J. Blount African-American Inventor & Forensic Scientist Bessie Blount Griffin was born on November 24‚ 1914 in Hickory‚ VA‚ present day Chesapeake‚ VA. She studied at both Panzar College of Physical Education and at Union Junior College in New Jersey. Prior to being deployed as a nurse during World War II‚ she studied physical therapy in Chicago. During her childhood‚ her stubborn streak showed when at 7 she was reprimanded for writing with her left hand; she decided to learn to
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