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A 4 page paper which analyzes the theme and setting in Leslie Marmon Silko’s short story “The Man to Send the Rain Clouds.” No additional sources cited.
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had really addressed. Her life and childhood upbringing led to her to write of her people, a mixed people, that most people are unaware of. She grew up, Native American
and white for the most part, on a New Mexico reservation. Her experiences with her relatives and others led her to a point where she is able to present very
powerful images of how these cultures clash, but also mix as the people of the reservation adjusted and searched for their own unique identity. One of her stories is "The
Man to Send the Rain Clouds." The following paper analyzes the theme and the setting in this short story. Theme Bearing in mind the information presented in the
introduction, concerning Silkos own life, we see that one of the most powerful aspects of thematic presence in this story involves the coming together of the white mans world, through
the Catholic religion, and the Natives world through the death of one man. We see two characters find this man, apparently old, dead amidst the sheep we assume he may
have been tending. They are not surprised, incredibly depressed, or otherwise severely shaken. Yet, they know what they must do. They gather together the materials to do what is
right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wrapping for his burial. One
of them then said "Send us rain clouds, Grandfather." We do not need to know the symbolic meanings behind this to know that it is a very powerful statement and
likely a very natural and respectful statement to say at the death of an individual once all of the procedures of wrapping the red blanket are done. We do not
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