“The_Man_To_Send_Rain_Clouds“

“The Man To Send Rain Clouds“ Initial Response To“The Man To Send Rain Clouds“ In the short story “The Man To Send Rain Clouds” written by Leslie Marmon Silko, it explains what happens when a family member passes while he is taking care of the sheep. There are many things the family members do before they get to bury their family member. Most of the rituals in the story seem to be possibly Indian rituals. They were hard to relate to because that is not what the living family members do “normally” when their family members die. The happenings in this story were a little confusing, until I thought about them being religious rituals. In the beginning of the story Leon and Ken whom found their grandfather, Teofilo dead at the sheep camp, they tie a gray feather in his hair and made paint marks on his face. After they do that they say, “Send us rain clouds, grandfather.”(pg1150) When I first read this I didn’t understand. When I thought about how Indian people paint their bodies for heritage or religious reasons I thought about it all making sense. In the beginning of the story they tie Teofilo up in a red blankets. At first I did send, rain, clouds, story, about, priest, thought, red, didn’t, family, blanket, because, after, understand, rituals, found, confusing, beginning, tiofilo, teofilo, scene, say, realized, paint, out, members, man, just, first, end, confused, brought, water, wanted, understood