Who Will Summon the Rain? The title "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" clearly shows the differences between the pagan Pueblo people and their white conquerors, represented here by Father Paul the foolish white priest. In the priest's Christian world, only God can send rain clouds, but in the Pueblo world, it is every man's task hereafter to speak to the cloud people and ask them to make rain for the living. ... When Ken and Leon discover Teofilo's body they immediately begin to prepare it for the journey to the next world: "Before they wrapped the old man, Leon took a...

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The message the author sends is contradicting earlier and later statements. ... This is the place where a wise man will dig his cellar"(pg93-94). Henry proves that lone living takes its effect on "a man thinking or working"(pg95)and therefore begins to wonder aimlessly. ... and such sympathy havethey ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds would shed their tears, and the woods shed their leavesin midsummer, if any man should for just a momentcause grieve" (pg96-97). ... Thoreau wants to send t...

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The Passion of a Storm "The Storm,"" written by Kate Chopin, opposes the ideas of the late nineteenth century by introducing the fulfillment of a woman's desires by a man in her position. ... As Alcee decides to stand on the porch, the weather forbids him and the rain forces him inside. ... The drama of the jolt sends her staggering into his arms, and the desire can no further be denied. ... The rain beat softly upon the shingles, inviting them to drowsiness and sleep. ... He beamed like the sun breaking through the thick, somber clouds of a passing rain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School