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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 …show more content…

So he won't be thirsty." • Leon gets in the truck and goes down to the church to see if the priest is there. • Leon asks the priest tobring his "holy water to the graveyard," and the priest tells him he could have "brought the last rights" if he had told him he was dead before. • Leon tells him it wasn't necessary because they "just want him to have plenty of water" • The priest tells Leon that he "can't do that, Leon. There should have been the last rights and a funeral mass at the very least," and then Leon politely starts to leave. • Before Leon can leave the priest decides he'd do it for him anyway and goes to the graveyard with Leon. • The priest sprinkles holy water on Teofilo and leaves. Then Leon finally feels "good because it was finished, and he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water, now the old man could send them big thunderclouds for sure." Characters Principle Characters Teofilo, an old sheepherder Louise, his granddaughter, proper in her place, only talks to Her husband when he is alone Ken, her husband, respectful of old ways, wishes to honor his Grandfather Leon, Ken's brother-in-law Father Paul, a Franciscan missionary, is unsure of is new Parishners but would like to keep them happy Teofilo, who was the elder of the clan, died while he was herding his sheep. Ken, who has Teofilo's grandson-in-law, went off with Leon his

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