The presence of bare cottonwoods and wide sandy arroyo still tells that there was no rainfall for a long time.Īs the story continues, Leon looks at the sun and unzips his jacket a sign that it was hot. When Leon and his brother -in-law went looking for Teofilo, only to find him dead, Leon stood under a tree as he waited for Ken again giving more evidence that the sun was scorching (Lesli1). This shows that the old man had taken rest under the cotton tree to protect his body from the scorching sun when he died. The concept of drought or lack of water is introduced in the very beginning of the story when Teofilo is found dead under a dry cottonwood tree (Lesli1).
The main character is an old man by the name Teofilo whose work is to look after the sheep and return them to the sheep camp where he looks after them over the night. In the Story “The man to send rain clouds” by Silko, the central conflict is lack of rain or drought. At times the central conflict in a story can be the burning issue in the story that needs to be addressed or resolved (Fog & Budtz, 66). If there is no central conflict then a story does not exist since other characters and themes revolve around the central conflict to make a story. “The Sterility of Their Art”: Masculinity and the Western in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, by Lydia R.The central conflict in a story is normally the fight between the main character and other things that hinder him or her from achieving or accomplishing something that he or she wants (Garfinkel, 44). The Only Cure Is a Dance: The Role of Night Swan in Silko’s Ceremony, by Tara Causey She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981 and the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon born March 5, 1948) is a Laguna Pueblo writer and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
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