The Man to Send Rain Atmosphere is a short story regarding the death of an old guy on a Pueblo Indian booking and the problems that arise coming from conflicting spiritual traditions and Christian traditions. As the story opens, the dead body of your old man have been found under a cottonwood shrub on an Of india reservation. The sheep that were under the aged mans proper care are grazing in dispersed locations down and up an regato (ravine). Two men, Leon and his brother-in-law Ken, have found the body, which has apparently been lying beneath the tree no less than a day.
Leon and Tobey maguire herd the sheep returning to the camp and go back by truck to the body. Ken has had a crimson blanket by which to place the body, however before this can be done, Leon ties a little grey feather in the old mans white-colored hair. Ken gives Leon some color and for this mans face. Leon chemicals a ability of white-colored across the guys forehead, green across the face, yellow under the nose, and green across the chin. When he is finished art work, Leon measures back and laughs at the encounter of this useless man, who will be his grand daddy. Leon demands the old man to send several rain clouds.
Leon and Ken encapsulate the body in the red blanket and place it inside the pickup truck prior to heading back for the Pueblo community. As the truck techniques the small town, Leon acknowledges the approaching car of Father Paul, the local parish priest. The priest actions for Leon to stop and asks Leon if aged Teofilo has been found. Leon replies that he and Ken have come from the older sheep camp, and anything is fine right now. The clergyman warns that at Teofilos age, the man must not be allowed to stroll by himself in the remote location anymore.
Leon affirms that will not happen again. The priest demands Leon and Ken if perhaps they will be participating mass about Sunday, motivating them to deliver Teofilo when he drives apart. At Leons house, Louise, Leons better half, is ready with a friend, Teresa. The women have prepared lunch, and in addition they listen to Leons story of actually finding Teofilo. Evidently, Teofilo acquired sat down under the cottonwood tree unwind, though he died shortly after. Leon understands that Louise has organized a new flannel shirt and pair of Levis in which Teofilos body will probably be dressed.
Leon and Ashton kutcher carry the red blanket-wrapped physique into the house, and Teofilo is ready for funeral in the fresh clothes. Leon, Ken, Louise and Teresa eat all their lunch of beans, hot bread and coffee. Ashton kutcher prepares to leave to create arrangements together with the gravediggers, whom should be able to have burial internet site prepared seeing that only the best layer of soil is definitely frozen even though it is very chilly. Neighbors begin to arrive bearing food and sympathy as news of Teofilos fatality begins to pass on in the town.
Later that day, following the funeral, Louise mentions to Leon that perhaps they need to ask Father Paul to sprinkle holy water in Teofilo to ensure that he wont be parched. Leon destin at his grandfathers body and considers this for a couple of minutes. He then leaves to see if the clergyman is available. Tobey maguire drops Leon off with the priests house and carries on on to the cemetery where other folks are waiting for the funeral. Father Paul is thrilled to see Leon and offers him a couch, but Leon declines it, saying that this individual has come simply to ask for holy water being brought to the cemetery.
The priest understands now that Teofilo is deceased and requires why he had not been notified so that he would have performed the final Rites. Leon protests that the ritual is not necessary, however the priest contends that for a Christian funeral the Last Rituals are indeed important. Leon tells Father Paul that every thing is fine, the family only wants Teofilo to have enough water. The priest simply cannot provide the holy water with no Last Rites and a funeral mass. Leon does not have any response and begins to keep. Father Paul leaves the bedroom and returns with his overcoat prepared to go with Leon to Teofilos serious.
As Leon and Father Paul descend the hillside to the cemetery, the sun is nearly set above the mesa, as well as the priest amazing things how the gravediggers were able to break the freezing ground. Father Paul studies the small group gathered with the gravesite ranking among the tumbleweeds. Father Paul focuses on the red quilt and believes the size is actually small to become Teofilos human body and miracles for a moment if the folks are playing some type of American indian prank in him. The priest simply cannot help although wonder if this really is just a practice to ensure a good harvest which Teofilo is in the sheep camp herding the head in for the night time.
Reality mixtures the priest back to the case at hand and he glances at the parishioners gathered in the waning light. The cold makes Daddy Pauls hands stiffen and removing the lid in the jar of holy normal water is hard. Soon, although, the priest has entry to the water and sprinkles the grave where moisture goes away immediately in to the sandy ground. Father Paul shakes the jar over the grave until the water is fully gone and the view reminds the priest of something, although it is not quite clear what.
The same wind that blows the priests robe now blows the pollen and corn meal which experienced also been over the burial plot. Teofilos body is lowered in the ground since the sun vanishes. Father Paul notes the lights with the cars on the highway and taking walks back up the hill toward his property. Leon wrist watches the priest leave and then turns to examine the snow-covered mountains inside the distance. Leon is happy that the assistance is over and the priest sprinkled the o water that may allow the old man to send big rain atmosphere.