Read the following excerpt from Leslie Marmon Silko's story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds." We found him under a cotton wood tree in the big arroyo near sheep camp. I guess he sat down to rest in the shade and never got up again. Leon walked toward the old man's bed. The red plaid shawl had been shaken and spread carefully over the bed, and a new brown flannel shirt and pair of stiff new Levi's were arranged neatly beside the pillow. Louise held the screen door open while Leon and Ken carried in the red blanket. He looked small and shriveled, and after they dressed him in the new shirt and pants he seemed more shrunken. What detail from this excerpt best symbolizes traditional Pueblo culture?
a. the cottonwood tree.
b. the new brown shirt.
c. the old man's bed.
d. the red blanket.

The detail from this excerpt that best symbolizes traditional Pueblo culture is; d. the red blanket.

Culture refers to the people's way of life. There are different factors that are pointers to the culture of a people. Their dressing, food, and entertainment are indicative of their culture.

The way in which the red blanket was carried in shows that it has some special connotation in the Pueblo culture.

So the detail from the excerpt that is symbolic of Pueblo culture is the Red Blanket.

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D.

Explanation:

In the short story "The Man to Send Rain Clouds," the symbol of traditional Pueblo Culture is represented in using of the red blanket.

Puebloans are the Native Americans situated in the Southwest part of the United States. In the short story, Leslie has tried to portray the culture of Puebloans.

The red blanket in the Pueblo tradition symbolised hiding. When Leon and Ken carried the corpse of Teofil to the family, his body was wrapped in the red blanket which prevented the family to view his face. This ritual is peculiar and the meaning of this ritual is hidden.

So, the correct answer is option D.

autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.