Read the following excerpt from leslie marmon silko’s story "the man to send rain clouds."the sky in the west was full of pale yellow light. louise stood outside with her hands in the pockets of leon's green army jacket that was too big for her. the funeral was over, and the old men had taken their candles and medicine bags and were gone. she waited until the body was laid into the pickup before she said anything to leon. she touched his arm, and he noticed that her hands were still dusty from the corn meal that she had sprinkled around the old man. when she spoke, leon could not hear her. which detail in this excerpt indicates that leon and his family still carry out traditional pueblo practices? a.) the funeral service and the candlesb.) the sky in the west and the pale yellow lightc.) the body in the pickup and the army jacketd.) the medicine bags and the sprinkled cornmeal

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”