Talk:The Rain God

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Stub as long as the article is nothing is ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorifiable azs nothing is referenced of cited. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 15:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's a (BIG) mess too -- I'm not sure why some of the sections are included at all.... Aristophanes68 (talk) 23:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

City in the book[edit]

Although the book does not specifically name the city in which most of the events take place, it is made quite obvious to anyone familiar with the US-Mexican borderlands. Some clues:

The landscape is repeatedly discussed - a military base, mountains, most importantly the Rio Grande. From this we know: it is a border city that it in the desert, but it is also in Texas, and there are mountains outside of it.
Arturo Islas himself hails from El Paso.
In at least one part of the book, the phrase "across the border in Juarez" is used. This alone means that the "unnamed" desert city could actually not be any city besides El Paso, as it is the only "desert city" across the Rio Grande from Cd. Juarez.

Also, there is no mention in the article (from what I can tell) of the parallels between Islas' own life and that of Miguel Chico. I got the distinct feeling from the beginning of the book that Miguel Chico was written as a gay character (Islas was gay). Much like Islas, he goes to university in the bay area, and again much like Islas, he pursues an advanced degree. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.169.57.242 (talk) 12:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]