A Weather Prophet

 Guest Post by Jonathan Santiago

My character’s name is Joe. He is a 26-year-old white man who was always curious about the weather and who was also in desperate need of a job. This is how he ended up stumbling upon the career work of a weather prophet. He made good money banking on the curiosity of folks and even increased his prestige further after his publication UNDERSTANDING THE SKY gained a lot of traction. He wanted to keep this job; however, with the advancement of science as well as educated folk like increase Lapham around, things were not exactly in his favor, which greatly upset him considering the reputation he’s built for himself. So, as you can imagine, he was not happy when the huge first Milwaukee weather forecast event went down.

As indicated above, my Twitter character is known as a weather prophet. They were those that used to predict the weather since there was no way of telling what the weather would be like day in and day out. Therefore, they took on the responsibility to predict and prophesize the weather to people and would gain attention since no one knew what the weather would be like before Increase Lapham came along. They were real people I believe who used symbolism and folklore to make their weather predictions. They did not think fondly of those who were involved in science as well as other educated folk who were in the field of weather forecasting because they had seen this as a loss to their business and prestige. Their relationship with the theme of the Twitter re-enactment is that they would predict the weather before Increase Lapham came along, so with the huge event of the first weather forecast this would surely not only affect the people but also the weather prophets as well. They would also try to discredit increase Lapham or others in general who were involved since this event affects their livelihood.