The role of the individual and their relationship with the community is an important thematic issue that is observed in the works of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. ... Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony uses the protagonist Tayo to tell his story, but the narrative is disturbed by analepsis memories, initially when he is still "sick;" the narrative is also disrupted by Silko's use of myth, both traditional Native American myths and contemporary interpretations of the myth form. ... Silko allows two women, who are minor female characte...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Leslie Marmon Silko writes of a torn character, Tayo, in her book Ceremony. ... That is why Ku"oosh's ceremony did little to ease Tayo's pain. ... Silko utilizes two vehicles to express the duality within Tayo. ... When Humming Bird completes a portion of the ceremony Tayo completes a portion. This book is indeed a ceremony in itself; Silko may have written it to find her own personal identity. ...

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Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony is the story of a young man, Tayo, who has been ostracized from society since a very young age. Ceremony details profound trials and tribulations that Tayo encounters throughout his life. ... As Silko explains, "When she was alone with the boys, she kept Rocky close to her . . . ... With the help of a medicine man, Old Betonie, Tayo began a quest that turns into a healing ceremony. ... However, Silko says the White are also victim of their own atrocity. ...

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CONNECTIONS WITH NATURE In Ceremony, Leslie Silko makes a connection in the novel between the spotted cattle and Tayo, and then obscures them until it is difficult to decide where one ends and the other begins. ... The spotted cattle are everywhere in Ceremony, but they are nowhere by accident. ... Here Silko makes the connection with Tayo and the spotted cattle, by their appearance. ... If you separate them from the land for too long, keep them in barns and corrals, they lose something" (Silko 74). ... Army), Silko plainly draws the line between Tayo and the cattle. ...

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It is revealed in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony that Native American culture suffered greatly during and after WWII, and continually suffers with the destruction of reservations. ... In Ceremony Tayo, the main character is merging with the earth rather than trying to own it (Silko, 202). ... In Ceremony, Christianity is compared to liquor. ... In Silko's Ceremony three of the pueblo boys, Tayo, Rocky, and Emo believe they have finally found access to the white world when an army recruiter tells them, "Anyone can fight for America, even you boys"(Silko, 25). ... In Ceremony...

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Leslie Marmon Silko's 1977 novel Ceremony provides an introspective view of a half Native American, half white man named Tayo while essentially providing all of society with a new prospective at life and exhibiting how assimilation into a new culture can be attained through many different means. ... Even the derisory army recruiter says to Rocky as he and Tayo enlist, "Anyone can fight for America, even you boys" (Silko, 64). ... He had to win" (Silko, 51). ... Rocky, on the other hand, "deliberately avoided the old-time ways" (Silko, 51) and ended up destroyed. Silko realizes that emanc...

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The costs of total war, mobilization, and the end to modernity ultimately led to drastic shifts in the perceptions of identity across the globe, which led to decolonization and the birth to new nations, and whether or not the assimilation and abandonment of old traditional ways of life, as is the case presented by Leslie Marmon Silko in the novel Ceremony. In the novel Ceremony, Silko displayed how the identities of Native Americans who participated in World War II, fighting for the U.S., shifted from the time they were enlisted to their homecoming and how the assimilation and integration o...

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However, even today many Indians, even among their young people, still find strength and meaning in their religious beliefs and ceremonies. The school curriculums omitted the riches of the ceremonies and religious beliefs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School