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This is a 5 page paper discussing the similarities between the central characters and how they view their native culture in the novels “Ceremony” by Leslie Silko and “From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story” by Irvin Morris. Additional comparisons and contrasts are made between the traditional tale of Coyote from Morris’ novel to that of Tayo in Silko’s novel.
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Morris. In both novels, the characters have been exposed to the white mans world and have to learn how to accept the changes and influences it has had upon their
culture. The character of Tayo in "Ceremony" has a great deal of difficulty accepting the white mans culture and his own and becomes physically and mentally ill because it. Morris
tells of his story and how he and his people have learned to accept the white mans influence on their own and it is this acceptance which let them continue
a strong survival. He tells a traditional story of an egocentric Coyote who because of his separatist nature becomes disturbed and violent. Tayo, undergoing a similar egocentrism, eventually learns how
to accept the mixture of the two cultures in the character of Betonie. When Tayo returns to his Pueblo culture suffering post traumatic
stress syndrome from World War II, he has already experienced a disappointment in his expectations of his white experience. Tayo expected to be accepted into the white culture when he
joined the army with his friends, Rocky and Emo, and was told by the recruiter, "Anyone can fight for America, even you boys" (Silko, 1977, 25). Reality hit however as
Rocky was killed, Emo became an alcoholic and Tayos condition was left uncured by white medicine (Austgen, 2002). Tayo again has experiences which are unexpected when he listens to
the tales of his cultures wanting traditional relationships between the earth and the deities and the elders only relate modernized stories to him about the magic and witchery of the
present world. Tayo feels a great deal of frustration when the elders veer away from the traditional stories and replace them with darker stories of witchery. Tayo has a difficult
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