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A 3 page essay that analyzes Silko's novel Ceremony, which draws directly from Native American culture and myth. As such, the structure of the novel departs from the standard European-derived paradigm, as Silko grounds her narrative within Pueblo oral tradition. the writer discusses the various aspects of the novel that accomplish this purpose. No additional sources cited.
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grounds her narrative within Pueblo oral tradition. This is clear from the manner in which Silko begins Ceremony with three poems. The first poem concerns Tsitstsinako, Thought-Woman, the spider,
who creates the world with her sisters by thinking and naming things. This poem ends with lines that indicate that the story that follows is the story that Thought-Woman is
thinking. This places Silkos novel within the context and framework provided by Native American oral tradition and associates the act of storytelling with primal creation. Ceremonys protagonist is Tayo, a
Pueblo Native American returning home after fighting in World War II. However, due to the manner in which Silko frames this story, she makes it clear that this is more
than a story about a Native American, but is rather a Native American story, a story told in the tradition and heritage of Tayos culture. Tayo returns from the
war, sick in his soul, conflicted over having killed people (Japanese soldiers) who remind him so much of his Uncle Josiah. He tells the white doctor at the VA hospital
that he is like "white smoke" because it has no consciousness of itself" (Silko 14). His experiences fighting in the war have emptied Tayo of his sense of self and
he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the earth itself and the environment. Silko makes this connection explicit
by writing that Tayo believes that he alienated himself from Mother Earth by cursing the jungle rain that "grew like foliage from the sky" (Silko 11). Furthermore, Tayo believes
that his cursing the jungle rain brought on the drought that has severely affected home. Everywhere he looks there is "cloudless sky" and "brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut
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