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A 6 page essay that discusses how in her complex novel Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko presents a conceptualization of the Native American process of individualization has being grounded in an acute awareness of humanity's interconnectedness with the environment. The narrative features a protagonist, Tayo, who has been traumatized by his combat experience during World War II. Throughout the novel, Silko focuses on the disconnect that Tayo has experienced between himself and "his mother," which, according to Native American belief, is the Earth itself. In order to become whole once again, Tayo must reconnect with the Earth, as this is the relationship that is primarily responsible for determining how an individual not only relates to the world, but finds definition and identity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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with the environment. The narrative features a protagonist, Tayo, who has been traumatized by his combat experience during World War II. Throughout the novel, Silko focuses on the disconnect that
Tayo has experienced between himself and "his mother," which, according to Native American belief, is the Earth itself. In order to become whole once again, Tayor must reconnect with the
Earth, as this is the relationship that is primarily responsible for determining how an individual not only relates to the world, but finds definition and identity. As the novel opens,
Tayo is symbolically and literally "motherless," with no biological mother to turn to for support and he is emotionally isolated from the world. At the veterans hospital where Tayo was
treated, he tried to express his internal emptiness to the doctors, saying that he was "white smoke," as he had "no consciousness."1 Tayo was trying to indicate by this metaphor
that he felt that he had no identity, no foundation on which to base or define himself. His wartime experience has robbed Tayo has his sense of self and left
him disconnected and feeling that everything in the world is "other." Silko is overt in showing that Tayo considers his disconnect to stem from the fact that he purposefully
alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."2 Because he cursed the rain, Tayo feels responsible for
a seven years drought, which has parched his home. The "cloudless sky" and the "brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut over sharp bone" are seen by Tayo as indictments
against him.3 As this indicates, the Earth, in this novel, is not seen as something apart from human experience, but as intrinsically connected to the happenings of human consciousness. This
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