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A 5 page research paper/essay that examines Ceremony by Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, which draws on the tradition and heritage of Pueblo Indians in order to demonstrate the significance of the narrative's setting. Silko emphasizes the psychic disconnect that Tayo has suffered between himself and the Earth, which is his "mother" according to Pueblo belief. In order to be whole again, Tayo must heal his relationship to the Earth and this is the context of his "ceremony." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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setting. Pueblo culture centers the process of individualization within an acute recognition of the interconnected nature of humanity to the environment. The novels protagonist, Tayo, has been wounded psychologically by
his combat experience during World War II. Throughout the narrative, Silko emphasizes the psychic disconnect that Tayo has suffered between himself and the Earth, which is his "mother" according to
Pueblo belief. In order to be whole again, Tayo must heal his relationship to the Earth and this is the context of his "ceremony." Tayos "disconnect" from the environment
began with his rage in the at the jungle rain, which he experienced during combat in the Pacific theatre. The rain was constant, and "grew like foliage from the sky"
(Silko 11). Due to the fact that Tayo cursed the rain, he feels a sense of responsibility for the seven years of drought that plague the Pueblo community. On returning
home, he views the "cloudless sky" and the "brown hills," looking like "shrinking skin and hide taught over sharp bone" as symbolic of his inner guilty (Silko 36). The Earth
itself reflects the psychic suffering of Tayo. The Anglo world has no understanding of Tayos suffering, which he tried to express to the doctors at the veterans hospital. He told
the doctors that he felt like "white smoke" and that he had "no consciousness" (Silko 14). With this allusion, Tayo tried to convey his feeling of having no identity; nothing
on which to base a sense of self. Part of Tayos psychic pain is his inability to accept the death of his cousin, who was like a brother to him,
and who died in combat. Part of it is due to the fact that Tayo could not accept the Anglo definition of the Japanese enemy as not being fully human,
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