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CeremonyLeslie Marmon Silko’s use of poetry in the opening pages of her novel, Ceremony, serves to accentuate the genre boundaries in Western literature and to prompt the reader to examine the falseness of...
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CeremonyIn Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, the hazel eye color is actually pretty significant. One of the major themes in the story is the Native American struggle to maintain their culture from the...
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CeremonySetting is quite important in "Ceremony," and it influences a number of things. In a broad sense, it influences Tayo's entire character—even his identity. He is who he is because he's...
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CeremonyThe "lie" in this text which has everything to do with the relationships between the indigenous people of America and the whites who came and took their land and engaged in a process of trying to...
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CeremonyIn Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, the writer uses symbolism through color to great effect. In particular, the colors of the sky are used to establish the feeling and meaning of scenes....
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CeremonyLeslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony is nonlinear in its use of time, and this is evidenced by the continual flashbacks and forwards that the story makes. Further, the narrative is not all prose,...
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CeremonyThe literal answer is that Tayo and Rocky (cousins who were raised as brothers, although Rocky was always treated better) fought during WWII in Japan. At one point, Tayo refuses to kill a Japanese...
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CeremonyCeremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is a philosophical look into the nature of war and the importance of cultural traditions. The book's intended audience is anyone who wants to learn about Native...
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CeremonyIn plot terms, the phrase exposition is used to refer to the initial presentation of the main characters of a text and the conflict that is the focus of the text. In this excellent novel, the...
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CeremonyTayo is edging toward healing. We know this in part because his healing is foreshadowed by the story he instinctively tells during the rain. The story, told while trying to hold on to the blanket...
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CeremonyEvery work of fiction contains a number of different symbols, however in this text, one of the major symbols that relates so closely to its theme of the lack of comprehension shown by the whites of...
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CeremonyLeslie Marmon Silko writes in a postmodernist style of fragmented, or fractured, time in Ceremony because this is the best way to show (1) Tayo's own personal fragmentation, (2) Tayo's...
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CeremonyThis novel is about the culture clash between Native Americans and Americans. In the Native American worldview, magic, mysticism and the supernatural are part of their religion and their lives....
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CeremonyJosiah's mixed-breed cattle are white with brown speckles. They form an obvious symbol of racial mixture and change. Tayo himself is the product of just such a mixture, being born to a white man...
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CeremonyEmo grows increasingly disturbed by his experiences of war. He's becoming a danger to himself and to those around him. His life consists of little more than sitting around getting drunk and...
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CeremonyOn page 260 (of my edition), right before the end of the book, Grandma says, "It seems like I already heard these stories before…only thing is, the names sound different."That line sums...
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CeremonyTrying to link Dewey's analysis of art and experience to any work will take much more than the space allotted here. This should be stated on the outset. If we are looking for broad strokes, I...
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CeremonyLeslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony is a book which provides a variety of angles by which one could do additional research. Your question isn’t completely clear, but I will give you a few options in...