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Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony", 2002.
This paper discusses Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" in the context of how the author emphasizes stories as a vehicle to healing.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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Tayo finds redemption by realizing the importance of ceremony. Silko's ceremony, therefore, serves as a vehicle to integration, fusing the individual not only with him/herself, but also with the community and the entire spiritual world.
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Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony", 2006.
An analysis of the style in "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
1,191 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses the novel, "Ceremony", by Leslie Marmon Silko. The paper analyzes the way in which myths and prose work together in the story and the effect that this creates. The papers also compares Silko's style in "Ceremony" to later works of her's and discusses some of the differences that are found between her earlier work and her later ones.
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"The publication of her widely praised first novel Ceremony in 1977 established Leslie Marmon Silko as a notable new talent in contemporary American literature. Modifying the traditional novel to reflect her Native American culture, Silko revealed a willingness to experiment with form that would continue to characterize her writing. The long-awaited Almanac of the Dead (1991) exhibited new facets of her extraordinary talent: this second novel is more complex, more shocking, and more apocalyptic than Ceremony in fact, than any other novel of the latter part of the century. Poised between these two texts, the collection of short fiction, photographs, and autobiography entitled Storyteller (1981) confirmed Silko's determination to alter traditional Euro-American literary forms to accommodate her own heritage."
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"Desert Solitaire" and "Ceremony", 2002.
A comparison of "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey and "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper is on the texts "Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko". It includes the way both Abbey and Tayo (from Silko's Ceremony) share the impulse. It also discusses how this process works for both of them and whether it functions in the same way or both. What does it mean for each to identify with nature? Why do they wish to do so? How fully do they succeed, and what do they learn about the limits that they confront to this effort?
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Standing on Ceremony, 2002.
An analysis of the character development in the novel "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmo Silko.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper presents a detailed discussion about the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmo Silko. The writer of this paper discusses the way Silko develops her characters and why she may have constructed them the way she did.
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"Ceremony" and "The Long Goodbye", 2005.
Comparison of "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko and "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler.
1,624 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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At first glance, "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko and "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler seem to have nothing in common. The former represents the psychological struggle of Native Americans in their search for identity in the United States, while the latter seems the usual detective story Marlowe has created. This paper, however, points out that there are several underlying motives and structures that do not make an attempt at comparing the two works futile. One would be a comparison between the two main characters, while another may compare the story's plot and the irony techniques that the writers use.
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"Tayo's suffering is physical, but, most of all, emotional and psychological. His distress does not come only from his imprisonment in Japan during the war, but also from his torment related to his place as a half Native American in the American post-war society. Integration seems, in the beginning, impossible for Tayo. This comes from his double ethnicity which means that he may be rejected by both societies. In many ways, this is something that Leslie Marmon Silko has experienced herself."
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"Ceremony", 2004.
A discussion of Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony".
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper presents a review of the book "Ceremony" written by Leslie Marmon Silko. The paper examines how Silko melds the themes of the difficulties of simply being an Indian in America with the difficulties of post-traumatic stress syndrome in returning World War II veterans. The paper focuses on the 'battle-fatigued' protagonist, Tayo, the product of a native and a Caucasian couple.
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"As a solider, Tayo experienced approval from Whites, but it was a false approval, only given to him because he was ready to be killed for White America, and a White cause. After his usefulness to America as a Marine has been expended, Tayo finds himself where other Indians who were cruelly treated by the American government are-back on a reservation, with nothing to show for his suffering. But from a narrative point of view, author's Silko's setting of a reservation enables her to weave ancient Pueblo Indian myths and songs, as well as Indian female experiences with the struggles and eventual coming of age of this troubled GI protagonist. "
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Myth in "Ceremony", 2004.
This is an analytical essay, with the thesis that mythology is the core of "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes the novel "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko with the thesis that mythology is the core of the novel. The paper discusses the universality of myths as the central theme.
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"Mythology is an integral part of the protagonist Tayo's journey in "Ceremony." Although it is the Laguna people and their stories that form the backbone of the novel, the myths that Leslie Marmon Silko uses are archetypes found not only in Native American mythology but in Judeo-Christian tradition as well as other cultures. The universality of these myths is the central theme to "Ceremony," that by accepting these myths and his role within them, Tayo is able to find fulfillment."
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"Ceremony", 2009.
A review of Leslie Marmon Silko's book "Ceremony".
1,258 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 42.95
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This paper analyzes Leslie Marmon Silko's book, "Ceremony", and shows how it is primarily about Silko's search for ways to deal with violence, rigidity of life, and loss of meaning and identity in America, as experienced by Native-Americans. The paper details the struggles experienced by Tayo, the main character, and relates that reading the novel is a confusing experience because it is difficult to understand one's own role in these processes. The paper then posits, however, that stories like this are an important tool for exposing the awkward stance many take towards Native-American issues.
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"Ceremony consists of the search of the radical voice of author Leslie Marmon Silko for ways to deal with violence, rigidity of life, loss of meaning and identity in America, which carry to great extremes the themes of heterogeneity, fragmentariness and meaninglessness in an experimental form. Tayo, the main character, returns from the Second World War with post-traumatic stress syndrome and struggles to assimilate into a society foreign to him. Meanwhile, as I read about Tayo's struggles I felt myself engaged in a parallel but opposite struggle to sympathize with a Native American narrative. As a white reader, I felt confused about my role in the healing narrative of Tayo; I felt alienated and other as well as responsible for Tayo's and the Native American population's alienation."
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"Ceremony", 2006.
A review of the novel "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper studies "Ceremony", a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko about native Americans. The paper analyzes how the novel seems to be focused on the most minute, bleak and tawdry details and yet it is actually commenting on the broadest realities, the deepest human longings and powers. The author of this paper demonstrates how Silko is microscopic in her portrayal of Tayo, the novel's main character. Through a discussion of Tayo's life experiences, character development and emotions, the paper asserts that Silko ultimately contrives her books so that Tayo can finally see the pattern -- the way in which all his stories fit together.
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"Silko can be unrelentingly microscopic in her attention to detail. She tells you more than you ever wanted to know about what it feels like to be really drunk, and really poor, and totally desperate, and guilty, and remorseful. She captures the dismal ambiance of cheap bars in Gallup, makes you know what it feels like to be a native American in despair at the loss of his people's honor and dignity--not to mention their land and their heritage. But she doesn't tell you in an elevated tone, through an essay or a lecture. She hits you at a gut level with all the violence and the vomit that accompanies alcoholism, poverty, and hopelessness. Silko doesn't just say that whites and Indians mistrust each other and treat each other badly. She uses the way Tayo's Auntie Thema, a Christian Indian, treats her half-white nephew, her subtle facial expressions and unexpressed anger and embarrassment, to reveal the subtleties of hatred and mistrust that characterize the underlying racial themes of the book."
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Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony", 2008.
This paper reviews the novel "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
1,154 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 39.95
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The paper looks at how Silko brings out the conflict between traditionalism and modernity in Native-American life in her novel "Ceremony". The paper discusses how the central character, Tayo, rediscovers his heritage in a moment of crisis and learns how that heritage was taken away by the white culture that still dominates his people. The paper highlights the theme of discovery of the past and its relevance to the present.
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"Silko's young American Indian Tayo has faced a personal crisis as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and his search for his roots on the reservation is a desperate need for an anchor for his life, something to hold after the horrors of war. The continuation of the way white society views Native American society is seen in the admonition by the Army doctor for "no Indian medicine" (p. 34). Tayo looks to the stories and ceremonies of his ancestors for comfort and finds resentment and anger as well as he remembers what the white settlers did to his people: "He lay there and hated them. Not for what they wanted to do with him, but for what they did to the earth with their machines, and to the animals with their packs of dogs and their guns. It happened again and again, and the people had to watch, unable to save or to protect any of the things that were so important to them. . . He wanted to kick the soft white bodies into the Atlantic Ocean; he wanted to scream to all of them that they were trespassers and thieves" (pp. 203-204)."
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"Ceremony", 2005.
An analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony".
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper analyzes the use of medicine in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony". It discusses the disorders suffered by the protagonist Tayo, and how his ailments are treated by two different kinds of medicine namely, traditional western medicine and Native American medicine. It also explores the author's prospective on medicine.
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"To understand the use of medicine to cure illness in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony" medicine must be regarded within a cultural context. Traditional Western medicine is based on the belief that illness is organically determined relying mainly on drugs ..."
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The Wedding Ceremony, 2002.
A comparison of the differences in culture between the early modern world and the 19th century with an emphasis on the wedding ceremony.
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This paper investigates the comparison between the "humanities", such as art, music, and tradition, in the early modern world and the 19th century periods. The example of a wedding is used in order to provide a focus to this discussion.
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Wiccan History and Ceremony, 2004.
This paper looks at the history of Wicca and the Wicca religion.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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In this article, the writer provides a brief history of Wicca and the Wicca religion. The writer includes a description of an eyewitness account of "The Rite of Wiccaning". The writer explains that this ceremony is somewhat similar to a Christening, as it welcomes a newborn child into the world.
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"My interview with Blackhawk taught me a great deal about Wicca and Wiccans. I interviewed Blackhawk before and after a ceremony I observed known as The Rite of Wiccaning, a ceremony that welcomes a new born child into the Pagan Community which its parents belong to. I learned some Wiccans claim the origins of Wicca to be thousands of years old but most modern American Wiccan lineages stem from an Englishman who helped promote Wicca. Blackhawk told me that after ... "
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Leslie Silko's "Ceremony", 2002.
This paper examines the struggle of the American Indian to fit into a society that does not accept strangers.
955 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses several of the themes presented in Leslie Silk's novel, "Ceremony." This paper looks at the main character, Tayo's journey to self-acceptance of his roots through a journey he takes through the world of the white man and its many vices. The paper uses different examples from the story that follow the journey through to its conclusion. These include Tayo's contact with the white doctor, his feelings of invisibility and his search for spirituality. The paper continues this theme through Tayo's use of alcohol and how it serves as a symbol for both his thirst of learning about his culture and his continued abuse by the white man. It is through this journey that Tayo eventually returns to the medicine man and eventually inner peace and acceptance.
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"Tayo insists that he is invisible in the onset of the novel. He cannot speak because an invisible man has no tongue. The white doctor forces Tayo to feel. The doctor's voice lures Tao into the doctor's sense of reality. Tayo feels that he is part of the fog and "like brittle red clay, slipping away with the wind, a little more each day" (Silko, 27). Consequently, Tayo felt hallow internally. He didn't fit in mentally and wished to ease his internal pain by physically escaping into nothingness. Tao's desire for non-existence is symbolic in the novel's theme of self-discovery."
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"Ceremony", 2005.
Examines the narrative style used in Leslie Silko's novel on Native American culture.
1,756 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, $ 56.95
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The story that unfolds in the book "Ceremony", written by Leslie Silko, is filled with various themes, symbolism and insights into Native American culture and spirituality. The paper shows that the style Silko uses augments each of these aspects of her writing and increases the depth and meaning of her work. The narrative style mirrors the cultural beliefs of the Laguna Pueblos as well as Native Americans in general.
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"The embedded text and Native American poetry acts as a bridge between the cultures. While the storyline refers to Indian spirits and their correlation to the culture and its beginnings, it is the poems in the embedded text that give their meaning and help the reader to apply this meaning to the narrative of Tayo's ceremonial rebirth into his culture. The poems give insight into the legends referred to in the text. By using embedded text rather than offering explanation within the narrative, the spirit themes are more meaningful. The reader can actually read the Native American poetry and interpret the meaning and placement of the meaning into the story."
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