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Leslie Marmon Silko's "Yellow Woman", 2006.
A review of the folktale "Yellow Women" written by Native-American Leslie Marmon Silko.
1,320 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at the belief of many that folktales are a dead media and lessons taught through folktales have no relevance in our current society. This paper also investigates Leslie Marmon Silko's argument in "Yellow Woman," that it's just the opposite, that folktales can still be very much a part of our present and future.
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"Within Leslies Silkos' work the narrator seems confused about her role in the story. The narrator is split minded that she is possible the yellow woman from her grandfathers story and question the stories legitimacy. One way she finds herself connected to the past living story, yet realizes she is in the present and old folktales like yellow woman do not occur anymore.
Another point Silko brings out is the Yellow Woman is unnamed as is the current narrator, leaving the reader with an open opinion. (Explain more here).
Throughout "Yellow Woman," the narrator plays the role of the yellow woman despite her disbeliefs. So why does the narrator lead herself to robbery and intercourse? The narrator is pressured many ways into becoming the yellow woman one including her grandfather."
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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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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", 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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Leslie Marmon Silko's Novel "Ceremony", 2000.
A look at how the central character of the novel is healed by returning to his Indian roots.
3,420 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 96.95
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This essay is an in-depth look at Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's novel "Ceremony", analysing how the central character Tayo heals his psychological disorder by returning to his Indian roots and seeking the help of a medicine man.
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""Ceremony" opens with a dream that the main character and World War II veteran, Tayo, is having concerning a plethora of thoughts and emotions concerning different cultures he has been exposed to throughout his life. The dream involves voices from many different races, the races that Tayo has positively or negatively dealt with in his life. The voices include Spanish (a man singing a familiar love song), Japanese (angry voices of soldiers), and Laguna (the voice of his Uncle Josiah bringing him fever medicine). The mixture of these races in Tayo?s mind made him mad even in his sleep. The dream represents a lifetime struggle Tayo has had with the negativity of differentiating cultures. He started life as a mixed blood child, never as well accepted as his brother Rocky and never happy with his placement. His negative experience in the war increased reasoning for Tayo to despise the whites that had taken culture from his ancestors. He was able to get along with fellow soldiers during the war, it was afterward that he realized the anti-Indian attitude expressed in his habitat. In his only exhibit of disgust towards whites after the war Tayo states that ?The war was over, the uniform was gone. All of a sudden that man at the store waits on you last, makes you wait until all the white people bought what they wanted. And the white lady at the bus depot, she?s real careful not to touch your hand when she counts out your change. You watch it slide across the counter and you know? You know!? (Silko 42). Not only does Tayo have to deal with his knowledge of the reality of his situation as an Indian, he has no one on the reservation to completely relate to, as he has the additional problem of being mixed blood. His conflict with this is seen when his fellow veteran and peer, Emo, angrily labels him as a ?half-breed.?"
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Leslie Mormon Silko, 2004.
This paper analyzes "Ceremony," "Yellow Woman" and "A Beauty of Spirit" and illustrates the importance of nature to the culture of the Laguna people and their survival.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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An analysis of "Ceremony," "Yellow Woman" and "A Beauty of Spirit" that illustrates the importance of nature to the culture of the Laguna people and their survival.
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"Leslie Mormon Silko: Introduction. The Laguna Pueblo are a Native American people that according to Silko in "Yellow Woman" and a "Beauty of Spirit" embrace the whole of creation and the whole of history and time. In this essay and in her novel "Ceremony" we see that the Laguna are not only connected to nature but are part of it. The land and its creatures are their creation, their history and their time."
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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", 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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"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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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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"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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"Almanac of the Dead", 2002.
A review of the novel "Almanac of the Dead" by Leslie Marmon Silko in the light of postmodernism and globalism.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the novel, "Almanac of the Dead", by Leslie Marmon Silko in terms of postmodernism and globalism, and analyzes the literary treatment in the novel of history, displacement, authenticity, and tradition.
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The Changing Tradition, 2003.
An insight into the oral tradition of the Native Americans through a review of Leslie Marmon Silko's book "Ceremony".
1,582 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains how traditions must change over time to remain relevant and shows how Leslie Marmon Silko illustrates the importance of oral tradition and language with Tayo?s story in her novel, "Ceremony". It examines how Native Americans believe that when people speak, they exchange spirits and the addition of human breath transforms sounds into words and gives them life. The living word then becomes a part of each individual who hears it which is why oral tradition is so important to them. It compares Auntie and Josiah and how they view tradition and people outside their race and how Silko uses Auntie to represent people who blindly follow the traditions of the past while not believing in the spirit behind them.
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"Oral tradition includes many different forms including ?letters, anecdotes, gossip, jokes, poems, legends, family stories, crafted stories?that must be included for a person to become self-knowing, to create community and even to comprehend the evil, the witchery, which disrupts community? (Brown). Silko uses many of these forms in Ceremony. The novel, as a whole, is an example of a crafted story. The different components of the novel are also important parts of the oral tradition. Grandma ?liked to sit by her stove and gossip about the people who were talking about their family? (Silko 89). As she gossiped, she carried on that tradition. The story of Tayo is also a good example of Silko using the oral tradition, because it is an example of a family story."
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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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Western vs Pueblo medicine, 2004.
This paper looks at the novel "Ceremonies" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper looks at the novel "Ceremonies," by Leslie Marmon Silko, and at the culture of the Pueblo Indians. The paper reviews the story, explaining that it is about a young half Caucasian/half Indian man returning after World War II suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and not being able to find answers in either Western or traditional Pueblo medicine.
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"Silko's "Ceremony" is the story of a Tayo a half Caucasian, half Native American from the Laguna Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico and his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder on his return from World War II. He has survived being held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese and is suffering the physical and mental effects of this captivity and this is compounded by the added pressures of bi-culturalism tearing him between the Native American world and the white world. Throughout the novel, Silko introduces the..."
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