• Paperback
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• Ceremony
• Leslie Marmon Silko
• English
• 22 May 2019
• 9780140086836

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review Ceremony Ceremony review ß 0 Dian past and its traditions to beliefs about witchcraft and evil and to the ancient stories of his people The search itself becomes a ritual a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions despair. Book Circle Reads 168Rating 2 of fiveThe Publisher Says Tayo a young Native American has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolutionTayo s uest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions to beliefs about witchcraft and evil and to the ancient stories of his people The search itself becomes a ritual a curative ceremny that defeats the most virulent of afflictions despairMy Review Pleasant phrase making in service of mundane plot It s by no means a bad book in fact it s a nice enough novel and I am not sorry I read itIf Leslie Marmon Silko was a Caucasian lady or worse yet a Caucasian man this would ve been a midlist novel and would today almost forty years later be completely forgotten Rightly so It s a perfectly nice first novel it s a story we all like returning hero is so badly damaged as to be paralyzed emotionally finds himself by reconnecting to his deep roots and confronting his past and it s been very very well edited and honed and massaged into shapeIt isn t a classic sorry to say in the face of so much praise for it over the years and it s not one bit better than A Farewell to Arms his best book or The Naked and the Dead or The Yellow Birds or Phoenix RisingIt s a perfectly decent novel Except well except I really don t buy the dialogue it s poetical speechifyin and not dialogue Pretty it is speech it ain tJosiah said that only humans had to endure anything because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves Animals did not resist But they persisted because they became part of the wind So they moved with the snow became part of the snowstorm which drifted up against the trees and fences And when they died frozen solid against a fence with the snow drifted around their heads Ah Tayo Josiah said the wind convinced them they were the ice Lovely But that little tag is part of the writing not a character like Uncle Josiah speaking He s a stock character with speeches like this The Wise Old InjunWell anyway I didn t like it that much I suppose most of my impatience is with the way the novel is venerated Sheesh This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 30 Unported License

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review Ceremony Ceremony review ß 0 Feeling of estrangement and alienation While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution Tayo's uest leads him back to the In. when i think about this book i picture heart cells putting their feelers out for each other mending back together into one whole muscle capable of expansion and love this book moved me a friend of mine recommended this when i was trying to read another book written by a white shaman and having a really hard time with it there is no comparison this is a book about a man whose body spirit gut and mind are heaving with loss and the slow careful path to being alive again nothing about this book is easy but there is a wholeness in it that is real it is the way the world is a full circle a deep pattern i found myself so absorbed in the flow that i often found myself totally lost in terms of what had happened a few pages back and would have to skip back and go okay what s going on again it was a good exercise for my heart and mind to work together like that leslie marmom silko is a brilliant writer tying together so many threads the things that have been lost and stolen and buried and the ways that we swallow our own oppression so that we don t have to feel it and the relief at knowing that we re not crazy that the way it feels inside is a real thing and there is a healing available to us even with all the pain i could relate to the main character s experience of dissolving into white smoke in the hospital and the feeling that it would be better to just return to that nothingness than to emerge into sunlight but he didn t he stayed he completed the pattern and he did emerge i feel a deep empathy for the characters and the real people who have to look at the land every day and know that it has been stolen i feel grateful for this book

review Ceremony Ceremony review ß 0 Tayo a young Native American has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his. I will tell you something about storieshe saidThey aren t just entertainmentDon t be fooledThey are all we have you seeall we have to fight offillness and deathYou don t have anything if you don t have the storiesLeslie Marmon Silko s Ceremony opens with a defense of storytelling Storytelling is a way of making the world a way of protecting self and culture Ceremony itself takes part in this process telling the story of Tayo a young Native American come home from WWII and severely traumatized by the experience He is sick depressed suffering from PTSD it seems and unable to re integrate into his society Until he visits Betonie that is a medicine man who tells him about the witchery that is at play in the world witchery that Tayo can help put an end to as he completes a ceremony that will also help him heal Silko s novel is a beautiful reflection on the ways in which we are all interconnected all humans and all of nature but do not see this connection Because we do not see this connection we continue to destroy ourselves our fellow humans and the world in which we must live Tayo finally makes this connection through seeing the connections between Los Alamos and the creation of the atomic bomb and his own experiences From the jungles of his dreaming he recognized why the Japanese voices had merged with Laguna voices with Josiah s voice and Rocky s voice the lines of cultures and worlds were drawn in flat dark lines on fine light sand converging in the middle of witchery s final ceremonial sand painting From that time on human beings were one clan again united by the fate the destroyers planned for all of them for all living things united by a circle of death that devoured people in cities twelve thousand miles away victims who had never known these mesas who had never seen the delicate colors of the rocks which boiled up their slaughter 246 Upon this realization he is relieved to find that he had never been crazy He had only seen and heard the world as it always was no boundaries only transitions through all distances and time 246 The book is a hopeful one ending with healing and sunrise with the witchery dead for now 261 but in it Silko acknowledges that it has never been easy 254 that It isn t very easy to fix up things again 256 And it is easy to damage things It took only one person to tear away the delicate strands of the web spilling the rays of sun into the sand and the fragile world would be injured 38 What happens to one happens to all This works both ways One person s misdeeds or losses affect everyone else whether on a familial and community level or on a worldwide level and so it isn t easy to maintain balance and harmony and we all live constantly in danger of being harmed by someone else however we each also have the power and the responsibility to begin the process of healing to engage in ceremonies and storytelling and action to change the end of the narrative as Tayo does