Lesli Marmon Silko Chapter Summary

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Lesli Marmon Silko´Ceremony is explaining Tayo´s struggle with protagonists who claim their identity between two different worlds, the Indians and white ancestries. According to Evasdaughter, “Silko is the right person to have written this book. She herself is a mixed-blood, and her experience has evidently given her access not only to a variety of problems, but also to a variety of styles of clowning and joking“ (2). Tayo is stuck between these two different worlds, which are not able to go with Native American culture. Tayo has to face to changes when he was trying to extricate himself from two identities and to find his own world. During making his own identity he finds out impact which has the white society on the Native American communities and uses them like model for his own community. Silko establishes a new kind of world in which white culture is against the Native American culture. Then she use Tayo to show his inability to exist in either and demonstrates that Native Americans have to accept white …show more content…

Tayo gives a vision of a modification society unable to oppose power or impact of the world out of boarder. Tayo watches in the Native American culture a craving to be part of white community while also refusing their connection to the power society. In these antagonistic positions, suspense appears in the story which contests the steadiness between two communities and recommend that all Natives Americans should start to admit the being of white culture and its more powerful influence on their habits and identity. Silko shows in Ceremon that double world is more complicated than it seems to be and half blood people like Tayo, have to absorb their culture into the second society in order to protect

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