Leslie Marmon Silko writes of a torn character, Tayo, in her book Ceremony. ... That is why Ku"oosh's ceremony did little to ease Tayo's pain. ... Silko utilizes two vehicles to express the duality within Tayo. ... When Humming Bird completes a portion of the ceremony Tayo completes a portion. This book is indeed a ceremony in itself; Silko may have written it to find her own personal identity. ...
The costs of total war, mobilization, and the end to modernity ultimately led to drastic shifts in the perceptions of identity across the globe, which led to decolonization and the birth to new nations, and whether or not the assimilation and abandonment of old traditional ways of life, as is the case presented by Leslie Marmon Silko in the novel Ceremony. In the novel Ceremony, Silko displayed how the identities of Native Americans who participated in World War II, fighting for the U.S., shifted from the time they were enlisted to their homecoming and how the assimilation and integration o...
