Kingsolver uses a structure that tells the narrative from three perspectives: Codi, in first person, tells her story of isolation from all but her sister; while the distance of Homer's third person narrative exemplifies his distance from his children, and his family community; and although Hallie is never met directly in the narrative her first person letters continue to develop a picture through images of the only member of the family who is connected to life, ironically while being the absent daughter and sister who is working out of the country in Nicaragua. ... In Ceremony we are c...

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