The role of the individual and their relationship with the community is an important thematic issue that is observed in the works of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams. ... It is not until she returns to her childhood home, sees the truth of her father and loses her beloved sister that she ultimately realizes that her family community has always been there for her in her fifty mothers. ... This dislocation ultimately leads to his death when he enlists in the army during World War Two and takes Tayo with him, who is left to suffer the guilt of lo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many well-written pieces of literature including The Poisonwood Bible. ... As she describes them, the days when there was still room for laughter in her husband's evangelical calling, before her pregnancies embarrassed him, before he returned from World War II a different man, a man who planned ''to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan.'' ... She sees that her father's ''blue eyes with their left-sided squint, weakened by the war, had a vacant look. ... Adah feels somewhat jealous, and irritated w...

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