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His time with the woman, Ts' the, completes his transformation. They say he is sick and want him to return (p. 228), but really he has found himself. Talking to Ts' the, Tayo says, "The destroyers: they work to see how much can be lost, how much can be forgotten" (p. 229). He recognizes how lost he was in the hospital: "the thick white skin that had enclosed him, silencing the sensations of living, the love as well as the grief; and he had been left with only the hum of the tissues that enclosed him" (p 229). Ts' the agrees, saying the scars thicken and that only destruction arouses anymore. Then later, crying around a fire, she says, "They want to change it. They want it to end here, the way...
The violence of the struggle excites them, and the killing soothes them" (p. 231-32). Her words are a warning. They'll hunt you down, she means, and lock you again in the hospital, "because this is the only ending they understand." They don't understand his identity and can't decide who he is (p. 235). When she sees him off later, she tells him, "Remember everything" (p. 235).
It is in this final remembrance that loss and fear are overcome. Tayo refuses the easy solution of drinking and blaming the whites. He achieves wholeness and unity in a journey out of painful fragmentation caused by loss (his own and his people's).…
Both women suffer hard and endure their pain gracefully. Wang Ya-Ming cries but does not feel sorry for herself. Her tears are like a symbolic means of self-purification. She stood "with her back to the classroom," and did not make a habit of crying (3). Her inner strength is evident in her self-composure. Wang Ya-Ming is stalwart and self-contained. She studies hard and for the most part ignores and quietly
Leslie Silko's Ceremony is a highly informative and insightful work that offers a closer glimpse into the lives of Pueblo people and their culture. The author focuses on the various ceremonies and traditions that are considered essential for spiritual and physical healing in such traditional societies. The story revolves around the disease that Tayo has contracted during wartime and that appears to consume him completely. Through Tayo and two other
Both Tayo and Crowe begin their journeys wandering between two worlds. Both are aware of their wandering and are constantly searching for an identity that will allow them to find the world and identity in which they are most suitable for inclusion. Similarly, both Crowe and Tayo experience a traumatic event that leaves them haunted not only by their pasts, but also guilty about their own actions in the
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