Silko leslie marmon6/8/2023 Because we do not see this connection, we continue to destroy ourselves, our fellow humans, and the world in which we must live. Silko's novel is a beautiful reflection on the ways in which we are all interconnected-all humans and all of nature-but do not see this connection. Until he visits Betonie, that is, a medicine man who tells him about the witchery that is at play in the world, witchery that Tayo can help put an end to as he completes a ceremony that will also help him heal. He is sick, depressed, suffering from PTSD, it seems, and unable to re-integrate into his society. Ceremony itself takes part in this process, telling the story of Tayo, a young Native American come home from WWII and severely traumatized by the experience. Storytelling is a way of making the world, a way of protecting self and culture. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony opens with a defense of storytelling.
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