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Ceremony
Title: Ceremony
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 543 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ceremony
In Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, the gender roles of three women are significant to the development of Tayo as being half-white and half-Indian. These three women are Tayo's birth mother, Auntie, and Old Grandma. His mother left him when he was four years old and that began his sense of emptiness and abandonment. She could not bear to raise a child that brought the reservation shame by her mistake. Auntie raised Tayo and was the …showed first 75 words of 543 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 543 total…her. "Tears filled his eyes and the ache in his throat ran deep into his chest (218)." Tayo no longer feels like a walking shadow, but finally a real person with feelings and emotions. It is through Montano that he discovers himself and ultimately is able to deal with being a half-breed in a changing world. When she finally leaves him, he is able to go on living and remembering all that she taught him.
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