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Summary Of "Ceremony"

Ceremony is the story about Tayo, A Native American World War II
Veteran, and his struggle to find himself. He struggles to adapt to a world
where his people have to fight between the what "whites" say is the true
path, and what his culture says the right path. Ceremony displays Tayo's
struggle by comparing his struggle to find his own path, to the other
Native American's and their fight to their own path.

The book starts as Tayo is in bed going over the war in his mind…
He remembers how the Japanese looked like him, same skin color and how
Rocky told him, "It's is what we're here to do" and how he doesn't
understand why he's there killing people that look like him, and possibly
feel the ...

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web, it went out in all directions. His mind snapped at that exact
moment and went into "shell-shock".

Tayo started very early trying to find his path, but yet his path
paralleled Rocky's until the time when Rocky died. Tayo's path paralleled
but was always a step behind, because he was trying to retain his heritage
and still keep with the new ways. Tayo walked a thin line trying to keep
his path and Rocky's close together because he loved Rocky, and yet could
not understand Rocky wanting so badly to leave the old ways. Rocky believed
in the white man's science, when all Tayo wanted to believe in was Native
American science, for example the cattle raising… Josiah was bringing
cattle home that he'd bought and was reading books on it, and saw the
"white man's" definition of "perfect cattle" and laughed, and the rest of
the family read it, and they all laughed except for Rocky who said, "Those
books are written by scientists. They know everything there is to know
about beef ...

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Added: 10/9/2007 10:33:05 PM
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