Ceremony By Leslie Silko
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The novel Ceremony, written by Leslie Silko deals with the actions of a Native
American youth after fighting, and being held captive during World War II. The
young mans name is Tayo and upon returning to the U.S., and eventually
reservation life he has many feelings of estrangement and apathy towar ....
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.... must decide why and how the women's perspective is of importance.
I believe the reason the women's view is to put a different perspective upon
everything that goes on in the book, as compared with the perspective of Tayo.
There are two women in the book who put their perspective into the story, one of
them is the elderly mistress of Josiah and the other one is Helen Jean who went
on one of the many joyrides that Harley and the others went on. These women are
actually just a way for the autho ....
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Word count: 505
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
