In the ceremony, there is a narration of brief dissimilar stories, which include stories on war narrated by Harley, Emo among other novices.

The stories told in the novel ceremony about Pueblo culture are real stories that exist outside the novel context (Walther 3). In the novel ceremony, these approaches of storytelling occurred as a poem, which surrounded a novel ceremony narrative at both the beginning and end. Stories are rhythmic, entail repetition and sometimes presented in the custom of a song. The main aim of storytelling is to transfer information among dissimilar individuals and generations. In their culture, the title “official storyteller” belonged to the elders who made storytelling to become a communal event. In ancient times, all the Native American cultures on biology, history, morality, medicine among others transferred among different generations through storytelling. In the ceremony, storytelling does not major on the general process involved in storytelling instead, it focuses on how the Native American traditions used to tell stories. This novel Ceremony backs this concept because it has all forms of freedom in telling its stories (Walther 3). Therefore, a story provides the narrator or writer with the freedom to explore any type of genre around the globe. A story can either be real or fictitious, possess realistic situations or fantasy. The concept of storytelling is only possible for humans because the trial of teaching non-human creatures has not been successful.Īccording to the Ceremony, the word story refers to factors that contribute to the identification of a story. Storytelling is an aspect that happens to human beings because they are capable of using words to pass information amongst individuals and generations.

To Tayo, these ceremonies were a transitional stage since, in ancient times in Pueblo (Tayo’s community), the community members performed ceremonies after the returning of warriors from fighting because they avoided stains caused by fighting destruction (Walther 9).

In the novel’s plots, the author chooses different ceremonies as they either start or end. The entire novel talks about the celebration of unrelated brief ceremonies, and this describes why the novel itself is a ceremony. According to Tayo’s family members, they believe that the only solution to his problems is through practicing Native American Rituals that will help him to streamline life thus, understanding the originality of his emotions.įinally, Old Betonie applies different means to ensure that the Native American ceremonies give Tayo peace (Silko 2). In the novel Ceremony, different formalities happen and Tayo participates in each one, which acts as a manner of reincorporation with his Native American culture. Tayo is worried about how he will interact with his family in Mexico and his bi-cultureless problems since he was partial-Caucasian and partial-Native American.

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