![]() Tayo gets out of bed and attends to a few light chores scarred by his wartime experience, he is now staying at an outpost, remote from his family and from the rest of his community. ![]() ![]() While Tayo found himself unable to execute harsh orders (such as shooting Japanese prisoners), Rocky saw the shedding of blood as his duty as an American soldier. He was deployed alongside his cousin Rocky, but he and Rocky had different attitudes toward their military duties. Tayo, however, also harbors anguished memories of his experiences fighting the Japanese in World War II. He remembers some figures from his life in the United States, such as his deceased Uncle Josiah and two of his living relatives, Auntie and Old Grandma. The final, short verses call attention to the idea a ceremony can be a "cure" (3) and invoke the sunrise.Īs the main prose narrative of Ceremony opens, Tayo, a young man who is living on the Laguna Pueblo reservation, has just passed an uneasy night. The poems that follow explain that storytelling is not mere entertainment, and in fact possesses therapeutic powers storytelling, indeed, is related to a body of rituals and ceremonies that continue to evolve and expand. In the first of these, the Thought Woman and her sisters create the universe the story that follows is apparently "the story she is thinking" (1). Ceremony begins with a group of short, untitled poems that invoke the act of storytelling. ![]()
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