What Is Silko's Ceremony

While reading the beginning portion of Silko's Ceremony, it is rather evident that storytelling is going to be a main focus of the novel. The way that this book is set up is much different than anything that I have read before. It contains poetry sections in between longer prose sections. When these poetry sections are inserted, I sense a change of story or place in time. There seems to be a lot of flashbacks by Tayo who from reading isn't very easy to figure out. There is a lot of ambiguity to this novel, you kind of have to figure things out on your own since there is no distinct story line yet, only different stories thrown in a random order. The story that is told about Tayo in the Pacific is sort of interlaced with a story of his home.