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    Pablita Velarde

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    Pablita Velarde‚ was a Native American Artist who attended the Santa Fe Indian School‚ specifically Dorothy Dunn’s Studio School. The purpose of the school was to teach students to create a distinctive and marketable "Indian" style. While traditional Pueblo art focused on pottery‚ pottery painting‚ and pueblo wall painting‚ the Dunn style‚ also known as "flat painting" "combined the outline drawing and flat colors of folk art‚ the decorative qualities of Art Deco‚ and "Indian" subject matter."

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    What are the different ways stories are told in Ceremony? Find and explain an example of two of the following four: 1. Stories told in memory. 2. Stories inscribed in the landscape. 3. Stories told in mythological time. 4. Stories understood differently by different people. Please respond in a word document by Wednesday. In Ceremony‚ stories are told by memory. His memories are both painful and healing in a way. Painful in the sense that remember Josiah and Rocky makes Tayo feel sad‚ guilty‚ angry

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    Ceremony by Leslie Silko

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    Ceremony by Leslie Silko 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 towards society. The novel discusses many topics pertaining to Native Americans‚ through the eyes of Tayo and a few female characters. The novel is one that you must decide for yourself

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    belief was maintained. Whatever the event or the subject‚ the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as pan of an ancient‚ continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories." p. 233 In this quote Leslie Silko describes the value of storytelling in Pueblo people everyday life‚ she equals storytelling to collective memory of the people. I find it very interesting because just the other day I heard Dr. Richard Leo Enos from TCU proclaim that the Iliad

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    No two people read a piece of text the exact same way. This difference in perspective and opinion is what gives way to the variety of modern literature. This idea of perspective is woven through the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Reading through the eyes of different characters in Ceremony can change how the text is interpreted. Thomas C. Foster also argues this point in his book‚ How to Read Literature like a Professor‚ that one must read a piece of literature not only with their eyes‚ but

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    still being manipulated by those who knew how to stir the ingredients together: white thievery and injustice boiling up the anger and hatred that would finally destroy the world: the starving against the fat‚ the colored against the white” (191). Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony‚ is an example of Postcolonial literature. The novel focuses on the de-colonization of the Native American culture by white people and the effects it has on the Natives. Rocky is a strong‚ educated Native boy who prefers the

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    the war as they see friends‚ loved ones‚ anyone‚ fall to human hands. This brutal pain transcends the war itself‚ reaching for victims long after the war has ended. It evolves into a sickness‚ one that is not so easily cured by doctors. Tayo‚ in Leslie Marmon Silko’s‚ Ceremony‚ is haunted by this mind-ravaging mental disease after fighting and struggling for too long in the Japanese jungles. He returns to America‚ no longer a war hero‚ but as the scarred Native who is back to falling prey under the

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    The next example is one of a protagonist that in some way resembles Wilhelmina‚ he as well‚ tries and wants to pull away his cultures and traditions in order to fit in at school. Tayo‚ in the book Ceremony by Leslie M. Silko is a young man who finds himself in between the coalition of two cultures‚ his two cultures. Tayo is initiated into the Native American culture and traditions. The distinction here is between the White and the Native American ethnic-race groups. To sum up‚ one of the takeaways

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    itself with the mention of Catholic modernism versus Native American traditions and well descriptive spiritual backgrounds. Leslie Silko uses her Laguna Pueblo heritage to give meaning towards different conflicts among Native Americans converting to Christians. Many cultures interacting and compromising with one another portrays their customs and traditions in different ways. Leslie is careful in setting the stage for where; not only is the setting very important but it serves the interactions between

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    Lullaby

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    Leslie Silko la "Canción de cuna" es una conmovedora historia escrita en primera persona desde el punto de vista del personaje principal‚ Ayah. Ayah is a Navajo woman who lives with her husband‚ Chato. Ayah navajo es una mujer que vive con su esposo‚ el Chato. In the story‚ Ayah does not understand English‚ and fears the white men who yell and point at documents for her to sign. En la historia‚ Ayah no entiende Inglés‚ y los temores de los hombres blancos que gritar y el punto en sus documentos para

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