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    Lullaby by William Robinson Leigh represents a Native American mother leaning over her child. Her arms bracket the cradleboard‚ holding it still and secure. She looks down into the cradle‚ face soft and pleased. The fire in front of her casts a warm illumination‚ emphasizing her loving gaze. Her red wrapped braids bracket her face‚ standing out from the brown and white of her dress. The shoulders of her dress have four lines of white beading made form smaller lines of beading. The white repeats in

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    LULLABY   by Leslie Marmon Silko      The  sun  had  gone  down  but  the  snow  in  the  wind  gave  off its own  light.  It came in thick tufts  like  new wool—washed before the weaver spins it. Ayah reached out for it like her own babies  had‚  and  she  smiled  when she  remembered  how  she  had laughed  at  them.  She  was  an  old  woman now‚ and her life had become memories. She sat down with her back against the wide  cottonwood  tree‚  feeling  the rough bark on her back bones; she faced east and listened to the 

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    Broken Foundations! The novel Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill is narrated by Baby -- the 12 year old protagonist and daughter of a single father and heroin addict‚ Jules. Baby never knew her mother and is unaware that she has any other family. They live in various dilapidated hotels in Montreal’s red light district. As Karl Marx famously said “[People] make their own history‚ but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances‚ but under

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    At first glance at the poem “Another Lullaby for Insomniacs” by A.E. Stallings‚ it can seem like the subject is insomnia just for the title but it has more than depth than that. In order to understand what the theme of the poem is‚ readers must analyze is line by line. After doing so‚ you should come to realize that the theme is that theirs this guy who’s broken hearted over his lover who moved because he didn’t put a ring on her finger and now he can’t sleep over it. Numerous readers don’t look

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    In The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ there are millions of symbols and meanings regardless of how short the story may be. ‘‘The big cotton wood tree stood apart from a small grove of winter-bare cottonwoods which grew in the wide‚ sandy arroyo. Leon waited under the tree while Ken drove the truck through the deep sand to the edge of the arroyo. But high and northwest the Blue Mountains were still in snow. It was getting colder‚ and the wind pushed gray dust down the narrow pueblo

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    “I had never meant Kent‚ but Jules got me so worked up about him” (4) “Everyone was living a sort of fictional existence” (6) “The smoke in the dark looked like the dove that whispered the future to saints in paintings” (6) “There is always the sound of children roller skating at the end of every record” (6) “I wished that I could get lost‚ just to know what it felt like” (6) “The sky was the color of television static” (7) “We gave each other seven kisses for good luck” (7) “He started gesticulating

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    Othering is present in many books‚ although they are hidden away from plain sight‚ only being mentioned in a subtle way. In the case of “Ceremony”‚ written by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ othering is seen through the way certain peoples are isolated or rejected from society‚ especially in certain periods of time. It is also seen through the short stories Tayo tells‚ recalling events when Native Americans faced discrimination against their oppressors‚ the whites. In the case of “Go Tell it on the Mountain”

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    that he has won and asks him to recall the story and take back what he had said‚ but he says that it is too late to call it back. The story that he told was of the creation of the white people‚ and it is irreversible. Leslie Marmon Silko tries to convey the belief of the Laguna Indians that the white man is going to destroy the world. This is evident in the belief that the "world was already complete even without white people" (133) They feel that the world would have

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    the body over with his boot and said‚ ‘ look ‚ Tayo‚ look at the face‚’ and that was when Tayo started screaming because it wasn’t a Jap‚ it was Josiah‚ eyes shrinking back into the skull and all their shrinking black light glazed over by death” (Silko 7). True men do not suffer from the ghosts of war. Manliness condones this behavior in soldiers after World War II. In Silko’s Ceremony¸ she analyzes standard of manliness set for the soldiers suffering from PTSD compared to the standards set at the

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    Dr. Michelle Brown English 325 101 Ceremony Assignment 28 January 2013 Throughout Silko’s novel‚ Ceremony‚ a sense of conflict between light and darkness is clearly evident. This struggle is personified mainly through Tayo’s battle within his psyche. Tayo’s struggle with battle fatigue leads him on a quest for purification. With the help of Betonie‚ an insightful but eccentric medicine man‚ Tayo discovers the struggles apparent in the world which mirror his own mental constitution. Betonie

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