Ceremony

ceremony

outsider looking in verses the insider looking out.



Is it possible to be a part of something and have no connection to it? In the book Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, discusses how one can be a part of something but at the same time be viewed as an outsider. Tayo the main character of the book has to deal with this conflict. He was part “white?and part Native American. He was raised into the Native American Customs, however to the Native Americans as well as the “whites?he was considered and outsider. They treated him as if he didn’t belong to either group. He was trying to fit in with both races without disrespecting the other. He struggled to try to stay neutral and find balance between both worlds.

Tayo grew up with a lot of confusion in his life. He had to deal with living his life on the hyphen. He was half “white?and half Native American. Due to the fact that these two groups didn’t really get along it was hard for Tayo to truly feel...