Obstacles In Ceremony By Leslie Marmon Silko

The two passages, Breaking Tradition by Kathleen Ernest and A Family Affair by Gina DeAngelis and Lisa Ballinger, portray the changing role of women during the Civil War and World War II. Each passage shows how war transformed women’s roles in society in the 1800’s. In the 1800’s, women’s opinions and decisions were restricted during the Civil War and World War II, due to laws and traditions.

Marriage is important in human society. Marriage is “the customs, rules, and obligations that establish a special relationship between a sexually cohabitating adult male and female, between them and any children they produce, and between the kin of the bride and groom” (Arenson, and Miller-Thayer 520). Most of the cultures are used to seeing only female and male getting married but looking deeper into the society; we can see there are more to it. There are many different types of marriages. In an ethnography called, Guest of the Sheik, by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, she talks about her experiences in a small rural village of El Nahra in southern Iraq. Ethnography is “comprised of the writings of the anthropologist, detailing the life ways of a particular culture, investigated by means of direct fieldwork” (1). As she gets accepted by the women of the villages, she gets a more inclusive view of the culture.

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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is about the hardships faced by Tayo, a returned Native American World War Ⅱ Veteran. Tayo struggles throughout the novel to ascertain a resolution to the internal pandemonium he experiences in the form of battle fatigue. The story exhibits the stages of the Monomyth: a protagonist's quest in relation to culture and self growth. Tayo experiences all three stages of a monomyth; the departure, the initiation, and the return that are all constitutive fragments that make up one whole.

In the Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih, the ability of diverse groups of Muslims to come together and celebrate Zein’s wedding reveals the power and strength of community in Islamic culture. Despite divisions amongst the community throughout the book, Zein is able to interact with all factions of the village, regardless of their standpoint. Zein is portrayed in the book as a group of one. Zein is isolated as a group of one because of his constant openly berating if the imam. Although he can sometimes appear as an outcast because of this, every group in the village still appears open and understanding of him thanks to his open personality and likeability. The turning point in the story, which leads to a closer community, is when Zein chokes Seif-a-Din for hitting him over the head with an axe. Seif-a-Din decides to put his former life behind him and become more devout to his religion and closer to Islam. Ultimately, after this event, the whole village becomes closer and more united, with a greater sense of cohesion amongst the village. Zein’s wedding represents the coming together of the community despite the differences of religious belief and modernist and traditionalist viewpoints. The Wedding of Zein reveals the ability of Islam to bring people together, even despite their minor differences. At the center of this is Zein, an example of how one person and their desire to good for others has the ability to touch so many diverse people and forge a bond that ties them all

As life continuously throws obstacles and challenges in life, humans tend to get through it with family members. In fact, most human/ people rely on family members to help them get through obstacles. Sending love to a family member for a hard situation leads to less stress as studies show. Obstacles are a things that happen on a daily basis and love may be the only cure. “Elena” is portraying a huge obstacle taking place, but no help is seeked, Pat Mora knows that this a struggle for others that they face everyday. Challenges vary on size and can have a great or small impact on a person but at the end, the person can overcome the obstacle. In “Elena”, Mora demonstrates love will overcome every obstacle when family is present.

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In the book titled Ceremony, Tayo faced several cultural difficulties that led him to realize his cultural identity and beliefs. In the end, these elements assisted him in completing his new ceremony that healed his post-traumatic stress disorder.

In Silko’s Ceremony, the main character Tayo suffers from what doctors in the World War II era called “battle fatigue” (in today’s terms, PTSD). Tayo was served in the Pacific Islands and had to witness his cousin Rocky perish during the Bataan Death March in 1942. When Tayo comes home, he is first put into a veteran’s hospital. After he is released from the hospital, he still struggles with his illness. Even after his aunt contacts a medicine man named Ku'oosh for treatment, and after Tayo was forced into a mental hospital after a breakdown, he still suffers immensely. Only after Tayo’s uncle Robert takes him to see a medicine man Betonie is he able to recover. Betonie is able to help Tayo when the others have failed because Betonie is much more relatable to Tayo and he tells meaningful stories that allow Tayo to have a new perspective on life.

Deo was able to escape the killing fields of his native homeland to the privileged halls of ivy-league ranked education. But it goes without saying that rivaled against the mundane—and fortuitously so— lives must of us have experienced, Deo underwent unimaginable horrors that most people couldn’t come back from. Thus, the resulting traumatization Deo demonstrates in the “New York” chapters of the book; the physiological aftermath. An event can be considered traumagenic when: It threatens a person’s life, produces feelings of terror, overwhelms ability to cope, or challenges sense of meaning. The Rwandan Genocide proved to be all of the above for Deo, in consequence causing him and the collective Tutsi population, trauma. Deo developed a sense of hyper vigilance; “To answer felt dangerous. She wasn’t just a stranger, she was a journalist… Would bas people read it and come to find him in New York?” (9). He had stopped eating, to the extent that a Doctor instructed Sharon McKenna to “fatten him up”(53). A wave of severe anxiety and depression would be followed by a wave of workaholisms. His depression came in periods, missing weeks on end of class and giving up on touring dignitaries alternating (107) with a deepened responsibility and reinvigorated work ethic, “His grades suffered more or less in cadence with his nightmares and with troubling news from Burundi. Then he would recover and do well for stretches, more than well enough in the end to make it through Columbia” (109). Thus comprising much of the Trauma Reenactments of acting

Throughout the events that transpire in the novel “Ceremony” by Leslie Marmon Silko. We are granted a glimpse into the life of a native American from the Laguna tribe named Tayo. We witness Tayo’s recovery from Battle Fatigue; now known as PTSD, which he contracted while fighting in World War 2. throughout the novel, we witness Tayo’s interactions with the people around him, as he tries to cope with his demons. Through these interactions we also get a feel about how Tayo fits in with his community. Tayo may be a damaged man, however there are people, who he becomes close to, that help him work through his problems enabling him to be restored to his former self.

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PTSD, an acronym for post-traumatic stress disorder, impacts many people who “experience a shocking, scary, or dangerous event” (National Institute of Mental Health,). The body releases hormones such as adrenaline to defend against danger; this is the “fight or flight” system. When people continue to encounter stress and fright after an incident, they may be diagnosed with PTSD. Therapies and medications prove to help overcome this disorder. Most people who are suffering, like Tayo in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, are Veterans. Tayo’s Native American background combats illnesses and disorders in a less conventional way with medicine men and different rituals. This process has many drawbacks than current solutions, Tayo struggles. Tayo’s childhood neglect, guilt, loneliness, and cultural standards all contribute to his complicated transition into normal life on top of his PTSD.

Michael Connelly, a published author once said that, “You can’t patch a wounded soul with a band-aid”. By saying that, Connelly is explaining that with mental illnesses you can’t just fix the symptoms, you have to fix the problem it will only get worse. A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger tells about a man named Seymour who suffers from PTSD who comes home from war and goes on a honeymoon with his wife to Florida, where he ultimately kills himself, reasons for this include, that he wants to relieve himself of the pain, he needs help that he is not getting, and he is isolated from his wife and her world.