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Short Story Comparative Essay In their stories, both Leslie Marmon Silko and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, utilize many symbols in order to further aid the audience in understanding the stories and the meanings behind them. Both stories contain a deceased man as the center of the story, therefore revealing the various actions that are portrayed towards them through the use of symbolism. In The Man to Send Rain Clouds, Silko focuses on the different rituals that the culture has, unlike in The Handsomest

The story I'm choosing is The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. The theme of the story is about the strength of Native American customs and traditions and bridging the gap between Native American customs and Christian customs. The author uses the setting and the mood to surface the theme throughout the story. The Man to Send Rain Clouds helps to set up a recurring theme that Silko will use in many of her other stories. The setting and the mood provides the perfect environment for the

Alex Goldy Dr. Christopher Bell ENGL 2160 4 November 2014 Hope In Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Lullaby,” Silko illustrates the life of Ayah, a Native American woman. In “Lullaby,” Ayah experiences both joy and hardship in living with her husband, Chato, and her children Jimmie, Danny, and Ella. Furthermore, Silko includes poetry as well as Ayah’s past recollections and present journey, which in turn can be misleading as to whether or not “Lullaby” is seen as tragic or hopeful. However, through Ayah’s

People express themselves in many different ways, drawing, dancing, writing and many more. Leslie Marmon Silko, born in March, 1948 is a Laguna Pueblo writer and a key figure of literature. She has written many recognized books and stories and is well known in the writing industry. She is a writer that utilizes structure elements to embrace her writing. A great book of hers is the “Yellow Women and a Beauty of the Spirit” published on December 19, 1993. This is a book based on true events of her

In the "yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" by Leslie Marmon Silko, Silko describes what is considered beauty and prominent in the outside modern day culture as untrue. Silko starts off the essay with her heritage and makes it clear that her culture is the only culture that except her. Silko realizes she was different from others; her skin color differed from her friends and family's. Silko explains how the Laguna Pueblo people have no gender roles and how sexuality is embraced. The structure

Throughout the first few chapters of the essay, Leslie Marmon Silko structures the reading in a manner that allows the audience to stay truly engaged and curious of her conflictions. She uses personal experience, cultural behavior and rich pueblo history to contribute to the reflection of her culture's internal values and pure integrity. She emphasizes the impact her grandmother Amooh, as well as other countless relatives and friends, have had on her willingness to accept her disparate appearance;

Annie Bosher Meredith Privott English 111 7 September 15 Leslie Marmon Silko's essay, "Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective," and Amy Tan's essay, "Mother Tongue," share similarities and differences. Both authors discuss the challenge of language, each from their own perspective. Silko discusses in her essay that a way of communication for the pueblo indians is story telling, She describes that while for most people stories are something for bedtime, the pueblo indians use it

Indigo, the main character of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes, is a young Native American girl living in the nineteenth century. Her story began when she and her sister, the last two people remaining of the Sand Lizard tribe, were ripped from their desert garden home and separated by American soldiers during a gathering for Native American tribes. Indigo was sent to an Indian school run by the government to be stripped of her identity and taught how to be “proper” and subservient, but

even after it was taken from them, and that the spirit is all that they need. Oftentimes, unless they are emphasized, it is difficult for readers to see the elements of a novel that are not directly stated such as the spirituality that Silko tries to express; thus, Silko’s choice to use spiritual evils allows for the reader to see the novel’s main theme of the Native-Americans’ beliefs in the supernatural. If Silko were to use a physical evil instead, the readers may not have been able to see this

to defend and protect their cultural sovereignty. Throughout the course of this essay I am going to explore the ways in which Euro-American hegemony and the fight to preserve culture relate to the Laguna-Pueblo history in the novel, Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko. The novel, Ceremony, takes place in the early 19th century in the southwest United States. We meet the main character Tayo who is half white and half Laguna-Pueblo. His mother had an affair with a white man and left Tayo to be