I am starting to enjoy
Ceremony a little more. I know all of the pieces will fit together and make sense in the end but I can't help being curious. I get frustrated when I don't know what's going on. All of the different times makes it really difficult to keep straight. From what I have understood thus far there are a couple times that Tayo keeps going back to. The day he is living through currently opens with him having nightmares and taking his burrow up to a bar with his war buddy, Harley. He had to stop and take a nap on the way. Harley jokes that it's heat stroke but it's really PTS. They do get to a bar but I get confused here. Tayo goes back to a time where he tries to kill Emo for insulting him and being a mean drunk. I can't tell if Emo is at the bar at this time. Silko has shown the readers two sides of Tayo's Auntie. In the first introduction she is caring for Tayo, I assume right after the war, and in the other she is separating herself from him to keep up an image. She is ashamed of all of her family except her son Rocky. Josiah is sleeping with a Mexican woman, Tayo's mother slept and ran off with white men, and Old Grandma is blind and does nothing to defend her family.
There are so many stories and I can't be sure of the order of all of them. It makes more sense the more I read but I have so many questions. How did Tayo's mother die? When does Josiah die? Is Tayo responsible for the cattle dying? Does Auntie still distance herself from Tayo after the war and only caring for him to keep up an image or does she really change her mind about him? Every few pages leads to a new bit of information the clears up one question but gives way to twenty more. I know I'll get it but it's a hard book to read. I usually don't fall behind on the reading but this week I am. Not a lot but probably twenty pages. Going back and picking apart different sections is helping. I'm finding details that I missed the first time is it clears a few of my questions. My annotations are mostly questions and quotes I like. The theme of PTS is definitely there but the other ones are harder to find. I like the book and I know I'll get it. I just have to catch up and wait for the ending to wrap everything up.
I am starting to enjoy Ceremony a little more. I know all of the pieces will fit together and make sense in the end but I can't help being curious. I get frustrated when I don't know what's going on. All of the different times makes it really difficult to keep straight. From what I have understood thus far there are a couple times that Tayo keeps going back to. The day he is living through currently opens with him having nightmares and taking his burrow up to a bar with his war buddy, Harley. He had to stop and take a nap on the way. Harley jokes that it's heat stroke but it's really PTS. They do get to a bar but I get confused here. Tayo goes back to a time where he tries to kill Emo for insulting him and being a mean drunk. I can't tell if Emo is at the bar at this time. Silko has shown the readers two sides of Tayo's Auntie. In the first introduction she is caring for Tayo, I assume right after the war, and in the other she is separating herself from him to keep up an image. She is ashamed of all of her family except her son Rocky. Josiah is sleeping with a Mexican woman, Tayo's mother slept and ran off with white men, and Old Grandma is blind and does nothing to defend her family.
There are so many stories and I can't be sure of the order of all of them. It makes more sense the more I read but I have so many questions. How did Tayo's mother die? When does Josiah die? Is Tayo responsible for the cattle dying? Does Auntie still distance herself from Tayo after the war and only caring for him to keep up an image or does she really change her mind about him? Every few pages leads to a new bit of information the clears up one question but gives way to twenty more. I know I'll get it but it's a hard book to read. I usually don't fall behind on the reading but this week I am. Not a lot but probably twenty pages. Going back and picking apart different sections is helping. I'm finding details that I missed the first time is it clears a few of my questions. My annotations are mostly questions and quotes I like. The theme of PTS is definitely there but the other ones are harder to find. I like the book and I know I'll get it. I just have to catch up and wait for the ending to wrap everything up.
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