It's as if threads of guilt tangle in his mind, strangling his ability to comprehend reality, especially when other veterans on the Laguna Pueblo reservation turn to sex, alcohol and violence to cope. After being a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, alcoholism, battle fatigue (now called post traumatic stress disorder), mental illness, and guilt all plague Tayo. When you get into the plot of Ceremony what you first discover is that Tayo is a complicated character. It is as if you have to give the words time to mellow and ultimately saturate your mind.First things first. It is better to take in small sips of the scenes in order to let them slide over your subconscious and filter slowly into your brain. It is not the kind of thing you gulp down in chug-a-lug like fashion. I like to compare reading Silko to drinking a icy cold glass of limoncello.
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