struggle to find himself. He struggles to adapt to a world where his people have to fight

between the what "whites" say is the true path, and what his culture says the right path.

Ceremony displays Tayo's struggle by comparing his struggle to find his own path, to the

other Native American's and their fight to their own path.

The book starts as Tayo is in bed going over the war in his mind... He remembers how the

Japanese looked like him, same skin color and how Rocky told him, "It's is what we're here

to do" and how he doesn't understand why he's there killing people that look like him, and

possibly feel the same way he does. But he is there because the "white" recruiter told him

that he could fly planes, and make America proud. He remembers the clash of his path

between what the white man wanted and his path. Tayo became so entranced with the

idea that the Japanese were like him that he started to put people he knew at home's

faces on the Japanese soldiers. Tayo could not see the reason for killing the Japanese, and

solution isn't that simple and that the author stated such a thing is a step down as her

books are written by scientists. They know everything there is to know about beef cattle.

main character call everyone else destroyers, and punishers of Mother Earth. The main

That's the trouble with the way people around here have always done things-they never

race, while Tayo thought of his people as the true seekers of knowledge, and the "white

reading books on it, and saw the "white man's" definition of "perfect cattle" and laughed,

time when Rocky died. Tayo's path paralleled but was always a step behind, because he

wanted to spit on tradition and move on, this being where the path's in the book began to

shark. One who say's the enemy is other's and gets bloodlust to end the problem. The

example the cattle raising... Josiah was bringing cattle home that he'd bought and was

healers of the land. He watched "white men" destroy his land, his people, and the Mother

"Destroyers", or the ones who destroy everything, Tayo's path merged with one purpose

Tayo started very early trying to find his path, but yet his path paralleled Rocky's until the

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Approximate Word count = 860
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)