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The Battle of Iwo Jima takes place, and nuclear bomb testing occurs.
Section 10 (Final Ceremony)| Section | Summary |
|---|---|
| Preface | In the Preface, Leslie Marmon Silko describes her writing process during the creation of Ceremony. Depressed and homesic... Read More |
| Section 1 (Battle Wounds) | Ceremony opens with three Native American poems about the "Thought Woman" who invents the story the reader is about to r... Read More |
| Section 2 (Family Stories) | When Tayo comes home from the war, Auntie picks him up from the train station. She brings him home and cares for him, ev... Read More |
| Section 3 (The Attack) | Harvey and Tayo arrive at the bar on their donkeys. Tayo drinks his beer slowly, feeling the memories churn inside him. ... Read More |
| Section 4 (Josiah's Plan) | The narration flashes back to when Rocky and Tayo joined the army. The recruiter comes to the reservation hoping to spea... Read More |
| Section 5 (Night Swan) | Before the war, Tayo tries to perform the ancient rain dance ceremony to dispel the drought. Because no one has taught h... Read More |
| Section 6 (Modern Medicine) | The new medicine man, Betonie, lives in a shack near the Gallup ceremony grounds. When he and Tayo first meet, they disc... Read More |
| Section 7 (Helen Jean) | Tayo hitchhikes away from Betonie's after the scalp ceremony is complete. He stops at a truck stop to buy some candy and... Read More |
| Section 8 (Floyd Lee's Ranch) | Tayo sets out in search of Josiah's lost cattle, because "there were transitions that had to be made in order to become ... Read More |
| Section 9 (Summer With Ts'eh) | Robert and Tayo return to pick up the cattle. Ts'eh's hut is empty, but the cattle have clearly been well cared for. Bac... Read More |
| Section 10 (Final Ceremony) | Running through the woods looking for somewhere to take cover, Tayo stumbles across the uranium pit where the first atom... Read More |
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