Reflection

This past week we finished reading and annotating the novel "Ceremony". We continued to focus on analyzing this book, and once again there was a very strong focus on the idea of healing in this section of the book. In this part of the book, Tayo is thinking about the ceremony that he just completed, and it said he was "testing" the feeling against the feeling he had before the ceremony. This "testing" was Tayo's way of checking whether or not the ceremony had actually affected him and successfully worked on him, and got rid of the pain in his life. Also, Tayo was worried about whether or not these affects would be permanent or if they would wear away over time. In the end of this section Tayo realizes that this ceremony could be too good to be true. He goes out with his friends and gets really drunk, which shows that his pain is not gone because he had to use alcohol to cover up this pain. Obviously, the end of this book was strongly focused on the idea of healing, and it just shows how important this idea is to Tayo, and to the native culture as a whole.