Silko's "Ceremony": Summary

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be
looked at as an outsider even amongst his own family members.


It was a private understanding between the two of them.
When Josiah or old Grandma or Robert was there, the agreement
was suspended, and she pretended to treat him the same as she
treated Rocky, but they both knew it was only temporary.... She
was careful that Rocky did not share these things with Tayo, that
they kept a distance between themselves and him. But she would
not let Tayo go outside or play in another room alone. She wanted
him close enough to feel excluded..(67)

This however did not affect the relationship between his
cousin Rocky who he learned to love as a brother and his uncle Josiah and
his Grandma. The only person who saw Tayo as a disgrace to the family was
his aunt and she felt that because of this now she had to work harder to
show the rest of the community that she was a good aunt and that she had to
deal with much suffering. ...

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his only
chance. She saw it as her only chance too, after all the village

gossip about their family. When Rocky was a success, no one
would dare to say anything against them anymore. (51)

The aunt did not understand what it was that she was actually acuring by
letting her son forget about his own culture and embrace a culture in
which he does not belong to. Even if he did embrace that culture and
would live amongst the white people, he would have never been looked as
a part of their society, but as an outcast like Tayo.
These, however, were not the only people that thought
the same way. The Indian men who Tayo and Rocky fought along with in ...

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