Introduction: Ceremony is a novel written by Leslie Marmon Silko. It
             deals with the gender roles of three women are significant to the
             development of a character namedd Tayo who is half-white and
             half-Indian. These three women are Tayo's birth mother, Auntie, and
             Old Grandma. His mother left him when he was four years old and that
             began his sense of emptiness and abandonment. She could not bear to
             raise a child that brought the reservation shame by her mistake.
             Summary: Auntie raised Tayo and was the mother figure he lacked.
             She had no problem accepting to take him, but only to "conceal the
             shame of her younger sister". Auntie was always hesitant toward Tayo
             as he was not her real son and was also a half-breed. For Tayo, this
             only added to his feeling of displacement and emptiness. She would
             give her affection and attention to her real son Rocky, but would let
             After the war Auntie nursed him because he was all she had left after
             Rocky got killed. He would wake up crying after dreaming about how
             much Josiah had loved him and always hugged him when he was a
             littlt child . Now he realized that there was no place left for him and he
             would never find peace. Auntie may have been a mother figure to him,
             but to Tayo she was just someone who looked after him.
             Old Grandma, unlike Auntie, does accept Tayo and wants what is best
             for him. When Auntie rejected the idea of a medicine doctor because
             he's not "full blood", Old Grandma got angry and said that he was her
             grandson and why should she care what they say anyway. She has
             been around for many years and doesn't worry about what other people
             will say about Tayo or about their family.
             The significance of Montano to the novel, Ceremony is very powerful
             and vital to the recovery of Tayo. She lives up in the rim rock and is in
             touch with the earth and her surroundings in ev
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