Comparing Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

The story is "a powerful device that we have, you can fight disease and death" (Silko 1). In the novel by Leslie Marmon Silko and Haroun, and in the story of Salman Rushdie, this story is for this purpose. Each hero, Tayo and Haroun, have obstacles they have to overcome. Tayo is a veteran of the Native American World War II, suffering from heart disease and suggesting posttraumatic stress disorder. He was told that the ritual is the only way to cure him.

As an important person in the Native American Renaissance, Leslie Marmon Silco combines stories and rituals to form a story of cultural resistance and identity. After returning home from the Second World War, Tayo, the hero of the ceremony, experienced post-traumatic stress disorder just because his mixed identity was more complicated. Throughout his life Tayo's treatment tour, Silko imitates Native American ceremonies and regains the power of indigenous identities.

The story is "a powerful device that we have, you can fight disease and death" (Silko 1). In the novel by Leslie Marmon Silko and Haroun, and in the story of Salman Rushdie, this story is for this purpose. Each hero, Tayo and Haroun, have obstacles they have to overcome. Tayo is a veteran of the Native American World War II, suffering from heart disease and suggesting posttraumatic stress disorder. He was told that the ritual is the only way to cure him.

The ritual of Leslie Marmon Silko tells the story of a mixed-race American indigenous Tayo from Laguna Pueblo, badly wounded during World War II due to unsteady childhood era and combat experience. As the novel progresses, Tayo attempts to recover from these deep psychological traumas by exploiting the various native American cultural traditions. However, his path to mental health is long and difficult. Because the traditional healing ritual of his people must be adapted to treat the new contemporary diseases he suffers, such as alcoholism and the psychological effects of modern warfare. In addition, Silko uses a complicated and fragmented nonlinear plot to express Tayo's psychological struggle. It initially made the story a little confusing, but as the reader understands how Tayo's psychological journey builds up the complex development of the novel, the story becomes easier to understand.