Why do Humans need Acceptance?
After reading on, I have found myself enjoying Ceremony but I still think it is an unusually scattered book. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Unwillingness to provide chapters or a narration without poems that seem to be there to add confusion makes this book very very different. I believe Silko did this intentionally and I am interested to discuss the different moves she has made in class. I am also looking for some clarity when it comes to poems.
I would also like to point out why Tayo seems to be so bitter, as well as sick, and crazy. There is talk of the war but I don’t think it has to do with the PTSD. It is more social, and that is why Tayo is throwing up, crying, having these panic attacks. He doesn’t feel accepted with the human race. He blatantly talks about what it feels like to be accepted when they are buying drinks at the bar, and during the war he was accepted by everyone. Now he is an outcast, can’t even touch the lady at the bus depots hand when she is counting change. Tayo feels like he isn’t worth anything after he had served his time in the war and he no longer has a purpose in this society. Humans always need acceptance but I didn’t understand why so I looked it up. The “best answer” on why humans need acceptance is as follows;
“Best Answer: Many, many years ago, early humans lived in packs, hunted together, gathered together, and protected each other. If one of the individuals wasn't pulling their weight in the tribe, they would be ostracized, and more likely than not, they would be dead within three days. Without his or her friends to hunt and protect them, they will die.
Modern humans have carried that mentality over. It's just one of those traits that has survived evolution for thousands of years. It has been proven that people with less human contact during the "critical period" of their development (between 6 months and 3 years, or so) are nearly incapable of integrating into society.”
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