Tayo returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation from fighting in the Philippines carrying the weight of trauma and a different …show more content…
This conflict between healing, which would have him follow the ceremony and be healed, and the fate the destroyers had for him is one that significantly challenges his view of reality. In the novel, this conflict also symbolizes the theme of tradition, and how the act of storytelling can help to heal the harmful effects of modern technology, inequality, and mistreatment of the earth. The ceremony that Tayo must commit to to counter the witchery of the destroyers is an example of the reconciliation of his beliefs and the violence he must face. In the end of the novel, when Tayo is faced with the results of his actions, he is relieved that he did not fall victim to the temptation of destructiveness, and so did not himself contribute to the evil that witchery brings to this world: so showing the reader the deeper meaning in her