Consider this quote from Silko’s Ceremony, “as [the tears] fell, the hollow inside his chest folded into the black hole, and he waited for the collapse into himself.” In this passage Tayo is experiencing the memory of the death of his cousin Rocky and it causes an extreme reaction in him (Silko 124). Now, suppose that there is a reader who first encounters this passage before he/she has experienced a death of a loved one. This reader might sympathize with Tayo but, unable to relate to their own experiences, would feel a bit of detachment. Next, suppose that this same reader has been on the Earth for a couple of more years than when they first read the novel, and in this time they lost their own cousin. When this reader goes back and reads the
