When a person is struggling with their mental instability, society is often quick to just deem them as “mad” but then refuse to look beneath the surface of their problems. For people who struggle with mental instability, pinpointing the root cause and finding the proper “cure” is integral, so that the instability will not worsen and branch out into other problems. In the book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, the character Emo suffers from the prolonged effects of war-induced trauma, which causes him to exhibit eccentric behavior that consists of carrying around a bag of human teeth, turning to alcoholism, and partaking in violence. Emo’s behavior can be judged as reasonable because his actions are the repercussions of the turmoil he faced during the war, and his madness as well as his character as a whole is Silko’s way of conveying that sometimes, war can have unexpected as well as unwanted repercussions on people because the turmoil that one experiences can later manifest itself into abnormal and possibly even violent behavior.…