Tayo's Healing Analysis

Tayo's healing Before Tayo went to Betonie, the story would ramble on and change dramatically from one story to the next with no warning. This was presumably to mimic how Tayo experienced his life, which was confusing and painful. After Tayo went to Betonie, the story became much more lucid and clearly flowing, showing Tayo is healing. What healed Tayo was his connection back to who he was, which Betonie helped clear up. Betonie sat Tayo down and told him some stories, such as that of his grandmother or the witchery tale. Both of these stories helped heal Tayo because they brought up issues that were important, such as his ancestry and white people in his culture. This is in stark contrast to how Tayo was treated in the military hospital. When Tayo was in the military hospital, he could not be healed by the white doctors, which made Tayo sick and depressed. Betonie used cultural significant …show more content…
Tayo searched for the constellation Betonie had drawn, and that took him to T’seh’s home. When Tayo met T’seh, there was a considerable difference in how he experienced his pain. “The terror of the dreaming he had done on this bed was gone, uprooted from his belly; and the woman had filled the hollow spaces with new dreams.” (p. 219) Even after his first interaction with T’seh, he was a more healed person. As he began to get to know T’seh more, he learned more about how to heal. That included learning how to ignore what other people thought about him or his family, how to not act of revenge, and appreciate nature in a different way. In Ceremony, whenever Tayo mentions T’seh, he sounds more healed and happier than he was in the beginning of the book, when he cried and vomited for often than not. “Tayo looked at the long white hairs growing out of the lips like antennas, and he got the choking in his throat again, and he cried for all of them, and for what he had done.” (p.