Leslie Van Houten

everything in my power to revitalize this downtown.” In 1971 they began the development outside of Elgin that is now Cedar Hills. Nancy Lou used two moving vans to move their belongings to Elgin. One was full of their household possessions, and the other was used solely for Katie, her 1935 Buick Coupe. Showing up in Elgin with two moving vans made for quite an entrance into the small community. Nancy Lou drove Katie all over the Elgin area for her first few years living here. She remembers…

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Leslie Marmon Silko begins the text by describing her difference. Silko then uses this difference as the groundwork for the rest of the text, describing how differences are viewed in the Laguna culture, followed by stories on Yellow Woman and what makes her beautiful. Silko bases the entire text around difference, surrounded by details of beauty and her culture as backing, creating a sense of resolution. In the beginning of the text, Silko states “From the time I was a small child, I…

since the coming of the white race, the growing genre of Native American literature often explores the relationship between Native American culture and white culture and the effects such a contrasting mixture of perspectives can have on a human being. Leslie Marmon Silko, arguably the predominant Native American author, examines this relationship profoundly in Ceremony, the story of a Laguna Indian World War II veteran named Tayo who fights the post-traumatic stress disorder the war inflicted…

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is a story about reconstruction, redemption, and the salvation of oneself and world. The mixed narrative of prose and poems follows the recovery of Tayo, a Native American man who returns home to the Laguna Pueblo reservation after fighting in World War II riddled with PTSD and hatred towards the outside world. Tayo 's struggles represent the struggles of the clashing of Native American and White culture both in physical space and within people, as Tayo represents…

“Lullaby” is one of Leslie Marmon Silko’s most noted pieces out of her collection of short stories in her book “Storyteller.” In this short story, it starts off with an old woman named Ayah, who is reminiscing on life experiences. Silko writes the story as if it were told from a storyteller, just as the Natives shared stories amongst each other in order to heal and transform the experience of loss in both personal and culture. (Taibl) With storytelling, Silko includes Native American culture,…

Leslie Marmon Silko novels, Ceremony and Storyteller, both use figurative language and point of view in order to express her culture in a way the readers may understand. Although both novels are alike, they differ through the structure and format of the novels - storytelling and nonlinear narrative. In “Ceremony” Silko use of images center Laguna life and Native American culture, while “Storyteller” is structured through short stories of Laguna people. Both texts explore the similarities of…

In Storyteller, Silko emphasizes the concept of human nature through the usage of register, spacing, and semantic choices in an effort to help the reader gain a clear understanding of people and their instincts. The marxist lens shows how Silko employs purposeful spacing and analogies to highlight the innate temporal instinct that humans ultimately possess and how that leads to direct consequences. In Silko’s story regarding the Ck’o’yo medicine man (105-113), she employs poetry style writing…

The Man to Send Rainclouds is a short story written by Leslie Marmon Silko about Native American Leon and his brother-in-law, Ken, and the events that unfold after they find their grandfather, Teofilo, dead, under a cottonwood tree. The story deals with topics concerning religion and faith, specifically the cultural divide between Father Paul (the priest at their local Roman Catholic church),and the Pueblo Native Americans. This story takes place in New Mexico, near their sheep camp. The text…