Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

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“The only cure I know is a good ceremony, that’s what she said”. Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony, uses Tayo’s internal conflict to show the effect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD, is a mental health condition which can be triggered from experiencing or even seeing a horrifying event. When Tayo arrives home from war, he is faced with the trauma he has endured from the war and the death of his uncle Josiah and of his cousin Rocky whom had been killed right in front of him. In Ceremony, after Tayo’s arrival from war, he struggles with sleep tremendously for a long time. The traumatic memories and experiences that happen to be tangled in the back of his brain are the causes of