Ceremony part 4

Tayo had began to heel being with Betonie. He knows what Tayo needs in order to get better. " the ceremony isn't over yet. He was drawing in the dirt with his figures. Remember these stars he said. I've seen them and I've seen the spotted cattle; I've seen a mountain and I've seen a women" (Leslie Marmon Silko 141). Betonie is guiding Tayo thought his path of  healing and showing him what he must do while still giving him the space to do it on his own. "But the effects of the witchery of the evil thing began to leave his body. The effects of the witchery of the evil thing in his surroundings began to turn away" (Silko 142). Tayo is learning how do deal with the evil i his life and that is allowing him to heal and the evil to seem less present. Tayo wants to be healed. "Leroy and Harley were happy; they had wine and six-packs, and they didn't watch her the way Tayo did." (Silko 144) Lust and drinking are distractions and block the path of healing. Tayo wants to heal and therefor is not focusing on distractions and just on his mental health.

Indians were treated differently after war. They got no respect after returning home. "They had been treated first class once, with their uniforms. As long as there has been a war and the white people were afraid of the Japs and Hitler. But these Indians got fooled when they thought it would last." (Silko 153) After returning home from war, there survive and honor was forgotten and they were back to only being seen as the stereotypical lower class Indian. Indians suffered and sacrificed during the war as well and had nothing good to turn. "she knew where to find them-which downtown bars they liked. She knew the veterans' disability checks came out around the first of the month." (Silko 151) They used money they got from the war to forget the war. They had no real support system and this lead many of them down a dark path. Indians not only dealt with war trauma but also with trauma for their history. "So they tried to sink the loss in booze, and silence their grief with war stories about their courage, defending the land they had already lost." (Silko 157).  They let drinking take over to forget the hardships they went thought over seas and to forget the struggles of their past as well.