Leslie marmon silko - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

English Unit Excerpt Comprehensive Test Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all—all the Englishes I grew up with.How does Tan build a central idea of her story i...

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Tayo's trip up Mt. Taylor and its symbolism of hiding the effects of colonialism. The symbols that Ts'eh represents about the Native American lifestyle before the effects of colonialism.

How Tayo was negatively impacted by the effects of colonization using examples from his childhood science teacher.

An analysis of how writing in the third person perspective impacts how characters are portrayed in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.

An analysis of how magic and witchcraft are utilized to improve the dynamic in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.

An analysis of how gender roles are represented in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.

How authority figures compare to each other in Silko's Ceremony and DeLillo's White Noise.

Comparing the depictions of "cowboys" in Silko's novel Ceremony and Proulx's short story The Mud Below.