Story Telling
Within the novel Ceremony one of the most important ideas was the act of story telling. At the end of the novel Tayo’s acceptance and completed ceremony was shown by him telling his story, ceremony, to the elders. Throughout the whole book, story telling was occuring whether it was noticed or not. For example, throughout the book the main plot of Tayo and his ceremony were halted for a brief page or two for another story to be told. The short stories within Tayo’s journey were fantasies but, were telling their own story as well as telling what was occuring in Tayo’s story without truely doing so.
Personally, I felt as if someone was telling me the story instead of me reading it by the way it was written. One of the main reasons for me feeling this way was how no chapters exist. Also the stories within the story felt as if the teller was taking a small break. If that was the author’s intention or not that is what i recieved from it.