Jan 27-31

This week we read the first third of "Ceremony", written by Leslie Silko. It's about Tayo, a half Native American half white man who is a vet. from WWII who has PTSD and Alcoholism. So far he has collapsed while boarding a train, became invisible and almost killed someone. He collapsed because he was just coming out of the vet hospital and saw a Japanese family, the Japanese killed his cousin Rocky so he's pretty scarred by that. He was invisible because he refused to acknowledge his existence, because he had PTSD his mind wouldn't allow itself to rise out of this belief, he was finally brought out of it by a new doctor who tried some different methods on him. He almost killed Emo, an all native vet who came back to the Res after WWII with some suvoniers, some Jap officer's teeth. This really set off Tayo who then proceeded to stab Emo with a broken beer bottle, almost killing him.