Exploring Themes and Character Development in Ceremony In the first 174 pages of Ceremony, we are introduced to a diverse set of characters whose lives are intertwined through their shared experiences of war and displacement. As I continue to read, I am struck

This week, your job is to read Ceremony up to page 174. You can stop when you get to this sentence: “a thousand dollars a mile to lock the mountain in steel wire, to make the mountain his.”
As you read, continue journaling with a curious and open mind about the themes, characters, and connections that you’re finding. Please write about any of these ideas that we’ve begun exploring together, and write a minimum of 250 words, not counting quoted material:
Notable character developments
Purity/hybridity
Shame
Change/adaptation
Time–Historical past, Historical present, Mythical–Spider’s Web
War/PTSD
Healing and Sickness