Gloria Bird is the author of this essay where she discusses "Ceremony" the novel we have read for our english class. Bird brings up several great and insightful points throughout her essay, which I think are very important for people to hear and comprehend. A general idea the author uses is about colonization: how we take the beliefs of people around us and accept them as our own. Something we should do, she suggests, it look at texts in the broader sense of the mind, as in what many other people would think about it, not just your own personal beliefs. One important device she discusses throughout her essay is language and just because you don't know a certain language, does not mean you can't appreciate it and the culture behind it. Ceremony shows us how to free ourselves of what others believe we must be, and this makes it a very inspirational novel to read.
Something that Bird said in her essay really stood out to me. She brought out the point that "readers must learn to 'see' the world differently if they want to understand this work" (3). I think this is very important because this is very true of several different pieces of work related to our understanding. It goes back to the idea of decolonization: you must take yourself our of your familiar realm and take in new ideas and experiences to understand other people and their beliefs. I really enjoyed this essay because of the message it sends out to readers, and it also helps in the understanding of reading Ceremony.
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Sara,
ReplyDeleteSee my post on the summary. You need to cover her points more thoroughly.
Dr R
Not so much a summary as it is a reader response, but some great points nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteI think your summary did a good job of summing up some of the points in the article. I like that not only was it accurate, it was personal, too.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you explained Ceremony so well and kept comparing the two using some of your own thoughts.
ReplyDeleteYour response was more of a response than a summary, but your first paragraph was great in its detail and you explored many important points.
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