book cover Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
|Animals| |Characters| |Colors| |Places| |Home|

Characters

Auntie –
   with Emo: 40, 53, 57, 106
   With Grandma: 27-28, 31-34, 38-39, 53, 66-67, 70, 76, 81, 89, 92, 116, 260
   With Harley: 40, 53, 57
   With Josiah: 7, 27, 31-32, 35, 67, 71, 81, 89, 92, 260
   With Leroy: 40, 57
   With Night Swan: 89
   With Robert: 27, 31-32, 67, 89-90, 92, 106, 218
   With Rocky: 7, 31-32, 35, 65-66, 116
Bennie – 20, 21
Betonie –
   With Auntie: 116, 125
   With Grandma: 116, 223
   With Josiah: 192
   With Robert: 117-118
   With Rocky: 116
Christ, Jesus – 68
Corn Woman –13
Corporal –12
Descheeny – 145, 148, 149, 150, 152
Doreen 164, 165
Emma – 161, 162, 165, 166
Emo – 60-3, 106, 131, 132, 228, 229, 233, 251-3
   With Auntie - 40
   With Grandma – 39, 52, 53
   With Harley – 20, 23, 25, 57, 59
   With Josiah – 20
   With Leroy – 20, 55, 57
   With Pinkie - 249
   With Rocky – 42, 43
Floyd Lee – 188, 191
Gambler, The – 95, 172, 173, 175, 176
Japanese Americans – 17, 190
Japanese Soldiers – 8, 12, 43, 61, 63, 165
Josiah – 7-9, 11, 20, 25-7, 30-5, 45, 52, 67, 71-4, 77-83, 86, 89-91, 93, 96, 97, 101, 103, 104, 188, 190 192, 193, 196
Grandma
   Arguing with Auntie and Josiah-32, 66
   In Tayo’s thoughts-6, 38
   Sleeping-76
   With Auntie-67, 73, 81, 88-89, 92, 116, 260+
   With her heater-27-28, 39, 91
   With Rocky-51-52
   When she saw atomic bomb flash-245
   With Tayo when he is sick-31, 33-34
   With Tayo after he is better-215
Harley
   Being tortured-250-254
   Dies-258-259
   In Tayo’s thoughts-204, 234
   In the bar-40-43, 55-59, 100, 167-168
   Memory of Wake Island-20
   Riding the burro-19-20, 49
   Stealing old Benny’s beer-21
   Talking with Tayo-22-24, 53-54
   With Helen Jean-155-160
   With Leroy and Tayo-238-241
   With Tayo riding to the bar-25-29
Helen Jean
   With Harley and Leroy in the truck-155-158
   At the bar-159-160
   Talking about her past-161-166
Hunter
   In form of mountain lion-195-196
   The Texans hunting the mountain lion-202
   Talking to Tayo-207
   With Ts’eh-208-210
Ku’oosh –
   With Auntie: 33-35, 38, 218
   With Grandma: 33-34, 38
   With Laura: 33-34
   With Robert: 34-35, 218
   With Rocky: 35, 259
Lalo – 83, 103
Laura – 29, 30, 33, 34, 65
Leroy – 178, 186
   With Auntie – 40
   With Emo – 20, 55, 57, 60, 61
   With Harley – 55, 57, 59, 155-60, 168, 238, 240-1, 248
   With Josiah – 20
   With Pinkie – 59
   With Rocky - 60
Mexican girl – 147
Mike – 91
Night Swan
   With Josiah-84, 88-89, 97
   With married man-84-87
   Tayo tells Betonie about her-124
   With Tayo-97-100
   Leaves-104
Pinkie -
   With Emo: 59-61, 249, 252-253
   With Leroy: 59-61, 248
   With Rocky: 60
Reed Woman – 13
Robert – 27, 31, 32, 39, 51, 67, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 90-2, 106, 114, 117-8, 197, 206, 218, 227-9
Rocky – 7, 8, 11, 12, 18, 19, 21, 27-8, 30-2, 35, 43-4, 50-2, 60, 63-6, 72-3, 80, 102, 114, 116, 259
Romero – 225, 245
Sergeant – 7, 8
Shush – 128
Spider Woman – 94
Sun Man – 94
Tayo
Texans, the – 199, 202
T’seh – 223, 242, 243, 250
Thought Woman – 1
Train Master – 15, 18
Ulibarri – 73
White doctors – 15, 16
This index was compiled by Ms. Beard's students in A202, Themes in Literature in May 2003. It was inspired by the indexes to The Great Gatsby, Grendel, and The Things They Carried by Brother Tom Murphy and his students.

Teachers and students are welcome to use this index for educational purposes. Any commercial use is prohibited.

Updated May 28, 2003.

Ms. Beard's Home Page