![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t guess you could keep up with news very well in the hospital” (Ceremony 18) in regards to the Japanese-Americans. Later, it becomes clear that the story takes place within the year 1945 during Tayo’s interaction at the train station in which the depot man tells him “they’ve turned them all loose again. For example, it is implied that the story must take place in the years surrounding World War II, as the opening paragraph references “Japanese soldiers shouting orders” (Ceremony 6) to Tayo. ![]() The narrative does not rely on specific dates, and the timeline of the story comes together through context clues and inferences. When read through the lens of Western culture, the chronology of Ceremony is both jarring and difficult to understand. ![]()
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