EYES, of the Reader

I chose to compare Sarah Toner's essay point by point because of her final conclusion. Similar to my explanation of the facilitated author-reader discussion that breaks the borders necessary to relay the thought and emotion that accompanies the events of the novels, Sarah draws a similar conclusion about the destruction of borders. I find it interesting that our papers approached different issues, yet resulted in comparable, even universal conclusions. The following passage provides yet another interpretation, most appropriately on the page discusing the Eyes of the Reader.

The tragedy of the Atomic Bomb and that of the Holocaust are both representative of a struggle created in America that seems to persist through time, that reaches across cultures, generations, and literature. This fact shows the potential triviality of all human-made boundaries, which may be realized with another apocalyptic event like the Bomb or the Holocaust. But is this ultimate tragedy, our destruction, the only result of convergence of peoples and dissolving boundaries? Ceremony points its readers in this direction at the climax of the novel which takes place at Trinity Site in White Sands, where the first atomic bomb ever exploded, and here, one possile answer is laid out for us. Standing at this point, Tayo realized he had "arrived at the point of convergence where the fate of all living things, and even the earth, had been laid...From that time on, humans were one clan again, united by the fate the destroyers had planned for all of them"(Silko, p.246). Sarah Toner