Ceremony up to page 54

In this story Tayo has so much compassion for others the his guilt starts to consume him. It is unclear if he actually has personally killed people in the war when he was fighting but he blames himself for all the deaths just because he feels guilty by association. "He didn't know how to explain what had happened. He did not know how to tell him that he had not killed any eery or that he did not think that he had. But that he had done things far worse, and the effects were everywhere in the could less sky, on the dry brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut over sharp bone"(Silko 33). Tayo blames him self for the pain that has been caused and the ripple effect. He relates the war to nature when he talks about the sky and the hills. Tayo sees that everything has a chain reaction. The idea of interactions on Earth contribute to the complex system of life on the planet as a whole, is the Gaia theory which is the outlook Tayo has on the deaths of other and how it's contributing to the sky and the hills.