I liked Ceremony a whole lot better than DOS or TAD, but reading it the first time around was really confusing and i had to resist the urge to Sparksnotes some things that i didn't understand. In Ceremony, i felt like i was being tugged from one TV channel to another where nothing makes much sense because its all jumbled together.
But i get it now. Thats just Ceremony's nature, that sort of 'you'll understand it later' deal. Everything sort of makes sense and i look forward to talking to my peers about it in class. Which is a much better feeling than the 'i-want-to-slam-this-freakin-book-down-dude-stop-puking-why-r-u-banging-Night-Swan-wtf-is-up-with-the-mountainlion-its-symbolic-but-how?-omg-thank-the-Lord-I'm-done.' feeling i had the previous week.
I feel like i have an emotional connection to Tayo because I've gone through similar things he has, to a much lesser extent, being Asian raised in white culture, i struggle with the same struggle he goes through. Its like...where is that happy median between your roots and the environment that you live in? Theres not one, you've just gotta make one thats right for you. At the same time, i wish he'd grow himself a pair stop trying to run or give up. He's very emotional for a guy (I just typed 'gay', Freudian slip much? haha) and it sometimes annoys me at how impulsive he is. But hey, you're not gonna like everyone in life.
Also, the rate at which 5th hr annotates as a class is almost alarming because we just have to explore every end thread of every detail and there's so many varying opinions. Since i have no words to describe how much it gets on my nerves, i shall replace it with this image:
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