At the start of the novel, he lives apart from his relatives Auntie (Rocky's mother) and Old Grandma. Tayo suffered from nausea, weakness, and feelings of severe depression and alienation after his return. He is haunted by his memories of his cousin Rocky the two of them had fought together in the American campaign against the Japanese, but Rocky had been captured by the Japanese and executed. Tayo, a young World War II veteran and member of the Laguna Pueblo American Indian community, has just spent a restless night on his community's reservation. After this, the main prose narrative begins. Ceremony begins with a poem invoking the constructive power of stories, and calling on ritual and ceremony as forces that can stand against evil influences.
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