“The barn was so alive with all of the pigs inside.”
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is a nice example of a Native American tradition of storytelling. Being considered relatively popular among Native American literature, also called Indian literature or American Indian literature. It has its own special impact by being a book, considering the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas is a communal and oral event where the elders tell the stories. The story telling in this book is in the form of poems. These stories are in fact traditional community stories. Some of the prose sections are narrated in a third person style, however the poems vary between first and third person.
Most ceremonies of the traditional stories revolve around procuring a good rainfall, as signals of the spirits, that could either aprove por show their displeasure with the community (drought) being depicted as a destructive spirit. In the book the character Josiah tells Tayo when he was a child, that all in life has both a good and a bad side as another example of their spirituals believes.
I think this book best reflects American culture, morals, and philosophy because it includes descriptions about ceremonies and ritual to cure people from their community. One thing often presented in ancient stories, including in this book is the believe that forgetting our people's tradition brings disaster and drought, therefore preserving traditiond,specially when it comes to subjects related to medicine, is very important to the native american culture.
The correct answer is D. It is not a strong example of paraphrasing. It just rearranges the original words in a new order.
Explanation:
In writing, paraphrasing implies using the ideas of an external source and author and expressing them by using your own words, because of this a strong paraphrasing would change the language used but keep the essence and main points of the original ideas. In the excerpt presented, the author tried to paraphrase a passage that describes cone snails. However, in the passage paraphrased the author uses the same terms and words than in the original passage which means he or she is not expressing the ideas of the original passage with his or her own words but only changing the order of ideas the text and therefore this is not a strong paraphrasing and can even be considered a plagiarism as the same words and ideas are being used. Therefore, this text can be described as "It is not a strong example of paraphrasing. It just rearranges the original words in a new order".