The theory of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, particularly the stage "The Crossing of The Return Threshold," parallels with Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, as it serves to elucidate the protagonist Tayo’s reentry and reconciliation to the Laguna Pueblo culture, from which he was socially banished, and his struggle to reclaim his sense of place and identity. Initially, Tayo returns to his home with the cattle he had set out to retrieve, and after dealing with a confrontation with Emo, he gets a chance to speak to his Auntie and Grandma. In Ceremony, similar to how a “hero can return to the real world” (Cambell 2) Tayo returns and reunites with his true family, Tayo’s grandma addresses that “it seems like I already heard these stories
