Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.” “They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve.” “They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill what they fear” (Silko 136). Leslie Marmon Silko uses these three short passages taken from an ancient Indian story included in the novel Ceremony to express and convey the idea that the white man’s fear was the primary factor contributing to their negative actions toward the Indian people. The ancient Indian story that the passages are pulled from also explains how Ind