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returns to the Western world to share her truth, but it is not clear that the West is willing to escape from its imposed images of the Other. Tayo's platonic quest in Ceremony brings him out of the Western metanarrative of individualism that separates humanity from the world we inhabit. In the mouth of the Jackpile uranium mine, Tayo learns that evil cannot be destroyed because it is an integral part of the cosmic balance. He brings this and other truths back to the kiva (communal cave), the center of his community. Tayo's platonic quest may be the most successful of the four works because he is able to bring his community out of their subjective cave and into the light of truth.