Human Interaction In Things Fall Apart And Coyote Goes To Toronto

Human interactions in various literary works In spite of the social contrasts, characters’ values and behavior are formed by their past and incredibly impacted by their populace. For this essay, three literary works were analyzed, and they portrayed a considerable impact on characters’ lives, namely Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, Tsushima’s “The Silent Traders”, and King’s “Coyote Goes to Toronto”. It is consequential to indicate that all texts were written by authors from different parts of the world, in addition, they represent the different time and cultural values. The intention of this paper is to show the impact that the community and history had on characters and what authors wanted to attain by presenting those in their literary works.
Moreover, friends of Okonkwo openly condemn it, and Okonkwo himself experiences the gravest of remorse after the murder. Ritual murder, as it is depicted in the novel — not a feast of savages, hungry for blood and happy to shed it — this is a human tragedy. Cultural traditions like this one can affect human’s behavior and not in a positive way. Contrarily, Yuko Tsushima’s short story “The Silent Traders” contains a modern issue of being a single mother, some type of outcast of the society. Yuko Tsushima makes use of the creature world as a reflection for our own sufferings, the family relationship she portrays echoes within the less complex, a statelier world of cats and dogs (Manguel, 311). The main character of “The Silent Traders” is a single mother who experienced some loses in her past and now lives it with “lack of interest” in things. Her main concern throughout the text is the relationship between her two children and their biological father: “But these fathers don’t care how many children they have-- they don’t even notice that they are fathers. Yet the existence of offspring makes them
Among humans, it seems there’s an understanding that a man becomes a father only when he recognizes the child as his own; but that’s a very narrow view” — claims the narrator (Tsushima, 421). She seeks for the father of her children because she did not have one present in her life and would like them to have some clear image of their dad besides the photographs they have taken. Her devotion to her children is remarkable and it is obvious they only care about her being present in their life, living it without a father figure. Eventually, there is an importance of community’s support in character’s change of beliefs, which is revealed in the poem “Coyote Goes to Toronto” written by Thomas King. “Coyote” used as a term to describe tricksters in Native American literature, a person who forget traditional values. Dawn Pettigrew explains in research that “Coyote also creates a method of coping with the dominant cultural oppression that surrounds him and the Native Americans. As he survives nature and humankind, Coyote serves as a symbol of Native Americans' experience; since the discovery of Columbus on their shores” (Pettigrew,