Ahow Stories Came To Earth Summary

Imagine a talking spider whom with the help of his wife fulfills the challenges presented to him by the sky god to receive the god’s stories to share with the world. Also imagine a talking Coyote cheating his way through a game of dice with the feared thunder god over the control of fire. These are two different trickster tales of different cultural importances. Trickster tales are stories that are centered around a character of cultural importance that contain anthropomorphism and usually explain a natural happening. ¨How Stories Came to Earth” and ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨ are both similar and different in various ways including they contain objectives, power entities, and are of different cultures. In the trickster tale ¨ How Stories Came to Earth, the objective of Anansi the spider is to trap a
We are able to conclude this by the use of locations like the jungle and its animals like pythons and tigers, names such as Aso and Nyame, and other dialect in the story. ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨ is from the Native American culture, which this is easily deduced by characters such as coyote, the objectives, and different context that makes statements on the culture. In the african culture the women are equal to men which is shown by way of Anansi's wife Aso helping him come up with plans to catch the animals, But in the Native American culture, women are of lesser value. This is shown by the male dice having a greater value than the female dice. These two cultures are very different. Trickster tales are stories that are centered around a character of cultural importance that contain anthropomorphism and usually explain a natural happening. ¨How Stories Came to Earth” and ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨ are both similar and different in various ways including they contain objectives, power entities, and are of different cultures. The cultures are very different, the characters are different, but the objectives are