Short Story The One About The Coyote Going West Thomas King

In short story “The one about the coyote going west” by Thomas King, begins with the narrator telling a story to a coyote about who discover the Indians. The narrator introduces the main character named Coyote, who represented the first colonizer. In addition, as Coyote explores her new land she finds a straight smooth river, and a round mountain. However, Coyote does not accept nature’s true form, therefore she decides to fix the river and mountain to her standard, by added rocks and rapids to the rivers, as well as including cliffs and bumps to the mountains. As the story unfolds, the readers discover that Coyote does not consider the true beauty and simplicity of nature. Furthermore, the changes that she makes, ends up as mistakes. The narrator