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Summary Of How Stories Came To Earth And Coyote Steals Fire
“Come and place the branch next to me and we will see if she’s a liar”. This quote came from “How Stories Came to Earth”. Anansi the spider captures animals for stories. He then shares them with his wife and then the world. The stories “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” has some similarities and differences.
There are many similarities in the stories “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire”. The first example of a similarity is that both tricksters both use anthropomorphism. Both the animals talk and walk. Another example is that the tricksters both deal with a powerful force in their stories. In both of the stories the more superior person is a god of some sort. The tricksters both achieve a goal that benefits

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