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Summary Of The One About Coyote Going West Thomas King
The One About Coyote Going West is a short story by Thomas King, which offers a creation story that immediately appears to be extremely natural and totally remote. From at an early stage in the content, this mixing of the comfortable with the new is obvious. The majority of the certainties in this story are totally stirred up; accordingly, the reader is estranged from the stories they know about. As King says “Maybe I tell you the one about Christopher Cartier looking for something good to eat. Find us Indians in a restaurant in Montreal. Maybe I tell you the one about Jacques Columbus come along that river. Indians waiting for him. We all wave and say here we are, here we are” (King 70). It powers the reader to address what they know,
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