“There remains what still remains.” This is a quote taken from the trickster tale entitled “How Stories Came to Earth.” In this story a spider by the name Anansi tricked creatures to get the stories from the sky god. “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” are two trickster tales that contain many similarities and differences.
There are many similarities present in the two stories “Coyote Steals Fire” and “How Stories Came to Earth.” One similarity that these two stories have in common was that both tricksters in the stories have a man goal. In “Coyote Steals Fire” the coyotes goal was to get fire from the Thunder God by cheating him out in a game of dice. That was the coyotes main goal. In “How Stories Came to Earth” Anansi, the spiders goal was to get all
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Another similarity that both stories share was that both of the tricksters achieved their goal. In “How Stories Came to Earth” Anasis wanted to win the stories over from the Sky God by doing what he asked and he did so he got the stories and shared them with everyone. In “Coyote Steals Fire” the coyotes goal was to get the fire from the Thunder God by playing the game of dice. One thing was that coyote cheated in order to winning this game but he still won the fire that everyone got a piece from. The last similarity both of these stories share was that the end results in both stories benefit society. In the story “How Stories Came to Earth” Anansi got the stories from the Sky God and shared them with everyone so they could have stories too and not just himself. In “Coyote Steal Fire” Coyote won the fire but in a very unfair way. He
The theme the two stories share is about growing up. In the story "Brothers are the Same" Temas had to attempt to slay a lion to prove to the Masai tride that he is an adult.He had to show that he wa...
Here are the flashbacks and foreshadowing. One of the similarities is they both had to do with animals and their parents telling them something. The other is that they have flashbacks of animals. Those are the similarities with flashbacks and foreshadowing.
Some similarities are revolve around the animals playing a big part in how the earth was formed and discovered. The animals in both stories were present first according to the stories.
In both texts "The Unfortunate Fireflies" a fiction article by Clara Dillingham Pierson and "The Discontented Rock" an Iroquois tale by Frances Jenkins Olcott, both characters believed something about themselves that is not true.Both characters believed on something that is slightly similar and slightly different. But, then learned their lesson and the characters changed.
Often, the trickster finds his antics to come back and hurt him, due to greedy, conceited, or boastful behavior. These tales are told in a humorous manner, meant to entertain the reader, but are specifically designed to teach a lesson about human behavior or morals. One trickster tale, “The Coyote and the Buffalo,” is the quintessential trickster story, and uses a coyote as a main character, very popular for early Native American literature. It tells of a coyote that has gotten himself into trouble with Buffalo Bull, his enemy, and has made a deal to give the Buffalo new horns. To express his gratitude, Buffalo Bull gives Coyote a young cow on the condition that he does not kill it, but only cuts off the fat. Soon Coyote gets greedy, and kills the cow for the better meat. However, he is quickly outsmarted by a woman who offered to cook the bones. She ends up stealing them, and the coyote is left with nothing. He pleads to the buffalo for another, but the buffalo will not give it to him, “and that is why there are no buffalo along the Swah-netk’-qhu.”(Allen et. al. 52) The moral of this story is that having too much greed can leave you hungry, instead of full of the riches of life you can gain by listening and following the
both stories shared similar ending and moral which is receiving enlightenment in first hand. "The
The two short stories I chose to compare and contrast are “The Secret Lion” by Alberto Alvaro Rios and “The Man in the Well” by Ira Sher. While reading the two short stories; I realized that they differ from each other in certain ways, but they also have similar characteristics. For example, both short sorties were written in first person point of view. However, “The Secret Lion” contains symbolism, and we can not find symbolism on “The Man in the Well”.
The similarity between both stories is that the theme of death can be found in both stories.
Just look at two creation stories side-by-side and you should easily see their similarities. Perhaps the easiest way to do this would be to take one unknown creation story and compare it to one from one’s own culture. Below is an example of a Mongolian creation myth:
The Lady or the Tiger and The Monkey’s Paw have similarities more than differences, which even gives more reasons why they are close stories. The theme crime and punishment is what the Lady or the Tiger uses, and fate and greed is what The Monkey’s Paw uses. The stories are similar in their point of view, sensory details, and the symbolism. The stories both go around the development of events that is controlled by character/character’s. These stories are frequently not following the same events, but do have events that are similar. These stories are also not made to be similar, which is pretty obvious, but share the same elements that make the story similar. The symbolism in these stories are shared by one character determining a fate of the after events. The symbolism connects the two stories, because the symbolism leads the theme and story. The point of view are the same view, which is 3rd person omniscient point-of-view. If one story has a different point-of-view, then the stories would be completely different, and would be hard to compare. The sensory details are almost the same from both of the stories, because they both build suspense in the story. All of these literary conceits contribute that these stories can be similar from the splot, but from the
One way they are similar and different are there themes of the two stories. In the story “Being Prey” the stories theme is more of a specific theme to a specific situation. One reason this is true is because in the story Plum wood did not take notice of directions, and in turn she was harmed and wounded. One way she didn’t pay attention was when the guide had told her to not get out of the boat and she did it multiple times. Like when she said “I pulled over to tip water from the canoe”. So a possible theme for that story is “Be more meticulous to what you act upon because you never know the potential outcome “. Yes it’s possible, this could be directed in many situations but not the great amount that “A sound of Thunder” has. A possible theme for “A sound of Thunder” could be “In the present day you have no clue what the futures going to be like, so don’t do foolish things to make it worse”. And as you can tell I believe this theme applies to almost every situation and almost everybody. Don’t take that in the wrong way though, the stories themes are also very similar. They both could apply to almost all situations, weather they are hard or easy for example in the story “being Prey “if Eckels was to think of the two themes, he might not be in this senseless situation .Another possible way the two stories are similar and different in there conflicts. In the story “Being Prey” the conflict was when the main character, Plum wood could not get herself out of the crocodile’s death grasp. The conflict in “A sound of thunder “was when Eccles stepped on the butterfly. The conflicts are different because the crocodile had harmed the main character and in “A sound of thunder” the main character wounded the animal. That was one way they were different. Some way they are similar in the conflicts was the way they effected the future. In the end they both drastically
In both of these stories the tricksters use their wits to gain what they desire. Anansi the spider must use his cleverness in order to gain the stories he wants from Nyame the sky god. The cat must use his wit to come up with ways to make it look like his master is rich so he can gain social status. Both stories have the protagonists succeed in gaining the things that they desired. In “How Stories Came to Earth” Anansi captures the required creatures and in return gets the stories. In “Master Cat”, and the cat was able to trick the king into thinking his master was rich so his master gained wealth, social status, and a wife. In these stories, the things that the tricksters desire are culturally significant. The Ashanti worshiped the stories that were told, and in France wealth and social status were the things that everyone wanted to have. Finally, the characters interact with gods or powerful beings. In “How Stories Came to Earth” Anansi meets Nyame the sky god and in “Master Cat” the cat is able to trick an ogre. There are many similarities between the two stories, but they have far more
Preliminarily, both stories shared similarities in plot by having most of the main plot elements. For example, during the falling action of both stories the wolf gets killed. The wolf gets killed by the hunter killing him and in “Lon Po Po” the wolf gets killed by falling of the tree, but in the end the wolf gets killed the the families are safe. In the Traditional Tale it states, “and so the brave hunter jumped in the window killed the sleeping wolf and cut him open out jumped Granny and Red Riding Hood where ever so grateful.” This means that the hunter had killed the wolf. This is very
In the original myth of Anansi, it is said to have begun when there were no stories in the world to share. Until one day Kwanku Anansi went to the sky god asking to buy stories from him. Questioningly the sky god asked Anansi with what nerve did he think he could buy stories from him when not even the powerful cities like Kokofu, Bekwai, or Asumengya were able to buy stories from sky god. Anansi was only a powerless and masterless man to him. Somehow Anansi then used his powers to buy stories from the sky god with
What is common in the tales of different peoples? And how do they differ? I have had many questions and wanted to find the answers. My research is devoted to analysis and comparison of the two tales about animals. The first one is the Russian folk tale "The wolf and the goat" and other one is the English folk tale "The wolf and the three kittens". Comparison began with an introduction to the history of fairy tales: the definition of the genre, the collection and study of fairy tales, with their classification. Every person has the recollection of how our grandmother or mother read a lot of interesting tales. The structure of a fairy tale about the animal includes a small amount of text and simple plot.