Comparing How Stories Came To Earth, Coyote Steals Fire And Master Cat

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In many stories there are a character known as a trickster, he is a master of deception and will travel or deter the hero in a story but common thing happen about and to the trickster in the story. Some common ones is an interaction with a god or deity, their use of cleverness and a use of anthropomorphism. The stories, “How Stories Came to Earth”, “Coyote Steals Fire”; and “Master Cat” have these three things in common. Many examples can show and explain how they are common in the story. The essay will show how the tricksters of story are alike.
First off, Knowing that the trickster characters are common in stories these characters

are almost always similar in one or more ways. The stories “How Stories Came to Earth”,

“Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat” have one of the ways they are in common and that is the …show more content…

In “Coyote Steals Fire” the story tells the reader, “Let

us play a game of dice.” this is the part of the story when Coyote goes to gamble for the fire.

This shows use of anthropomorphism by show an animal gambling with dice. This goes in hand

with the quote from “Master Cat”, “Proud of his prize, he raced straight to the King’s palace and

demanded an audience with him.” Trickster goes well, showing that tricksters have a use of

anthropomorphism because the cat can’t demand an audience as it is a cat like coyote can’t

gamble.

Second off, Knowing that the trickster characters are common in stories these

characters are almost always similar in one or more ways. The stories “How Stories Came to

Earth”, “Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat” have one of the way they are in common and

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