Comparison Of Coyote Steals Fire And How Stories Came To Earth

“What Remains Still Remains” This is a quote taken from the Trickster Tale How Stories Came to Earth. In this story the sky-god would tell this to Anasi after he would capture his creatures. The stories “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” have many differences and similarities within these two trickster tales. “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” share many similarities. In the stories they both use anthropomorphism. In “How Stories Came to Earth” the little old spider had a wife, they had both talked and captured animals bigger then them. In “Coyote Steals Fire” they had also talked and played games with their hands. Both of the stories had goals they both had wanted something. “How Stories Came to Earth” Anansi had wanted the stories to share with the rest of the world. In “Coyote Steals Fire” Coyote had wanted the fire for the tribes. Al of the trickster had achieved their goals in the stories. In “How Stories Came to Earth” Anansi had captured all of his animals and got the stories from the sky-god. In “Coyote Steals Fire” Coyote had beat the Thunder-god from cheating and got the fire thrown at him from Thunder. Both of the stories had benefited society because they both got something but they

In “How Stories Came To Earth” women were viewed highly because Anasia had went to his wife and asked for advice and here advice actually had worked. As in “Coyote Steals FIre” women were viewed less because during their game there were set of teeth and the men teeth were worth two points and the women's were worth 1 point. The two gods personalities were very different from one anothers. The Sky-God had a very good attitude and was nice as the Thunder-God is very mean and has a nasty attitude. In “Coyote Steals Fire” Coyote cheats out the Thunder-God to win what he wanted but the Thunder God tried to kill