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Comparison Of Master Cat And Coyote Steals Fire

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“Stop the Thieves, but it was no use. The scoundrel had hidden the clothes under a rock”. Master cat, from "Master Cat" said this as he tricked the king into giving the Marquis the clothes. There are both similarities and differences between "Master Cat" and "Coyote Steals Fire" such as what happens and how it happens. There are many similarities between the trickster tale "Master Cat" and "Coyote Steals Fire". One of the Similarities is that they both involve tricking and authoritative figure figure. Both the king and the thunder god have authority over the trickster. In both stories the tricksters get what they want from the god/king. In both "Coyote Steals Fire" and "Master Cat" the tricksters both lie and cheat to get what they want. Coyote cheats the thunder god into giving away fire, master cat tricks the king into giving away his daughter’s hand in marriage. …show more content…

In "Coyote Steals Fire" coyote cheats at dice while alternatively Master Cat kills to get what he wants. Coyote is interested in giving fire to all animals while thunder wants to keep it all for himself. Master Cat wants to take money and land for himself and the Marquis. Lastly "Coyote Steals Fire" was told orally and was passed down through generations while "Master Cat" was written down and part of the mother goose tales. There are differences and similarities between "Coyote Steals Fire" and "Master Cat" Imagine if the king found out the Marquis was poor. He might be executed or banished for crimes against the

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“Where is he so that i can kill him” this is said by thunder when he wants to kill coyote for cheating in coyote steals fire. In the story coyote gambles his life for fire with the thunder god,the coyote cheated during the entire game and that angered thunder. In response to this thunder threw fire at coyote, but it was a fake coyote. After reading coyote steal fire and how stories came to earth it was obvious,how similar they were but yet they were so different at the same time.

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“Coyote Steals Fire,” are two trickster tales that include several similarity and differences. The two trickster tales “Coyote Steals Fire,” and “Master Cat,” have various similarities. Each trickster tale contained anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism can be defined as giving human characteristics to gods or animals.

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One of the similarities is that Sam finds falcon by climbing a cliff . Sam decided to name the falcon Frightful , who he also raised in captivity. Another similarity is how sam burned the inside of his tree home to hollow it out .Sam remembered how the Indians hollow out their canones by burning the inside of the boat. Also in the book and the movie there are poachers .

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For example, both of these texts share the setting of a cold climate. Plus, the men in both stories have an amazing sense of direction and know where they are going without being able to see tracks from those who have come before them. Also, the boy and dog aid the men on their quests. In Powder the father treats the boy as something to protect, but in To Build a Fire the man uses the dog as an "experiment" just to make sure that he himself didn't get cold feet. Furthermore, in Powder the man and boy aid each other and their relationship grows, whereas in To Build a Fire the relationship starts out fine then as the story progresses the man uses the dog instead of caring for him.

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For example, there are antagonists in both of the stories. But there are many more similarities than that. Similarities In the story “Three Billy Goats Gruff” there are two different countries telling the story. One is Norway, and the other country is Poland/Germany.

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The authors use foreshadowing to build suspense in both of the stories. In the story “Old Ben” Pa said “The only good snake, is a dead snake.” In the story “Fox Hunt” the similarity of suspense is when Leona Hu appears suddenly. The authors use flashback differently in both of the stories.

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In both myths, in the process of the protagonist getting the fire, at least one animal’s physical trait was changed. And, in both myths the antagonists are female. In the Coyote myth, when the coyote was running down the hill trying to get away from the Fire Beings after stealing their fire, one touched the tip of his tail and stained it white, and that is why coyotes have white end the end of their tails. Then, the coyote flung the fire away from him and the squirrel caught it. The squirrel put the fire on his back, and it burned his back so bad that his tail curled up, and that is why squirrels have curled tails to this day.

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Although, they have similarity, the two stories has major differences also. First, both author differs the way they introduce and develop their lead characters to the reader. Second, they also differ in perspective from which their stories are being told. Third, they differs on the choice of settings and how it impact to the stories.

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There many simarlarites of the two stories of Master Cat and Coyote Steal Fire. The first simalarites of the stories is that they both had achived their goals. in they had to overcome obstical to get fire from the Thunder god and to make the miller son wealthy. All tricksters had to overcome a king. They both had to beat someone or something to get what they wanted.

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Some of the similarities of these stories is they all include magic and animals in the three stories The buffalo and the corn,The first false face and The Coyote are that they all have a magic and in The buffalo and the corn there is the magic buffalo god and that's not true but depends on your religious belief and in The coyote the animals can talk and in reality they can't talk at all. In The first false face their is no such thing as magical medicine when you can touch someone and heal them in an instant. The difference of the three stories is the first false face had been different because of how the medicine god had used his power for medicine and to do good but as the other story The coyote the coyote was being very greedy to the fox because he wanted to eat only him when there was many of animals in the forest to eat but he wanted to eat the fox and he was being very greedy. In the buffalo and the corn they worship a god and this god had been a buffalo

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Both the gods found love in some type of way but there were more differences than similarities. Coyote has many myths where he tricks the women and rapes them in some type of way. Wether its changing himself into a reed and entering between a women legs, changing into a salmon, having sex with his own daughters or when pleasuring himself with his wife genitals, Coyotes ways of love were all vile in some type of way in the myths. Coyote, in most of his myths, does whatever he wants, making them more horrifying and gruesome than romanic. Lots of his myths involved rape.

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“The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster”-- these Faust legends tell stories of ordinary men with thirsts for wealth and luck only in exchange for their very souls. Both were written in different time periods, where certain events and happenings influenced each of the stories and their conflicts. Washington Irving wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker” during a time of economic boom (1824). Stephen Vincent Benet wrote “The Devil and Daniel Webster” during a time of economic depression (1937). Despite the stories’ titles, both have different resolutions, depictions of the devil, and saving graces in the end.

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Even though both of these stories include the theme of reaching for something you don’t quite have may be in place in totally different texts that use their imagery in different ways, you can still find similar themes in both pieces of

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