Coyote Steals Fire Analysis

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Trickster tales “If you win, you can kill me. If I win, you have to give me fire.” Coyote says in “Coyote Steals Fire” when they were describing the rules of the game of dice. In this story Coyote is trying to steal fire from the Thunder god. When Coyote cheats in a game of dice the Thunder god tries to kill him. There are many similarities and differences between the trickster tales of “How Stories Came to Earth” and Coyote Steals Fire”. There are many similarities between the stories “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire”. The first similarity is both stories had goals like in “How Stories Came to Earth,” Anansi the spider was attempting to get stories from the Sky God and in “Coyote Steals Fire,” Coyote attempts to gain