Summary Of Gods Spirits And The Cat By Nyame

Gods, spirits, and the supernatural is a characteristic shown by anansi the spider in how stories came down to earth, coyote in coyote steals fire, and master cat in puss in boots. In how stories came down to earth, the sky god Nyame is an actual god who is the only being in the world who knows the stories of the world. Any regular person wouldn't know every story in the world. In coyote steals fire, the character Thunder hones the power of fire, no one else in the whole world can have fire. So because of this coyote goes up to the mountain that thunder lives on and gambles with him to try and obtain fire. Coyote receives the fire by cheating and breaks off a piece of it for every tribe on earth. In Puss and boots the trickster that is master cat tricks the king and becomes a great lord, stated by the story. Now this is supernatural because a cat can’t become a great leader in real life. Gods, spirits, and the supernatural are characteristics shown by Nyame the sky god, thunder, and master cat.

In how stories came down to earth, anansi the spider climbs up his web to the kingdom of the sky god. How is a spider going to crawl up a web to a kingdom in the sky. Also the story compares anansi to an old man. In the story coyote steals fire the story tells how thunder and coyote gamble for the very valuable fire. This is Anthropomorphism because a coyote and thunder are not going to be gambling in real life anytime soon. In puss and boots the story tells about how the cat listened to a speech and acted as if he did not hear it. So first off how is a cat going to listen to a speech in the first place let alone act as if he did not hear it. Those are three of the many examples found in puss in boots, how stories came down to earth, and coyote steals