Comparing How Stories Came To Earth And Master Cat

A trickster story “The great Spirit Names the Animal People” written in 1933 since the time of the bible. These trickster tales involve animals to show the powerful moral showing the value of life. The author unsuccessfully expresses the story of being grateful of what life brings you.

“Fool, I will now take you to the sky-god.” Anansi the spider in the story of “How Stories Came to Earth”, while he was capturing the python for the sky-god. Anansi the spider was trying to obtain the stories from the sky-god. In order for him to receive the stories Anansi had to capture four elusive creatures. After reading the two trickster tales, “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat”, there are many similarities and differences in the two tales.

The theme the two stories share is about growing up. In the story "Brothers are the Same" Temas had to attempt to slay a lion to prove to the Masai

Linda Seger's hero myth from her publication "Creating the Myth" is very thorough in the steps involved in creating a hero of a story. All ten steps are very common to a typical hero story. However, there are some gaps in her theory. An example of a story that does not fit Seger's theory is the Disney version of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. This popular cultural phenomenon has within it an atypical hero, one who pokes holes in Seger's hero myth theory. This atypical hero, simply named Beast, does not fit all ten of the steps in a typical hero story.

In the trickster tale “Coyote Steals Fire” and “MasterCat” the similarities they shared were they all had to accomplish their goals. In “Coyote Steals Fire” his goal was to beat Thunder god in a gambling game for fire. In “Master Cat” the cat wanted to steal the king’s wealth from him to help Miller’s son to be wealthy or look wealthy. “Coyote Steals Fire” was a coyote that wanted fire. “Master Cat” was a cat who wanted to be like no other cat he wanted wealth. “Coyote Steals Fire” uses anthropomorphism case he talks, walks, dresses himself, and gambles. “Master Cat” he walks on hind legs, talks, and he’s cunning. “Coyote Steals

As Scott Peek once said, “Share our similarities, celebrate our differences”. Both “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and the“Grandmother Spider Steals the Fire” are different but embrace the differences to display a similar story. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a story about how a selfish woman takes the bark off a tree and falls into the world below, through the help of many animals she needs to find a way back or her life will be no more. The “Grandmother Spider Steals the Fire” is a story about how the animals in the east need to find someone that will keep them alive, but the most unlikely hero will be their only chance to save the animal race. The two stories despite the differences, show strong similarities through the relationship between animals and humans, the relationship between humans and spirits, and a shared prevalent theme.

Genesis is the book of creation. It tells how everything and everyone came to be. In Genesis there are two different creation stories. Based off of my knowledge in chapter one, it starts by God creating everything, from the Earth to humans; man and woman. In the second story, it talks about how God created Eve from the rib of Adam. So basically how woman came from man.

There are many similarities in theses two trickster tales “Coyote Steals Fire” and “Master Cat”. The first similarity in these two stories are the main characters are both animals. A coyote and also a cat in these two stories. Another one is they all achieved their goals. The coyote got his fire that he wanted and the Cat got the Miller son and himself wealth.

In the legend “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” has

Steven Hawley examines how the writings and characters of Native American Trickster stories have had the ability to transcend across the confines of space and time while still maintaining their origin. In the first part of his article Hawley discusses how the complex character of the trickster and speculation over the original intention of his/her/its meaning can continue to be interpreted by modern readers and the literary critics of today. The second part

This, in turn, messes up history and time. “Killing one butterfly couldn’t be that important! Could it?” Eckels says after finding the dead butterfly on his shoe. In “Being Prey”, Plumwood finds herself drifting towards a crocodile and attempts to avoid it. “Although I was paddling to miss the crocodile, our paths were strangely convergent,” Plumwood says after getting attacked by the crocodile. This shows that these two stories share a similar theme.

Within the two trickster tales of “Master Cat” and “How Stories Came to Earth” there are multiple similarities. One of the Similarities in these trickster tales are that they both have anthropomorphism which, is when animals or gods are given human characteristics. An example of this in “Master Cat” is that the cat is able to walk and also talk. In “How Stories Came to Earth” is when the spider built traps to catch different creatures.

For example in “How Stories Came to Earth,” Anansi the spider and his wife both came up with plans and ideas to capture each animal. In “Master Cat,” he came up with ideas to trick the king into believing that Maquis was royal. The next similarity is that in both stories they used anthropomorphism. In the two stories the main characters were animals that were given human traits. For example in “How Stories Came to Earth,” Anansi the spider talked and had a wife who came up with the ideas of capturing the creatures.

Fairy tales make an important part of cultural prophecy, because they contain wisdom which is passed from parents to their children. They contain basic moral and ethical guidelines for children. Images and symbols used in fairy tales can help to judge about cultural, ethical, social and moral values popular in the contemporary society. Changes and similarities, which can be found in the popular fairy tale Cinderella by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, version of 1812 and the Disney version of Cinderella (2015), can help to realize the changes in cultures and historical epochs.

Each creation story highlights the most important aspects of the cultures that wrote them. Not only do they show the values of the people, but they can give us an insight into how these cultures might have been. Comparing the Atra-hasis, Rig Veda, Genesis, Yijing, and Popol Vuh has uncovered many distinct themes when focusing on the time and place the creation story occurred. Patterns found in creation stories from different parts of the world show how similar human beings are.