Coyote Is A Trickster

Othering: As Shown in Thomas King’s “Coyote and the Enemy Alien” and the Canadian Government

In Mexican culture we deal with a lot of superstition and folklore, but one of the most famous to go around Mexico, Central central America, and South america is El chupacabra.

I have decided to do my thrid quarter project on “El Chupacabra”. El Chupacabra is a myth or legend centered from Puerto Rico. I have grown much interest in this folktale. The mysterious and puzzling creature brings great interest to me. I’m eager to learn more about the Chupacabra. So with interest I believe this topic would be the correct choice for me.

A door to the beginning of her outcome is all that divides Connie in, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” from Arnold Friend, the devilish predator. Symbolism takes a big part in this story that gives a deeper meaning to Connie’s choices that ultimately extent to giving herself to Arnold. The author, Joyce Carol Oates in the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” represents Arnold Friend as the real world by being challenging and malicious, and Connie as the innocent world by being defenseless and naive.

“Coyote and the Enemy Aliens” is a satirical commentary that effectively expounds on the intense objectification and dehumanization of Japanese Canadians during the colonial Canadian era. By depicting the grotesque living conditions, the Japanese were subjected to, King is able to critique the racist perspectives of the Canadian society. King condemns the actions of colonial white-men, depicting them as creatures engulfed in moral blindness that strive to fabricate an ideal white world. Moreover, King vividly portrays the idea of social dynamics, expounding on the helplessness of Citizens against dominant political powers. King also introduces an idea of conformity, showcasing how citizens gradually adapt to

The Misfit is a symbol of the anti-Christ and is portrayed as such through the inversion of divine characteristics. As pointed by Marion Montgomery, “the devil she presents in her fiction is the devil Christ came to oppose, made articulate in a world largely given to him.” In the Bible, Jesus is a surrounded by little children, whom he loves. The Misfit is bother by little children, even stating, "Watch them children, Bobby Lee," he said. "You know they make me nervous" (O’Connor 642). Michael O. Bellamy emphasizes that this “set of inversion is consistent with the Misfit’s entire personality” (200). When the Misfit is called “a different breed of dog,” this shows the inversion of the word God itself, and “demonology is based on inverting the sacred” (O’Connor 643, Bellamy 200). Moreover, “the Misfit is a self-imposed title,” which is representative of “the figure of that ultimate misfit of Christian orthodoxy, Satan” (Montgomery 186). The emphasis on the Misfit’s alienation from society is show by the symbolism of the true misfit in Christianity. The rejection of Satan by God can be reversed to say that Satan rejects God, and thus the Misfit reject religion.

The trickster character appears in many cultural mythologies across the world and across the span of time. Despite the individual personalities of a trickster being unique across time and cultures there are unchanging characteristics belonging only to tricksters, which still appear in our modern day media. A wonderful example of a modern day trickster, who has lived within our society for the past 85 years, would be Bugs Bunny. Bugs has undergone a few minor changes within his personality and outward appearance throughout his life, yet he is recognizable to the current three generations living within our society today. Bugs is a fearless, creative, and sassy individual who is able to break barriers, not only between generations but also

Throughout the document, Mather is constantly depicting the Devil and spirits as very real, tangible enemies (e.g. descriptions of “invisible hands” and unexplained supernatural happenings), that were slowly infecting the Christian

Aliens as a pseudoscience at times can be somewhat controversial because the belief in aliens is mainly interpreted in two ways. One belief is the idea that aliens exist somewhere in the universe but have not necessarily visited earth. The second main interpretation is the belief that aliens visited earth before and/or currently visiting earth in UFO’s. This belief is more pseudoscientific than the first because, the odds of the mere existence of aliens is a matter of probability. But, the second is more difficult to explain and often relies on some pseudoscientific explanations, reasoning errors, and visual illusions. The belief in UFO and aliens visiting earth is a lot more common than most people realize as Rice ( 2003) points out in his study. In a survey of about 1,000 people in the U.S, 35% of people stated they believed extraterrestrials have visited Earth at some point in the past while, 40% did not

Recently, I read a story of “A Coyote Columbus Story” by King. The story included history, the discovery of island by Columbus. However, this was written in different point of view, not similar to general history books. He was described as an invader from the other island, rather than a hero who explored the new land. From First nation people’s eyes, Columbus must have been a foreigner who stole everything from their land. His characteristic was told to be rude and disrespectful. Why does it contain different story comparing history books? Why is Columbus described as an invader? I realized story depended on who is writing the story. I started thinking about how history books were written, and furthermore, considered why novels were written.

In 2014, ten thousands of unaccompanied men, women, and children primarily from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala traveled to the United States seeking asylum. This mass immigration was characterized by the United States government as a humanitarian crisis and gained widespread media and congressional attention around the United States. Large majority of this attention was speculation about the cause of increase in immigration and plausible U.S. responses. The United States government along with the Department of Homeland Security created specific strategies to control immigration along the “Northern Triangle” and throughout Mexico. Yet, the assumption that such strategies would effectively deter Central Americans from trying to cross the

Helpfulness of the trickster is when the trickster may enjoy turning order into chaos, but they generally do so while trying to help others. For example, the spider wanted to know the “great” stories. To find out the stories there was a price for them. He tricked other characters to find out the stories. Once he found out the stories he started to spread them.

Will’s cowboy persona is attributed to much of his success on the stage. Viewers were unfamiliar with his Indian background, and that was uncommon in the vaudeville show business of the time. The people were interested in the western life, and Wild West shows, such as Texas Jack’s Wild West show helped stir the interest in the American Wild West. At this point in time, there were also several paintings and books that used the west as their inspiration and setting. The Virginian, was one such book that was immensely popular during the time, and it was dedicated to President Theodore Roosevelt, which made it even more desirable to the public. Will served as a real-life representation of the west, which was circulating the public in the east.

At 1:31, the Roadrunner leaned back and paused and then pecked at the seeds. The Roadrunner converted it’s potential energy into kinetic energy by when the roadrunner paused and then pecked at the seeds. At 3:30, the instant road rolls off the cliff and stops. The instant road’s kinetic energy turned into potential energy when the instant road was rolling off the cliff and came to a stop.

Firstly, the two short trickster tales have quite a lot of things in common. To start off, both of the tricksters was in an animal form. In “How Stories Came to Earth” the trickster was a spider with the face