Master Cat Summary

Even tho Coyote in one tale contrasts Coyote's character from the other they both did well people. Coyote from "Coyote and the Buffalo", got out of dieing by offering Buffalo Bull new horns. Buffalo accepted, so it was a win-win situaton for Coyote. In the other tale, Coyote helped find Coyote's wife by decieving the water maidens, and getting information before killing them. This helped regain Fox's wife's love. The coyote in these tales had diiferent mentalities from one another, one being an idiot and one being smart.

don't have the much in common than you think. Both of the main characters in the stories went through a forest alone. They both were brave especially when Goldilocks went into the bears house. And when Red Riding Hood went through the forest knowing that there was a wolf in there with her.They are both girls and they both have a joyful mood in most of the story.

The next comparison between two stories is that of Norse mythology and Greek mythology. Both stories have very similar ideas and ways of telling their stories of how their world came into being. Norse has their giants, who gave birth to the original three gods that created Midgard. The Greeks have the Titans who bore the Greek gods who overthrew them as well to control the Earth. Both myths contain the presence of creatures in their stories, beasts who helped shape their respective worlds to move the culture’s creation stories further along. Creatures within these worlds would be the dwarves, the serpent Nidhogg, and demons of Norse myth and the Cyclopes, the furies, and Typhon of Greek origin Furthermore, the children of some of these creatures were divines, who ended up overthrowing their elders to lead the creation of their own worlds, to rule over their own creations as well. And speaking of the world, both myths have multiple layers to their

The other two tales being analyzed are The Algonquin Cinderella and Tam and Cam. These tales have more differences than similarities. Their similarity is within the magic. The magic is based off of the ideals of the time. In The Algonquin Cinderella, the magical aspect about it is her wonderment and innocence. In Tam and Cam it is within her religion, Buddhism. They are similar because they are social strengths based on the time and culture.

There are many different versions of the classic story, Cinderella. Grimm’s version was just as wonderful, but had more twisted moments than Disney’s story. Both stories are about a girl who overcomes the cruelty of her evil stepmother and stepsisters and ends up living happily ever after. Although, there are many differences, there are three that stand out. The three main differences are, the father died in disney's version but did not die in Gimms version, there was no fairy godmother in Grimm's version but there was in Disney's, and in the original version the stepsisters cut their heels and toes off so it would fit in the slipper but in the Disney version they did not.

For example, in the first tale, Anansi and the Sky God have a deal that Anansi must complete to get the stories and Anansi completes the task truthfully. In the other story, Coyote makes a deal with Thunder, but he cheats to win and Thunder still tries to kill Coyote, causing trouble. In one story, the goal is reached truthfully, and in the other, it is reached with lies and trickery. Next, in “How Stories Came to Earth”, the main character is a spider, who spins his webs of stories to the people so they can have the stories he obtained. In “Coyote Steals Fire”, the main character is a Coyote who fights the God, Thunder, so the animals can have fire. These stories go about giving their prizes to society in different ways, Anansi being the nonviolent way, and Coyote being the violent way. Finally, “How Stories Came to Earth”, is of African origin, while “Coyote Steals Fire”, is of Native American origin. This make both the stories different because the origins of the stories tell them differently than each other. Both these trickster tales have things that are different about each other that make them

The central focus of this unit is to identify the elements of stories and how their themes may relate to each other in a variety of ways. Students will be guided in a variety of comparison and contrasting activities in order to gain understanding of main ideas, characters, and cultural themes across similar fairy tales from different cultures. This unit focuses on three different versions of Cinderella from different cultures. I chose to focus on the common elements of the fairy tales and the cultural differences because this was something the students were struggling with previously.

Everyone loves a good fairytale, and nothing is quite as magical and heartwarming as a Disney fairytale. The themes of love, comedy, and morality deem them as more than just little kids' stories, but suitable and entertaining tales for the entire family. This is known by a majority of the stories' readers. However, what one may not be so familiar with is the origin of these tales. Where did the stories of Cinderella, Ariel, and Rapunzel come from? The Disney writers certainly did not create them themselves. The differences in the originals will shock anyone familiar with Disney. And what about Snow White? There are differences between the original Brothers Grimm version of the ebony-haired, white-skinned princess and the Disney movie, believe it or not. Some major differences between both versions are the multiple ways the evil queen tries murdering her stepdaughter, the cause of Snow White's revival, as well as how the evil queen died. Why the story was altered is obvious:

The first difference between the Perrault’s and the Lee’s version of Cinderella is that the mother was dead when the story begins but in the Lee version, the mother was alive at the beginning of the story. The story starts at once upon a time in the Perrault’s version, but the Lee’s version started the story off as 200 hundred years ago. Another difference is that the stepmother was friendly and nice in the lee version of Cinderella but in the Perrault version, the stepmother was cruel and wicked. In the Perrault version, the step sisters had a strong temper like their mother’s and wasn’t as beautiful as Cinderella but in the Lee’s Cinderella story, the stepsisters were extremely nice and sweet. The Protagonist Disposition in the Perrault version was very kind and sweet, and even to her stepsisters but in the lee’s version, the Protagonist Disposition is evil and rude. While getting ready for the ball in the Perrault version, the Cinderella is helped by a fairy godmother that was sent to her and in the Lee’s version, Cinderella was helped by the Satanas. Cinderella forgives her stepsisters and marries them off to wealthy noblemen in the Perrault version but in the Lee’s version, Cinderella sent them to get attacked by the villains who eventually took over the city. The last difference between Perrault’s and Lee’s version of Cinderella, is that the Cinderella shoes were glass in Perrault’s story but in Lee’s story, Cinderella shoes were glass slippers, but they could change shape and size, but the shoes could only fit on her.

The trickster archetype is used in stories of various cultures from European to North American. With each story the trickster varies depending on the norms of the society the story originated from. In most trickster stories, the trickster and cultural hero are combined. The trickster can take any shape and is almost limitless in its abilities. They often go around the ordinary actions to prove a point or reach there goal. There are many different characteristics to the trickster archetype, they can be magical or break ordinary limits effortlessly, illogical, cleaver even in foolish manner, and have benign intentions, just to name a few however there are many more. In the Koasati trickster tale “The Bungling Host” has some of the more common traits such as causing unintentional harm, foolish, posses magic, and more common in NAtive American stories, the characters have definite shapes as animals. The less common ones this story possess is a creation story and death of the trickster. The Koasati Rabbit fits the trickster archetype because he is foolish, breaks the rules of nature, and the story involves silliness.

The Native American Trickster Tales entertain the reader or listener; however, they also teach valuable lessons to those who read or listen to them as well. As Felix White Sr. says, “The story character, he does so many unthought-of things in there that it causes the listener to start thinking, ‘Why does he do that?’ It’s a process of making somebody exercise his mind to think” (100-101). So the reason the Trickster does all of the crazy things he does is to help the reader or listener to think about what is happening and ask “why?”. With this process, the reader or listener can learn a new lesson with each new story. Like all literature these stories are up to the reader or listeners interpretation; however, because of the enjoyment they bring people are more apt to read or listen more closely and pull every meaning they can from every story.

The first difference in “Coyote Steals Fire” There was shape shifting. Coyote took off his fur and acted like somebody else. In the other story there was no shape shifting at all. Next in how stories came to earth the spider has a wife and women were viewed equal. Coyote didn't have any action with a female the women in this story weren't as equal.

Also, in “Coyote Steals Fire”, Coyote takes the fire from Thunder to give all over the world. This act helps the people and animals of the world who need fire for light, to keep warm, and to cook food. Lastly, in “Master Cat, or Puss in Boots”, the cat tricks the king into believing the Marquis de Carabas is very wealthy and has power. This helped the Marquis de Carabas become held in high esteem by the king, so much so that

These are just two examples out of many. The versions of fairy tales by Grimm and Disney are always similar in nature and moral. The differences in the details of the story range from minute to highly significant. The punishments placed upon the villains are always

In the trickster tales “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” many examples of similarities are shown. Both stories first similarity is anthropomorphism, which is known as giving human-like characteristics to a animal. Cat, wears clothes containing boots and a pouch like a person. Anansi the spider, had a wife for