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    Trickster tales have been an important part of the Native American culture for hundreds of years. Trickster tales are an oral storytelling tradition and are continuously passed down from generation to generation of Native American Indians. American Indians enjoy listening and telling trickster tales because it is a fun and interesting way to tell a story with a valuable lesson. In many tales, the trickster has a name associated with an animal, and a majority of listeners assume they are animals;

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    Who is the trickster figure in Native American culture? What roles do the tricksters play? Drawing on the readings we have done so far for this course, explore what types of language or symbols the trickster is associated with and their relation to cultural values. In your answer, be sure to consider how the trickster figure relates to native American oral culture (the role of ‘stories’ for example). It sounds simple enough to consider the role of the trickster in Native American culture, but examination

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    Many trickster tales follow a similar outline and contain similar elements. In the three trickster tales, ¨How Stories Came to Earth¨, ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨, and ¨Master Cat, or Puss in Boots¨, it contains the trickster tale elements of the helpfulness of the trickster, the cleverness of the trickster, and the use of anthropomorphism. There are several instances in each of the three stories in which the trickster in each of them are helpful in some way. In “How Stories Came to Earth”, Anansi got the

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    Trickster Tale Imagine the world without stories or a world without fire. The world would be a completely different place without them. In the folk tales “How stories came to Earth” and “Coyote Steals Fire” tell you how creatures were able to get what they desire by tricking and fooling other animals and gods. After reading these stories they proved to be similar, but mainly different. Both of these stories show to be similar in a few ways. First, they are similar because in both “How Stories

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    In this paper, I will compare two of my favorite stories from Trickster: Waynaboozhoo and the Geese and How Alligator Got His Brown, Scaly Skin. These two stood out from the others as strong tales with clear and powerful messages. After I compare the two plots, I will discuss the relevant parts of the respective cultures from which these stories originated. One of three reasons I like these two stories is that they are both very concise, direct, and to the point. Let’s use How Alligator Got His

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    itself is a trickster and doesn’t hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.” In a folktale, the trickster fools the reader’s mind by disguising itself as something we would never suspect. The trickster’s aspiration is to lie and trick us from its true form. Tricksters around the world resemble each other with contradictory characteristics, different roles, and polar motives. Tricksters portray

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    Trickster In The Odyssey

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    Cyclops Polyphemus by tying himself to the underside of the sheep. Although for every reader “The Odyssey” can be interpreted different ways, some might see Odysseus as a man whore who is easily tricked by the goddesses while others might see him as a trickster who gets out of multiple sticky situations.

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    pleasure. He is one of the cleverest beings you will ever know but also the most stupid. The being I am referring to is the trickster. Out of the many different cultural tricksters, the Navajo Coyote is one that fits a majority of the stereotypes associated with a trickster. I will be showing this by examining Coyote myths from the Navajo and other similar tribes. The trickster is a being that holds many negative qualities and a few positive ones. The negative qualities include: being overall mischievous

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    Coyote Steals Fire Essay

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    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. Even though he tricked others to get the stories he still shared them. In the “Coyote Steals Fire”, Coyote was not afraid of Thunder. This

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    shall take his life...” Thunder exclaims this about Coyote in the tale “Coyote Steals Fire”. He says this after Coyote had tricked him out of the great prize of fire. Trickster tales are stories about a certain animal or person that uses trickery against others to get his way. There are many differences in the stories such as the trickster tales “Coyote Steals Fire” and “How Stories Came to Earth” To start, the differences between the the stories are as said before. The characters are different such

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