LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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that it will easily defeat him
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that it is unable to eat dead trees
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that it will already have been defeated
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that he will be able to run faster than it
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that he will be able to see it before it swallows him
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Detailed explanation-1: -This story tells how Coyote made the different people, including the Nez Perce, and how certain animals came to look as they do today. Without Coyote’s cleverness in outwitting the monster, the people and animals today would still be imprisoned in the Monster’s belly.
Detailed explanation-2: -Newberry Library: Lewis and Clark Exhibit. The Nez Perces trace their origins to a struggle between Coyote and a monster. Discovering that the monster had eaten all the people, Coyote tricked the creature into eating him. Once inside, he first cut out the monster’s heart, and then cut up its body.
Detailed explanation-3: -In “Coyote Finishes His Work", what is promised for the future? That all people, living and dead, will be reunited someday.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Coyote is a trickster character, mischievous, but not evil in the conventional sense of the word. This character is a great representation of how humans can perform acts of good but are not perfect, as the Coyote would sometimes “go too far with some trick and get someone killed.” (Lopez 22).