LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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He gets left behind when the monster’s mouth closes.
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He is flattened after being pulled through the monster’s mouth.
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He develops a taste for blood after feasting on the monster’s blood.
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He is forever marked on his back by the shape of the monster’s teeth.
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He is grateful to Coyote and so agrees never to suck the blood of coyotes.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Coyote came across Titmouse who warned him about the Earth Monster up North. They all made it out of the Earth Monster but a tiny creature got stuck between its teeth. It was wood tick, Coyote pulled and pulled and got the tick out but he became flat.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-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).
Detailed explanation-5: -In “Coyote Finishes His Work", what is promised for the future? That all people, living and dead, will be reunited someday.