LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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To warn children about things that could hurt them
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To teach important lessons about how people should and shouldn’t behave
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To explain how various things around the earth were created
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To teach children how to play tricks on each other
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Detailed explanation-1: -They teach important human values such as determination in the face of hardship, persistence, kindness and right action. Stories are replete with lessons in how to behave in the social world (Bruner, 1986), though some, like certain trickster tales, invite the questioning of oppressive social mores and norms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tricksters are smart and they use their knowledge to play tricks or to try and bend the rules. Trickster tales are used to entertain and often to teach lessons about how to behave and treat other people. First Nations people have used trickster stories to teach their children for many years.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Moral of the Story. Often fables and trickster tales illustrate how a smaller or weaker animal uses cunning to outwit a stronger, more powerful animal.
Detailed explanation-4: -Trickster stories were important because they taught morale rules and boundaries. The purposes of the stories were to teach the young certain lessons about life and how they should act. The Great Spirit created the Sun and the Moon who were given the task of further creation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Three characteristics that are shown include anthropomorphism, negative qualities of the trickster, and helpfulness of the trickster, all in which will lead to the success of the trickster at the end of the tale. One technique commonly used in trickster tales is the use of anthropomorphism.