Coyote Steals Fire

“Coyote Steals Fire” also uses tricks to obtain the goal of the story, which in this case is fire. Primarily, Coyote tricks Thunder in their game of dice. Coyote makes a deal with Thunder that if he wins, then Thunder must hand over fire to the world. Cheating to win the game is no problem for Coyote because, “He is the master at cheating at all kinds of games”(Erdoes and Ortiz 45). Another tactic that Coyote uses to obtain his goals is hiding any evidence that can prove Coyote deserves to die. Although Coyote wins the game, “Thunder [knows] that Coyote ha[s] cheated but [can] not prove it”(Erdoes and Ortiz 46). This lack of evidence allows Coyote to obtain the fire because Thunder does not have a reason to stop him. The third trick Coyote uses on Thunder is hiding himself from Thunder when he wants to kill him. Knowing that Thunder wants him killed, Coyote sheds his skin, “...as if it were a blanket...” and changes his voice to
For example, Anansi is curious about the stories and wants them “...as many creatures ha[ve] before him”(Kaleki 40). Receiving the stories will allow all the creatures before Anansi to also have them in their possession at last. Also, there is evidence that a narrator is telling “How Stories Came to Earth.” It is evident through the use of “child” in the beginning and end of the text(Kaleki 40). Without Anansi, the narrator would not have been able to tell this story, or any. This represents that Anansi’s change benefits the distant future. Finally, Anansi's retrieval of stories impacts the world in its entirety. After the sky-god grants access of the stories to Anansi, he take them home and him and his wife, Aso learn them all. The narrator closes the story with, “Everywhere you look, they spin their webs for all to see”(Kaleki 42). Anansi bring about a beneficial change for all of society in “How Stories Came to