Coyote Steals Fire, And Master Cat: Puss In Boots

Trickster Are Not All the Same! When one thinks of a trickster, a sly, sneaky, cowardice, and devilish figure comes to mind. The true definition of a trickster, though, is a mischievous and magical animal-human who can outwit their opponent. The trickster can often function as a hero, a creator, a fool, a destroyer, or a prankster. A wide variety of tricksters are exhibited throughout literature. Some tricksters are the same and some are very different. In the short stories “How Stories Came to Earth”, “Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat, or Puss in Boots” components of each trickster story like main purpose, trickster connotation, and motivation for tricking are comparable and contrastable between the three stories. In short story, “How Stories Came to Earth” by Kaleki, the main purpose for this text is to explain how phenomenon in nature happens. The occurrences in nature explained in this story are how stories have come down from the …show more content…
In this story a young man inherits only a cat because he is the third son of his father. He is angry for only inheriting a cat but is shown that through ingenuity and cunning the cat can be useful. This same lesson is taught to the audience as a moral. The author makes it very clear what the moral is and that there is one when he writes,” “However great the benefit/ of inheriting a tidbit/ handed down from father to son./ Young people with industry/Will prefer using ingenuity/even if the gains are hard-won”(Perrault 50) and titles this quote “moral”. The story’s whole plot is that the cat teaches the young man that it is virtuous to make use of what one has. In a separate analysis of this story it is written that “Perrault wrote fairy tales to amuse children and added morals at the end of them”(46). This quote directly proves that this story was given a main purpose of teaching and

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Coyote Steals Fire, And Master Cat: Puss In Boots

Coyote Steals Fire 'And Master Cat, Or Puss In Boots'