Comparing 'Master Cat And How Stories Came To Earth'

Domesticated cats are currently spread wide and far across the world, posing as the cute creatures we know them as today, but how did they get there? What exactly did they domesticate from, and in what ways were they transported around the world? In her article, “DNA Tells Tale of How Cats Conquered the World,” Tina Hesman Saey examines and analyzes these questions, using the research and findings from Eva-Maria Geigl, Thierry Grange, and Carlos Driscoll.

Although the stories’ main components mirror each other, they still differentiate. For example, in “The Devil and Tom Walker,” everyone believes Tom has made a deal with the devil, whereas in “Young Goodman Brown,” the author questions the actuality

The theme the two stories share is about growing up. In the story "Brothers are the Same" Temas had to attempt to slay a lion to prove to the Masai

The trickster archetype is used in stories of various cultures from European to North American. With each story the trickster varies depending on the norms of the society the story originated from. In most trickster stories, the trickster and cultural hero are combined. The trickster can take any shape and is almost limitless in its abilities. They often go around the ordinary actions to prove a point or reach there goal. There are many different characteristics to the trickster archetype, they can be magical or break ordinary limits effortlessly, illogical, cleaver even in foolish manner, and have benign intentions, just to name a few however there are many more. In the Koasati trickster tale “The Bungling Host” has some of the more common traits such as causing unintentional harm, foolish, posses magic, and more common in NAtive American stories, the characters have definite shapes as animals. The less common ones this story possess is a creation story and death of the trickster. The Koasati Rabbit fits the trickster archetype because he is foolish, breaks the rules of nature, and the story involves silliness.

Knowing that the trickster characters are common in stories these character are almost always similar in one or more ways. The stories “How Stories Came to Earth”, “Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat” have one of the way they are in common and that is the the supernatural or god like beings involved with the tricksters. In “How Stories Came to Earth” The god involved is Nayme the sky god which is the most powerful being in the story. It is show as Nayme resides in the highest place and is only willing to give stories for Anansi if he gathers four animals. In similarity the god in “Coyote Steals Fire” is Thunder. Thunder is the most powerful of the animals as shown by living in the highest mountain and he protects and keeps the stone containing

There are many similarities between these two trickster tales. Anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, is the first of many similarities between the two stories. Anansi the spider is married and Coyote cheated at dice. Both animals also speak. The protagonists are animals, a coyote and a spider.

Compare and Contrast Essay Have you ever seen a mouse talk? This essay is gonna be about two different articles along with how much they are alike and how much they aren't alike. In the legend “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” Mouse makes a boat out of a pumpkin and invites Cat to go with him to get food. In the legend “Cat and Rat: The Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” Mouse and Cat got invited to a race and Cat got angry at Mouse because he won.

The Native American Trickster Tales entertain the reader or listener; however, they also teach valuable lessons to those who read or listen to them as well. As Felix White Sr. says, “The story character, he does so many unthought-of things in there that it causes the listener to start thinking, ‘Why does he do that?’ It’s a process of making somebody exercise his mind to think” (100-101). So the reason the Trickster does all of the crazy things he does is to help the reader or listener to think about what is happening and ask “why?”. With this process, the reader or listener can learn a new lesson with each new story. Like all literature these stories are up to the reader or listeners interpretation; however, because of the enjoyment they bring people are more apt to read or listen more closely and pull every meaning they can from every story.

Both stories feature a very intelligent person trying to play God through the creation of life. Both of the creatures were subsequently mistreated by their maker and society as a whole. In both stories, the audience is left feeling greater sympathy for the monster than for the creator.

These two stories were also very different, they were written in different views. The second story was written in first person, it told a story about a past experience. The first story was very general, it related to many women readers,

Trickster tales enact in a tremendous amount of the history in most cultures, Africa being the most relevant. Therefore the trickster tales passed down in varied cultures throughout generations have much value. Some of the supplementary famous tales being How Stories came to Earth, Coyote Steals Fire, and Master Cat. Throughout this time analyzing these stories, it has helped define a better judgement of what a trickster in a trickster tale actually represents. Nevertheless, in the three tales all of the protagonists are non-human, but present themselves as being capable of human abilities and characteristics. By way of example a trait represented in copious amounts of trickster tales is that of Gods, Spirits, and the Supernatural. An

To start off with one major difference is the point of view of the stories. In “The Lottery” the point of view is omniscient (all-knowing). “Charles” point of view is 1st person because it is told by the wife. To add to the three major differences is the genres. The genre of “The Lottery” is horror because of what happens at the end. The genre of “Charles” is comical because of the stuff that “Charles” does. To sum up the differences between the stories is the tone. The tone of “Charles” is comical. In “The Lottery” the tone of the story was serious which is different from

Each of the given stories have supernatural elements. Whether it is a god, spirit, or just a supernatural, a trickster is guaranteed to come in contact with one of them. In the story, “How Stories Came to Earth,” the reader learns about the sky god who possesses all of the stories. The sky god is explained as powerful and having a loud voice which shows supernatural characteristics and that he has power over Anansi, the main character, in this passage. Furthermore, in the story, “Coyote Steals Fire”, readers learned about the antagonist, Thunder. In the beginning of the story it is said, “Thunder was a fearful being.” This quote represents how Thunder had power over the other animals and that is why no one chose to challenge him. Lastly, in the end of the story “Master Cat or Puss in Boots” readers get to learn about the Ogre. When Master cat, the trickster, comes in contact with the ogre because he wants his castle, he knows that he can shape shift.

“How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” have many similarities such as using anthropomorphism, all protagonists were animals, all achieved their goals using their cunning/ clever minds. In both trickster tales the protagonists were animals. The protagonist in “How Stories Came to Earth” the protagonist was a spider named Anansi and a cat was the protagonist in “Master Cat”. “How Stories Came to Earth” and “Master Cat” have anthropomorphism with the animals. The animals could talk and do other human characteristics.

The First story is lighter and fantastical. Pi is accompanied by the tiger, the orangutan, the zebra and the Hyena on the life boat