ENG215H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Disjointed, Canadian Tire, Free Verse
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Alright , see are pauses: check if listener understands/ appreciate. Coyote exerts power over owl by words (verbal trickery) can"t overcome owl through physical strength. I eat people too , he tell em a lie construction of a reality through words, like storytelling. Possibility that stories can shape reality parents tell owl story to children power. Owl had power, indicated by his size. Coyote"s power is his verbal structure of his life, not physical power comes from language and words has power to create people. Power of additional storytelling, will be told later to kids parents invited to use story. Flexibility of gender, shapeshifting creation story: creation of who sleeps in tree, awake at night every culture hears nature differently, eg. Coyote is a trickster that comes to discipline, shifts gender and shape. Tradition celebrates fluidity between male and female; fusion; integration. Shape shifting, gender integration (transformation, instability) reevaluate certain truths as being open to interpretation; not fixed.
