ENG215H1 Lecture 2: Week 2- Coyote Tricks Owl and The One about Coyote Going West.docx
Document Summary
Oral aspect to story: meant to be read aloud with a rhythm, not linear, contains lots of repetition for oral recitation. Makes sure listener gets it by emphasizing important parts. Coyote has to lie to defeat owl: fragmented and incomplete/incorrect grammar, deliberate so story delivered with certain tone, audience is kids, know this at end, trying to put kids to sleep. Intimacy: the storyteller making sure the audience understands, says you know. Power: owl has power, indicating by his size, coyote"s power is his verbal structure of his life, not physical. Has power to create ppl: power of additional storytelling, will be told later to kids. Parents invited to use story: flexibility on gender, shapeshifiting. Creation story: creation of owl who sleeps in tree, awake at night. The one about coyote going west- thomas king. Story about creation: diff from western understanding (christian) Replaces jeudo-christian concern of good and evil with native concerns of balance and harmony.
