From the second half of the Great Plains unit, the story that stuck out to me was the tale of the "Coyote and Snake." In this story, a coyote was walking along one day, and he was abruptly told to stop. He did not see anyone in his pathway, so he was initially confused by who had spoken to him. The coyote eventually found who was speaking him, and it turned out to be a snake. The snake told the coyote to go around him, but the coyote thought himself too good to be bothered. In result, he told the snake to get out of his way. The snake did not agree this was how things were supposed to go, so he warned the coyote that if he stepped over the snake, then he would kill him. The coyote decided he would take the chance, so he stepped right on over the snake. The snake bit him, and by the end of the story, the coyote was dead.
Why this story was different to me from the rest was because of its length. This week, I was wanting to focus on honing my skills of writing proficient and short stories. This story was another great example of how I can take important events in a story and relay them appropriately to a reader. Another useful part of this story was the exchange between the coyote and snake in dialogue. By creating dialogue between characters to tell the majority of the story, the reader gets to have more of a feeling of what the character's personality is like. We can tell from the characters' words and actions that each individual feels like they have the right to stay where they are, but in result, pride gets in the way. I like that the moral of this story was to check yourself if you are not in a humble mindset because that is ultimately what got the coyote killed.
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Image Information: Rattlesnake by Gary Stolz, Wikimedia
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