English 1A03- A Coyote Columbus Story PDF

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English Short Genres- A Coyote Columbus Story -The Lone Ranger; an old American television show -Began with the Lone Ranger who was injured in a battle, another ranger comes back and nurses him back to health; then the lone ranger puts on this mask and goes around the country saving people/things -Lone Ranger is supposed to look like a hero -Why would native artists decide they want to take pictures with the mask on? –they wanted to look like a super hero (switch of roles; play a role they would not normally play) -Mask is normally a symbol of oppression, racism, etc. -“I’m aware of what you’ve done with this mask before and I’m going to give it some new meaning” A Coyote Columbus  Understand the power of telling & retelling stories  Recognize alternate ways of knowing, learning, evaluating and telling the truth A Story about Story-Telling Why do we tell stories? -Stories are windows to other perspectives -Stories often have a moral point to them -Keeps a nation or families historical traditions/values alive through story -Reinterpret ideas -A little bit of the story-teller becomes apparent in the story, through their telling -Different versions of stories Rewritten Story -There is always an original, then a new rewritten story -You need to read the original story before reading the rewritten version -Rewritten version will always point back to the original Inhabit the Story -Relationship where one story inhabits another -Inhabit is to live inside something -Stories are like houses; how they have a structure, living inside it and changing it, making the house yours, etc. -Narrative of Christopher Columbus’ story -Columbus has inhabited the story  Make your mark and make it yours: possession is 9/10ths of the law  Like the mask, a symbol of oppression that can be worn/inhabited/lived in, in order to shift perspective and power A Coyote Columbus Story -made up of a framed story; an outside story, something happens and the narrative tells the story and an interior story; a story a character tells -Narrator is going to tell Coyote the interior story about old Coyote -Both stories featuring a coyote figure

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-Frame story; there are houses, characters who drink tea and tell stories; however does not represent our lives -Story about a world that we don’t live in -Coyote is a trickster figure that normally comes from legends -Interior Story -Old Coyote makes up all the rules -Power of re-telling stories: let go of our perspective and see things through new eyes -If you change stories or retell them, we make room for new perspectives, more opinions, different ways of telling the truth, stories have to change to ensure that people are thinking and thinking about different perspectives of the story -Chronological time does not seem to exist in this story -Things of the future in this story that don’t belong  Where does knowledge come from (in the story)? -Coyote gets her knowledge of the history from a big, red history book -However the narrator learns from other people (oral versions though) -Narrator says the Coyote’s story of the Columbus story is bent/slanted -According to the narrator, you cannot trust written culture- only oral stories -King has written a story that sounds like an oral story -To call something a coyote story means somebody has played with the story, cannot fully be trusted- as stated by the narrator; bits of truth embedded -Each version of the story is tricky with the truth -“Bent Stories” (293) -“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”- Emily Dickenson...