Week 11 Reading Notes Part B: The Coyote and the Snake

A coyote is walking through a field in a straight line when he comes to a snake that tells him to stop and go around him so that he won't step on him.  They get into an argument and the snake tells him that if he steps on him he will kill him.  The coyote does it anyways and he gets bit but doesn't feel it.  After mocking the snake and calling him a liar because he hadn't died yet, he comes upon a lake and looks in the water and sees that he is fat which is surprising to him.  He then realizes he is really tired and falls asleep and never wakes up.  The snake wasn't lying.

Snake biting Coyote sourced via Flickr

Once again, this story really interested me because of its style.  I imagine stories like these being ones that are told to children to teach them lessons about life.  They are really simple and have a very specific point to them.  I think I will try making a new story by writing something that is very geared toward teaching a child a lesson.  And also make something more simple than I usually do because my stories are typically very complex.

Bibliography:

Great Plains: Coyote and Snake by Katharine Berry Judson