Journal Entry 9: Analyze a Folk Tale

   In the story “Coyote Kills the Giant” the Coyote saw a lot of starving people and people are starving because they are all in the stomach of a giant. People are sick everywhere, starve to death, not many people have the strength to walk around. This “village” is trap inside a giant, no one ever walks out of the giant’s mouth. Then Coyote is smart enough to cut off meat from the giant to feed the starving people and kill the giant while keeping everyone alive.

      This story tries to explain why people in the same village all gone sick together and why they all get well later. I think it is also related to why the plants don’t grow- giant eats them all- because it mention of starving many times in the story.

       The famous story of Yi tries to explain why there is only one sun. In the dark times, there are ten suns on the sky, people’s life are tough and hardly any plans grow. Yi who is one of the gods was send by the head of gods to save lives on Earth. Yi took 9 arrows and a bow, he shoot down 9 of the suns and leave one on the sky to keep life cycle going.