Summary.
- It is clear that Coyote and his daughter live in a home inside of a rural area, they have no food sotred away and must go out to hunt for food
- Coyote goes out to hunt and brings along his daughter, While pursuing food coyote is constantly on the lookout to come across danger or prey in the wilderness.
- Coyote's daughter is slower than Coyote, but she is able to keep up with him wile Coyote searches for food.
- They reach a lake to drink from, and from there begin to travel home empty handed. Coyote realizes that his family can not survive without food, and hits his daughter with a stick thus killing her.
- Coyote brings his daughter's corpse home, and removes her hair and cuts her up as to not alert his wife that they are eating their daughter.
- Coyote begins to cook his daughter, and soon after appears the ghost of the daughter appears before the old woman Coyote (presumably the mother)
- The mother figures out that this is the ghost of her daughter and that Coyote (her husband) is the culprit
- In what I presume to be a fit of rage and disillusion, old woman Coyote burns down the house that Coyote is cooking his daughter in, thus killing coyote.
Personal Thoughts
- Many important words within these poems are repeated three times (i.e. burn-burn-burned, jingle-ingle-ingle, twitch-twitch-twitched)
- I feel this is narrated this way possibly because there are three members of the family, and the actions of each impact the entire family
- This story is extremely blunt, and tells you straight up without warning when something bad happens, and I feel it helps this narrative style because it makes some of the actions feel more shocking.
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