emergence

Bailee McLachlan

H English III

Coach Morrell

The Emergence

In The Emergence, each world had a creature or being that has a different color to go along with their names which we learned in class to be the North, South, East, and West. In the first world or the Black World “Most of the inhabitants were wingless insects and crawling creatures accustomed to living in holes in the ground, among them red ants, yellow beetles, black beetles, and white locusts” (p. 499). In the second world or the Blue World there were the White Crane, Blue Heron, Yellow Loon, and Black Loon that swooped down upon the insects shortly after they entered the Blue World. In the third world or the Yellow World there were four gods of different colors; “One autumn four gods – White Body, Blue Body, Yellow Body, and Black Body – appeared before First People” (p. 499). And finally they reached the fourth world or the Black and White World, but there were no animals or beings of different colors but the people were given Coyote from the North Wind “who thinks only of being lazy and playing tricks” (p. 501). But they were also given Badger from the South Wind “who has the industry and determination the Coyote lacks” (p. 501). In the story the Coyote challenges the Water Monster to a game of chance and Coyote wins only by cheating, which in return gets the Water Monsters coat and other belongings but the Water Monster didn’t know that its two babies were in the coat and Coyote just didn’t speak about it so when the Water Monster found out about this he wanted to destroy the land and everyone on it because he was so mad that Coyote had his babies so he went to the bottom of the sea and opened up the dams which created a large flood. Once the world started to flood the faster creatures and people climbed to the mountain tops where they all helped each other survive by bringing important things to stay alive like seeds they could plant that would create food and they planted bamboo seed which in five days became a large hollowed out tree that the people carved a door into and they all lived in that tree until they figured out how to get to a fifth world where they discovered why the Water Monster was upset and gave the Water Monster its babies back.

Don’t take what isn’t yours and if you end up with something on accident give it back.