lodge boy and thrown away

Bailee McLachlan

H English III

8/27/12

Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away

1.      What does this myth explain about the culture who tells it?

This myth shows that people shouldn’t underestimate the power or wise-ness of children.

 

2.      What fantastical elements are shown?

Fantastical parts of this myth are; when Lodge-Boy turns into a young boy, hours after he’s taken out of his mother’s stomach, when Lodge-Boy and his father capture Thrown-away and burn incense under his nose and he turns into a human, when the two boys brought their mother back to life, when the myth states that a man wears fiery moccasins, when a human lives deep in a lake, and when Thunder-Bird talks to the boys.

3.      Are the boys heroes?

I don’t think they are heroes because everything they were told not to do by their father, they went and did the opposite and just ended up killing the bad people. The only time they didn’t do the opposite was when they were asked by the Thunder-Bird to kill a great otter for him.