Lodge-boy and Thrown away

Kyle Wilson

English

8/27/12

Myth

                                                           

Lodge-boy and Thrown away

            This myth explain many things about the Indians that teal its story. The tribe who tells the myth holds children highly because of all of the things that the boys do that they are told not to do. “Another day the father said to his sons, You may play where ever you wish, but do not go near the man with the fiery moccasins “ the boys go to the man and wait till he is asleep. The steel the moccasins and then stomp on the man until he burns to death. The boys do this with all of the people and laces the are told not to go and always kill the person or animal that will harm them.

            The myth is magical because Thrown away is able to change from beaver to a boy by smelling the smoke that his father and brother give him. “ The father of the murdered woman returned home.”  It is also magical because the mom of the two boys comes back to life after the murderer had killed her. It is also magical because the boys are not harmed by any of the harmful things they are told by their dad.

             The boys are considered heroes by Campbell’s 12-step theory. The boys fallow the steps when the go out on their journeys to the places that there dad has told them not to go. “ They jumped on him, and burned him then took the moccasins home. “ The boys always returned with the elixir depending on where they went it was always different.