Analysis, Week 8, de Angulo

       For week 8, I have decided to do a close reading post on the writing called de Angulo. I am going to discuss the very first paragraph of this story. The first paragraph talks about coyotes, which are mentioned throughout the whole story. These coyotes are not actual coyotes though, as they're described as people with two different personalities. This paragraph also explained the importance of understanding how these coyotes work in Indian psychology. This paragraph was interesting to me but throughout the story I could see that a lot of it related back to this paragraph.

       This paragraph could be difficult to understand since the author is using animal names to describe humans, but I broke it down and it was easier to understand after. One of the metaphors he uses is when he uses coyote as someone's name. Even though this person isn't really a coyote, that is what they are referred to and looked at as. I think this paragraph was important because it informed us early of the coyotes meaning and the roll they had back then. They were looked at as "good" and "evil" and that is easy to see in the story.

       The text hasn't changed much for me since I broke it down, but I was able to relate and compare it to our world today. I am aware that people in Mexico are still called coyotes today, and they have to do with the boarder patrol in Mexico. I don't know that much about them, but I do know that both the coyote in this story and the coyote name in Mexico has similar meaning. Understanding from the beginning of the story about what a coyote was is important, and I think it was a good job by the author to start the story off by informing us about it.

       This paragraph was not really a break in action or resolution, but more of a heads up to the readers to help understand what was to come in the rest of the story. This information doesn't refer back to anything, but hints the readers as to whats to come later in the story. This is important to our understanding of the characters because if you cant understand what a coyote is and the role they had back then, the whole story would be difficult to understand. I cannot think of any other moments in the text like this one. Overall, the meaning of this paragraph was interesting, and it was cool to relate some of it back to our world today.