"How Mosquitoes Came To Be": The Giant Lives On
Every time I read the Tlingit Legend, "How Mosquitoes Came To Be," there
are certain questions that come to mind about where the legend came from and who
wrote it. The legend was first published in 1883 and later found by Richard
Erdoes, who included it in one of his publications, American Indian Myths and
Legends. Why is the human race so selfish to think we can be the hunter and not
the hunted. Although giants could be a dominant presence in our lives, humans
prove that they will not be over-taken.
Each time I read the Tlingit legend, a new question would arise in my
mind as to how this legend came to be and particularly, who wrote it? The first
question I thought of was, is he ...
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question I asked myself is, if the giant was stabbed by the human and
"The monster screamed and fell down dead."(12), why did the giant still speak?
I know this is a legend or maybe just a fictionous story, but if the giant is
also a spirit then that would be helpful when reading the legend. I will
analyze these questions in hopes of understanding the problems with humans and
giants, which I might add is still being dealt with today with mosquitoes
everywhere.
My first question, if this giant was the only one on the planet, seemed
answered toward the end of the story with the introduction of the giant's son.
When the human threatened the life of the boy giant as he asked where the heart
of his father was, why didn't he kill the boy anyway? As we all know, a boy
will eventually become a person, and the boy is in fact a giant, therefore by
killing the giant by stabbing him in the left heel, the human simply forgot the
son. There are a lot of parts in this legend that are ...
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as his ashes were being thrown into the wind? If the giant was in fact
burnt to ashes how could he possibly laugh and talk to the human. My last
argument is how the ending was abruptly cut short and how it left the reader
hanging without knowing what happened to the giant's son. Also, if there is a
boy giant, what about the mother giant? I often questioned the credibility of
this legend and the author, but that is something that has to be considered when
reading "How Mosquitoes Came To Be."
I did a little research about this legend, curious about who wrote it
and when exactly it was written. According to the paragraph at the top of page
11 from the legend, the essay was first ...
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