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Anansi and Olorun: Myths Explored

1) Olorun, the creator god, wanted to change the marshy earth into a place where living things could shelter. He asked the Great God for help creating creatures to live on the new earth. 2) Anansi the spider wanted to own all the world's stories. He tricked various animals like hornets and snakes by fooling them in order to get Nyame, the sky god, to give him all the stories. 3) The mood created by "Owner of the Sky" was generally positive as it depicted the determination of Olorun to improve the world, while the mood of "Anansi's Tales" was more negative because Anansi fooled and used animals selfishly

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Anansi and Olorun: Myths Explored

1) Olorun, the creator god, wanted to change the marshy earth into a place where living things could shelter. He asked the Great God for help creating creatures to live on the new earth. 2) Anansi the spider wanted to own all the world's stories. He tricked various animals like hornets and snakes by fooling them in order to get Nyame, the sky god, to give him all the stories. 3) The mood created by "Owner of the Sky" was generally positive as it depicted the determination of Olorun to improve the world, while the mood of "Anansi's Tales" was more negative because Anansi fooled and used animals selfishly

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  • Literary Elements of Myths and Tales
  • Character Analysis in Literary Works
  • Mood and Tone Analysis
  • Theme Discovery in Myths and Tales

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In
English

A. Work with your group to identify literary elements in the myth and the
legend you have read by completing the table and then discuss them with
your group.

Title of the Myth: Owner of the Sky: Olorun the Creator


Setting Earth
Characters Olorun, Great God, Chameleon
Summary of Plot The myth is about a god who wants
to change the world to be
something better.
Conflict The earth is a marshy place that
can’t be a shelter for living things,
so Olorun wants to change it.
Climax Olorun asks Great God a favor that
He will create the creatures and
Olorun will be the one who will
make them live.
Resolution Great God watched through
Olorun, but Olorun knew
everything. Great God fell asleep
Because of Olorun, so when he
woke up, all the creatures are
already alive.

Title of the Tales: Anansi’s Tales


Setting Forest
Characters Nyame, Kwaku Anansi
Summary of Plot It’s about a spider who wants to
own all the known stories in the
world.
Conflict The conflict on the story is how
Anansi will get the wills of Nyame.
Climax He solved the problem by fooling
hornets, Onini, and Osebo.
Resolution He collected all of the animals and
Nyame gave him all of the stories.

B. In the chart below, record details about a major character in each


folklore. Suppl adjectives that best describe the character. Then, give a
example from the story that illustrates or supports the descriptive
adjective.
“Owner of the Sky: Olorun the Creator”
Character Adjective Examples
Olorun great Olorun, owner of the
sky and being the
Highest Being.
Great God powerful He creates every being
Olorun asks.
Chameleon watcher He looks around the
surroundings and he
reports them to
Olorun.

“Anansi’s Tales”
Characters Adjective Examples
Kwaku Anansi trickster The hornets thanked
him and flew into the
gourd through the
small hole. When the
last of them entered,
Anansi plugged the
hole with the ball of
grass, saying “Oh yes,
but you are really
foolish people.
Nyame Powerful He is powerful god
who owns all the
stories that Anansi
wanted.
Mmoboro Foolish They are fooled by
Anansi because they
trusted easily on him.
Onini Long A long snake
Osebo Big A big leopard
C. If the tone is the author’s attitude, the mood is the reader’s response.
Identify the mood created by each tale, and provide examples that support
you analysis.

Tale Mood
Owner of the Sky: Olorun the I actually felt good by how
Creator determine Olorun was. He wants to
change earth into a better one. An
for Great God, I think he should be
contented on what he can do.
Anansi’s Tales Anansi’s a little selfish for me, he
wants to get all the stories, and by
that he used animals for it. He
fooled those animals just to get
what he wants.
D. Discover the theme for each tale. Remember, the theme is a moral or
message in the story. Write in complete sentences.

1. The theme for the story is to be contented on life. You don’t need to
get others work. Just be contented and do your own.

2. A particular event that led me to believe in the story is the way on how
they make humans. In the Bible, God created humans by dirt and the
story did the same way.
3. The theme for Anansi’s tales is you don’t need to fool anyone just to
get what you want. Making them trust you and fool them is not a good
thing.

4. That event is that Anansi desired something so he did everything to get


it.

5. The moral supports the theme by the lesson. It has something to do


with the theme.

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