The giant lives on. Speaks of the Tlingit Legend, "How Mosquitoes Came To Be"

                                            The Giant Lives On

        Every time I strike the Tlingit Legend, How Mosquitoes Came To Be, on that point are certain questions that come to sound judgement about where the figment came from and who wrote it. The legend was first published in 1883 and later erect by Richard Erdoes, who included it in one of his publications, American Indian Myths and Legends. Why is the human race so selfish to mean we can be the hunter and not the hunted. Although monstrositys could be a dominant presence in our lives, humans prove that they testament 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 the only giant on the major planet? This was answered for me with the introduction of the giants son. As I read on, something seemed puzzling to me, the incident that wherefore humans are so selfish to bet they are better than giants, let alone anything else. For instance, why is it okeh for humans to kill a chicken, stick it and eat it, and a giant is bad to kill humans, eat their flesh, and drink their blood(11)? Later in the story we learn that the giant also liked to roast the hearts of humans.



Another puzzling question I asked myself is, if the giant was stabbed by the human and The monster screamed and

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fell down dead.(12), why did the giant still speak? I know this is a legend or maybe just a fictionous story, exclusively if the giant is also a spirit then that would be helpful when reading the...

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