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  1. Oct 2025
    1. He always looked over his shoulder, afraid that someone was pursuing him.

      I think everyone, including myself, can relate to this statement. Definitely not to the same extent as Coyote, who is fearing dangerous consequences, maybe even death. However, I think everyone has been in a scenario where they wanted to help out, everyone told them no, and then they went through with it anyway. After actually doing what was advised against, everyone gets angry, and you fear punishment when really you had no ill intent to begin with.

    2. The spirit in the whirlwind passed on by. Coyote thus introduced the idea of permanent death and people from that time on grieved about the dead and were unhappy.

      Addressing question three, which I will be answering, is the emotions this text makes me feel. This idea makes me feel annoyed with the people who have become unhappy. At first, they complained that there was overcrowding, and now they complain about the solution. Assuming that temporary death means more people were born in addition to those who came back to life, it seems selfish that people would rather keep coming back to life rather than letting new people who haven't experienced life experience it to the fullest with less overcrowding. Their feeling sad for those who have passed on, I have no problem with, but the overall discontent this text expresses annoys me with its demonstration of humans constantly not being satisfied.

    3. people ought to die forever because there was not enough food or room for everyone to live forever.

      This piece of the text confused me because it seemed to contradict itself. Coyote is recommending that people die forever because temporary death leads to overcrowding, thus creating a lack of food. My question is, why is food needed if death is temporary? If death is a meaningless concept, it just means temporarily being a spirit. Is there really a problem with having too little food?