Buffalo Gals

Buffalo Gals challenged me to think beyond what I was reading. I had to think about who coyote was and what she represented. Humans and animals are very alike in many ways. This story showed that animals have lives and families just like humans do. It showed how they helped and loved each other. They have emotions and struggles like humans have. The story really showed these similarities.

By the end of the story, the little girl was able to see the animal world and the human world as the same. She learned to give respect to living things. Unfortunately, she was also able to see the evil in the world when coyote was killed. She didn’t want to go back to world she came from where humans were all that mattered. She had been enlightened and inspired by her new life. The animals had taken her in and became her friends and family. She had suffered so much already, why would they make her go back?

I think the story was very good although a little strange. It was meant to make us think and to look at the situation with an open mind. Talking, fully dressed animals don’t really exist but the point was to show the reader a new world. The child was able to accept, fit in, and eventually love this world. It showed that if you are open-minded, new worlds may be possible to find.