“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.” This quote, spoken by Benjamin Franklin, perfectly demonstrates the negativity associated with tricking someone. People often link tricking someone with something that is ultimately for unjust reasons that are too difficult to achieve through truthful actions, and that is how both people and characters in novels approach troublesome situations. Including the characters in the short stories, “How Stories Came to Earth,” told by Kaleki, “Coyote Steals Fire,” told by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz, and “Master Cat, or Puss in Boots,” by Charles Perrault, in which the main characters all use trickery in order to achieve their goal. Although all of
