Alan Dundes Thinks That Native American Folktales Have Characteristic Structures

question 19

Multiple Choice

Alan Dundes thinks that Native American folktales have characteristic structures, including __________.

• A) movement away from disequilibrium in society, expressing the need to rectify conditions in society causing disharmony
• B) movement toward disequilibrium in order to express the randomness of the world
• C) the need to have happy endings in myths
• D) the need to show a character's moral development through the course of the story

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