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The coyote woman is extremely old—she appears in a story about Six-Great, and Ellie and her parents meet her in the novel’s present. It’s implied that in between, the coyote woman and other beings like her went into hiding, in part because of the threat that settlements like Willowbee pose to magical beings.
The Coyote Woman Quotes in Elatsoe
The Elatsoe quotes below are all either spoken by The Coyote Woman or refer to The Coyote Woman . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 34 Quotes
“I guess I should start from the beginning,” she said. “When I was a kid, my parents took me to the pound. That’s where I met a dog...”
She’d say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he’d follow the words home.
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Ellie is in the car heading back to Lenore’s house from Willowbee, and her parents agreed to pick up a hitchhiking coyote woman. Ellie is telling the coyote woman the story of what happened last night, starting from what she insists is the beginning: adopting Kirby more than a decade ago. In this exchange, Ellie shows how much she’s learned over the course of the novel. She’s learned the importance of stories: the story she’s going to tell the coyote woman will be entertaining, but it will also help the woman understand what happened last night. And ideally, Ellie believes, Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officii
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The Coyote Woman Character Timeline in Elatsoe
The timeline below shows where the character The Coyote Woman appears in Elatsoe. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 9
...her husband went to the river to water the horses, and there, they met a coyote woman , who asked to ride a horse. The coyote woman revealed that her father was...
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Vivian continues, describing how the coyote woman rode home with Six-Great and her husband, spent a few weeks with Six-Great’s pack of...
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Chapter 34
...there’s a coyote. Ellie shouts for Dad to stop and reverse to pick up the coyote woman .
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Reverting to her human form, the coyote woman approaches the car and says she just wants a ride for kicks—it feels safer now....
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...a mistake in the end: taking a “risk for love” is a good choice. The coyote woman agrees, and then she asks what happened last night. Ellie starts her story from the...
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