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Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night Study Guide

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by Charles de Lint
About 11 pages (3,203 words)
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Social Sensitivity

"Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night" is based on Native American traditions and involves sexuality. Coyote insists, "It's this whole flute-player business . . . It's riddled with sexual innuendo, don't you see?

[Kokopelli is] a fertility symbol now, very mythopoetic and all, but it wasn't always that way," later adding that "they didn't call him Koke the Poke for nothing." Sophie asks, "What are you [Coyote] saying? That all I have to do is have sex here, and I get to leave?" She does not like the idea at all. Yet, Coyote often nudges her about having sex.

There is nothing in all this that most young adults have not heard about already, and Sophie's determination to be the one who chooses the occasions when (and with.....

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Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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