Summary Of A Columbus Story By Thomas King

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Thomas King’s “A Coyote Columbus Story” mainly talks about how the red Indians were taken from their own land without their approval. This reminds me of an incident which occurred when I used to play cricket with my friends at our Neighborhood cricket pitch.
Just like Coyote, some of my friends also used to make their own rules to benefit themselves whenever we used to play cricket. Whenever it was a wicket, they used to prove somehow that it’s not a wicket if it was favoring them. If it was not, then they proof and give severeal why its not a wicket. I am a pretty much good and honest player. I did not like it much. But I used consider them as they were just my friends. One day I had to leave the squad because of my studies . They thought

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