I believe there is no such thing as a stupid question; what seems very simple is often profound as well. I used to teach a bridging course in ESL. The next step for my students was to take high school English, and so I was teaching literature. At the beginning of this course of studies, we examined myths from various cultures. I used to show a National Film Board film called “Salmon People” which told a story of the Tsimshian people of the west coast of Canada. In this story,