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


Answer: A

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