Living like Native Americans In the story “The World on the Turtle’s Back”‚ there live a people that act and behave very similar to Native Americans. In what is defined as the Sky-World‚ human like characters have their way of living. There is man and woman‚ they eat and drink‚ and they grow plants and they produce offspring. All of these characteristics relate to the Native Americans and their way of living. But can these few attributes give us enough information to answer the questions‚ who and
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An Analysis of the Twin Brothers’ Motives in “The World on the Turtle’s Back” In “The World on the Turtle’s Back”‚ the right-handed twin is portrayed as the benevolent “Master of Life” (200) and the left-handed twin is seen as the devious one. In my opinion‚ the left-handed twin is not the antagonist of the story. The hatred towards the left-handed twin initiated when he killed his mother at birth. “He said he saw light in another direction‚ and said he would be born that way” (89). His
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In William Bradford’s Chronicle “Of Plymouth Plantation” (1606-1646) and Iroquois’ Creation Myth “The World on the Turtle’s Back” (2012)‚ they showed that it takes guts and the confidence to become an explorer of the unknown. Can curiosity lead you to your thinking of death but changes the thinking of being the most amazing thing happened to you in life? Even with the risks of starvation‚ dehydration‚ disease‚ and possibly death‚ would you still go and explore the unknown? An explorer seeks the unknown
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Turtles Hatching The poem Mark O’Connor wrote "Turtles Hatching" at a time in his life when was closely studying nature. In this poem Mark O’Connor closely observes turtles hatching and contemplates the ritual that turtles share with the beach. This poem also has close connotations to life cycle and family. Mark O’Connor begins the poem with one single line which emphasis the information that he is giving the reader. The continuation of this line from the rest of the poem to the next without
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be an endangered species. Luckily‚ this isn’t the case for us‚ but for endangered sea turtles it is a reality. Some of the older turtles‚ which are 140 to 160 year old‚ can lay hundreds of eggs every time they go ashore. However‚ only one or two of these eggs survive. Some turtles have been known to live more than 250 years‚ but because of poachers few actually survive that long. The cycle of life for the turtle is hard‚ and the beginning is a very rare thing to witness. I had the amazing opportunity
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Compare&Contrast The World on Turtle’s back was about a female and male which lived in a sky world. In this sky world was a big tree and on this tree grew crops for the two to eat every year. A day came when the two were curious and started to dig a hole next to the tree. It wasn’t even 10sec. and they broke through the world‚ it spooked the male so he stepped back. The Grandma got down and stuck her head through the hole and then‚ she fell falling from what seemed to be the sky. Then the story about
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the story “ The World On A Turtle’s Back” it talked about how when the girl fell through the hole in the ground in the Sky World she tried grabbing the edge to stop her from falling but she couldn’t hang on and Fell through the hole.. “ However‚ between her fingers there clung bits of things that were growing on the floor of the Sky World and bits of the root tips of the great tree” (26). This textual evidence talks about how the world was created and what helped create the world and all of the things
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people who or what they are‚ why they are in a particular place‚ and how they should continue to live in that particular place. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” reminds the people of those three things. In the creation story “The World on the Turtle’s Back”‚ the people are told who and what they are. As the story tells‚ “Far above this unpeopled world‚ there was a sky-world. Here lived the gods who were like people- like Iroquois (Iroquois 38).” The people are told that they resemble the form of the gods
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Iroquois and their “legend” The World on the Turtle’s Back Iroquois tell their legend in The World on the Turtle’s Back of how the earth was created and how balance in the world resides. Iroquois are one of many Native American tribes in which still live in the United States today; in fact‚ there are more than 50‚000 Iroquois living in the United States today. The term Iroquois refers to six separate Native American groups: the Senela‚ Cayuga‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Mohawk‚ and Tuscarora. The Great
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They symbols that contributes to the theme of “The World on a Turtle’s Back” (an Iroquois legend) include the turtle‚ the great tree‚ and the twins. These symbols contributes to the theme because they all represent one form or another in the story of creation. According to the myth the culture values all that is living‚ and due to the similarities to the story of creation in Christianity they do believe that only one person created the world and all we know about it. However‚ it was two twins‚ a
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