LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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balance in nature
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the conflict between good and evil
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primordial sacrifice
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the origin of evil
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Detailed explanation-1: -These two brothers, as they grew up, represented two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these the right and the wrong. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the upright man and the devious man, the right and the left. The twins had creative powers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The conflict is between chaos and peace in the underworld, which is represented by the left handed (chaos) and the right handed (peace) twins that balance each other out.
Detailed explanation-3: -Without knowing it, the right and left-handed twins built balance into the world. The plant-eating animals created by the right-handed twin balanced out the meat-eating animals created by the left-handed twin. And so the world thrived, and this was good.
Detailed explanation-4: -The World on a Turtle’s Back is a Iroquois myth about the creation of earth. This belief is related to the biblical belief about creation. Both portray a story of a woman wanting to enjoy the forbidden fruit. After they eat of this forbidden fruit, good and evil is created.