ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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: -West wind What does the sharp and blunt arrows represent? twins The left handed twin is born out of the armpit, the right handed twin blames the left handed twin for the mother’s death, and the mother is buried. From the mothers head grows corn, beans, and squash These are called the 3 sisters by the Iroquois.

Detailed explanation-3: -What might the twin’ mother symbolize? The twin mother might symbolize mother nature because when she was buried, from her head grw corn, beans and squash and from her heart grew tobacco.

Detailed explanation-4: -How do the twins bring balance and order to the world? The left twin made an animal for every animal that the right twin made to eat that animal, therefor to keep balance.