ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The world the twins made was a balanced and orderly world, and this was good. The plant-eating animals created by the right-handed twin would eat up all the vegetations if the number was not kept down by the meat-eating animals which the left-handed twin created.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The right handed twin was the smart, responsible, and sensible twin who always tried to do the right thing whereas the left handed twin was the a devious lied who always did things based off his own guidelines. The Iroquois honored both twins so that they would balance each other out.

Detailed explanation-4: -The twins, Sapling and Flint, represent the two sides of being: the straight mind, and the crooked mind. Each has to add his own creations into the mix, in order for a balanced Earth to be created. The twins symbolize balance and the duality of nature.