World On A Turtle's Back Analysis

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The World on a Turtle’s Back is an Iroquois creation story that presents the balance of “good” and “evil.” The story implies that there is a need for humans to maintain a balance between “good” and “evil”. An incident where a pregnant mother passes away during labor and an example based on the food chain show the reader how the balance between good and evil needs to be maintained. The story implies humans should maintain a balance between “good” and “evil”. In the story, the women who died during labor caused grief, this, however, brought corn, squash and beans. The grief brought on by the woman dying was a form of “evil” in the sense that it was an incident that took life. However, this negative event generated various plants that we
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