Compare And Contrast Cain And Abel In The Genesis

In the Bible, there are two sons, Cain and Abel, who are very different. For example, Cain worked the ground, while Abel took care of the sheep. Adam and Eve were their parents and Abel seemed to be favored by them and by the Lord. Cain, who was the older of the two, became very jealous and angry enough that he killed Abel. The Lord punished him, for this was the first murder ever committed in history. It was also the first human death.

In the Iroquois story, there are also two sons, the left-handed and right-handed twins. They were born from their mother, who was arguably murdered by the left-handed twin when he refused to be born the normal way. Therefore, they were raised by their grandmother who favored the left-handed twin. The

twins were very different and also tended to fight. For instance, they twins had special abilities that let them create animals. The right-handed twin would create peaceful animals while the left-handed twin would create animals to kill them. The right-handed twin was the “good” twin while the left-handed twin was the “bad” twin. They fought for a long time before the right-handed twin eventually killed his brother. The grandmother was furious, for he had killed her favorite grandchild, which made the right-handed twin so angry that he killed her as well. These were the first murders.
In both stories the brothers are so different that one brother ends up killing the favored son/grandson. However, in the Iroquois story, there are multiple murders and they were brought up by a grandmother, not two parents.