Two Brothers and their Grandmother and The World on the Turtle’s Back bears several similarities and differences. A major comparison is both stories beginning with “Sky People”. In Two Brothers and their Grandmother, The sky was occupied with a tribe of humans. However, in The World on the Turtle’s Back the Sky World was inhabited by “people-like gods”. The story began with a husband and pregnant wife removing bark from a Great Tree and broke a hole through the ground. But, in Two Brothers and their Grandmother, the chief’s daughter fell ill and the people of the tribe dug a trench around a tall tree in hopes of curing her. This lead to the tree falling through and creating an abyss. Both stories included a female character falling through
the hole and being placed on a turtles back, which eventually forms an island. Additionally, in both stories the main female characters have daughters who are impregnated with twin boys by the West Wind. I believe the strong similarities and differences come from how large the Iroquois Nation is. The Iroquois Nation was comprised of five nations spreading across the current states of Pennsylvania and New York. Two Brothers and their Grandmother came from the Seneca people which were a part of the Iroquois Nation. These stories could of been created by the Iroquois Nation as a whole, and different changes could’ve been made by the different nations over time. Due to the vast area the Iroquois Nation covers, it allows for the story to slightly change from the original version.
The two stories "Brothers are the Same" by Beryl Markham and "Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing are both about growing up and entering adulthood. " Brothers are the Same" about a boy named Temas trying to prove he was tough and could be called an adult. In a similar situation in "Through the Tunnel" a young boy named Jerry is determined to go through an underwater tunnel that he saw some older French boys go through. He wants to accomplish this goal to prove to himself that he can do it. The two stories share a similar theme, but the authors perspective on the topic differs.
While reading different stories, you can find many similarities between the texts. For example, Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe are two stories that have many similarities. Throughout the story, the characters have many of the same traits. Similar events take place in the two stories. All these events lead both stories to a tragic ending. Stories can be similar in many ways. The characters, the setting, and the story line itself. Stories can also be very different. One may talk about an event that will break your heart, while another might bring a smile to your face. The two stories The Man to Send Rain Clouds and Old Man at the Temple have many similarities and differences in their settings due to the place, time, and culture.
The World on Turtle’s Back is a creation myth written by the Iroquois, a Native American Tribe. As I read this myth, I realized the many parallels to the Book of Genesis from the Bible. Upon further analysis, it is evident that The World on Turtle’s Back has a multifarious amount of similarities to the Book of Genesis. There are multiple parallels and similarities between the two myths, while there are some noticeable differences between the two that don’t necessarily match up.
Convention’s struggle against nature is one that has existed since the beginning of time. Whether it be through illnesses, facing the elements, or suppressing one’s natural tendencies and desires, man has always suffered greatly from challenging the ways of nature. Man himself is a natural creature; however, due to his own pride, he has been turned against nature, and towards the industrial habits of convention. In the three short stories “The Birth-Mark,” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and “The Open Boat,” the reader sees this theme of man’s failure to control nature, as well as the risks he takes in order to do so.
In the novel, Turtles All The Way Down by John Green there are two types of conflict: person vs. self, and person vs. person. Aza Holmes is the main character in the novel and she experiences conflict with herself everyday. She has high levels of anxiety and outbursts of overthinking which she calls a ‘thought spiral’. In the beginning of the book, Aza introduces her thought process. She hears her stomach making noise in the cafeteria and immediately thinks it’s “Clostridium difficile, which can be fatal” this line demonstrates how the slightest changes to her body send her down a never ending spiral of nerves (Green, p. 4). The thoughts alone aren’t what consume her daily life, ever since she was little she “pressed [her] right thumbnail into the finger pad of [her] middle finger, now there is this weird callus over [her] fingerprint” (Green, p. 5).
Centuries ago, two books were written with similar and different ideas. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Book of Job have different settings although they both discuss friendship, death and mortality, pain and suffering, and characters, but individually the book of Job examines where human beings stand in the world.
In the two short stories “Brothers are the Same” by Beryl Markham and “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing two main characters go head to head on quests or “rites of passage”. In “Brothers are the Same,” a young man named Temas in a tribe in Africa must hunt and kill a lion in order to become a man; along with Jerry, from “Through the Tunnel”, puts himself in a position of life or death in a tunnel under water. With that, both characters put themselves in difficult situations that include many differences among them. Each boy has to discover if his mental and physical power can do the tasks and complete each obstacle.
For the Native Americans to explain their existence, they created stories that described how things came to be. These stories are much like the ones that you would find in the Bible, and are very insightful in getting a better understanding of the Native Americans religious viewings. The Native Americans strongly believed in spirits and beings of another world. In the Iroquois Creation Story, these believes are strongly represented by telling the story of two brothers. This story is a representation of how the world was created. There is a good minded brother and a bad minded brother, which are not just brothers but twins. These unborn brothers and their mother were sent to the back of a turtle that in order to secure them from the dangers of the dark world she fell to. In a hurry to be born, the bad minded brother murders
Betrayal is being disloyal to others and even oneself, therefore betrayal can cause many emotional fallouts and baggage within relationships. In the story, The World on the Turtle's Back, betrayal is a huge factor in how the story plays out, as it is in the song The Letter by Kehlani, Genesis 4:1-16, and Matthew 26:14-16 . Three ways in which betrayal is portrayed in the story, the song, and the Bible is by the actions people take to one another, disconnections in relationships that lead to betrayal, and emotional baggage.
Shown In the story ‘’what we plant, we will eat’’ in which the older brother doesn’t honor his
Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptations take place continuously and even the smallest of changes can leave a significant impact. Examples can be seen within any plant or animal. One example would include sea turtles, specifically, the Loggerhead Turtles. These turtles are native to the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans as well as the Mediterranean Sea (Deurmit L 2007). They thrive in either temperate or tropical climates and can live in a myriad of biomes (Deurmit L 2007). These biomes include the pelagic, reef, coastal, and brackish water (Deurmit L 2007). Loggerhead turtles are omnivores and can eat anything from insects to aquatic crustaceans, to macro algae (Deurmit L 2007). According to Deurmit (2007) Caretta caretta is classified into Animalia Kingdom, Chordata Phylum, Vertebrata Subphylum, Reptilian Class, Testudines’ Order,
Adam and Eve of Genesis and Izanagi and sister Izanami of Shintoism provide examples of myths that share both a passive and active pair of people who eventually create the Earth's population. In any case, certain popular creation myths, some closely tied to prominent religions, share more common characteristics than others. An entire sub-study, called comparative mythology, gives insight into this subject. Through studies such as comparative mythology, researchers and philosophers have discovered hundreds of parallels between the myths that make up every culture, including their creation myths. As most are deeply rooted in religion, comparisons based on geographic area, themes, and similar story lines emerge as religions form and migrate.
Though the two Creation stories are supposedly intended to be connected - even interchangeable - the only similarity they share is the presence of the omnipotent God and His role in the creation of the earth. Where the first creation describes a detailed, six-day process in which God first delineates day and night, establishes the physical world, and then finally creates man, the second creation is a much simpler process, one almost contradictory to the first story's strict schedule.
During the two stories, the Judeo Christian story and the Iroquois story, they both talk about two different religions and how they see their religious leader and also how they think the world is made up of. The story’s explain how a woman has birth of two children. In the middle of the story both of the couples go to a tree and eat something and then they get punished for eating from the tree because God told them not to eat from it, also in both of the story’s there is one primary family member and or ancestor. Both of the story’s also talk about how the earth came together and how it was formed.
The world on the turtle’s back In the world on the turtle´s back the existence of good and evil is explained through a pair of twins. The right-handed twin is portrayed as good and the left-handed twin as evil. According to the myth humans were created by the right handed twin, but it is unknown if the left-handed twin helped create men. The most reasonable explanation for the creation of man is that right- handed twin created man on his own “And finally, the right-handed twin made man.”