World On The Turtle's Back

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The two stories I am comparing are “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and ‘Two Brothers and their Grandma.” “The World on the Turtles Back” was about the world being assembled on a turtles back. The other one was about an island being organized on the turtle’s back to have enough room for all the other animals and the woman. Both stories are similar, but they are also divergent.
“The World on the Turtle’s Back” was about a pregnant woman who tumbled down a hole and was caught by some birds who set her on the turtles back. The muskrat got dirt so they could make a world on its back and then the woman had twins. One was left-handed and one was right-handed. They created all the things in the earth, but they despised each other. The right-handed brother was the positive, truthful one and the left-handed brother was the corrupt one. As they dueled, the left-handed brother told the truth and the right handed brother didn’t and “Lefty” died. When “Righty” went home to …show more content…

The women in both stories had twins and they hated each other. The brothers in both stories also created animals and other things in their world. They are also different in some ways. In one story the turtle had the world on its back and in the other it was an island. In the first story, the woman that fell down the hole had twins and in the second the woman who fell down the hole had a daughter who then had twins. In the first story the muskrat retrieved the dirt for the world and in the second a toad got the dirt. They are also different because the good brother won the fight in the first one and the evil brother won in the second. The comparisons between these two stories are important. They are similar in a lot of ways, but one minute thing can change the whole story. When the good brother won in the first story the world turned out good, but when the evil brother won, the world was

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