In The World on the Turtle’s Back the grandmother prefers the left-handed twin because she does not follow the rules, she did not like her daughter, and she was "left-handed".
At the beginning of the story we are told that a sky woman is pregnant and she wants her husband to bring her food. One day she wants to eat from the Great Tree in the center of the sky world, which was forbidden. Right there we already see that the woman is not someone that follows the rules, just like her left-handed grandson. She is shown as someone that could corrupt someone else and make them break the rules, like she did with her husband. Maybe that is why the sky people did not want to rescue her. They had seen what she had done and knew what she could do. It could be said that she is the root of evil.
It is never stated in the story whether the mother hated or loved her daugther, but I say that she did indeed hate her daughter. The most obvious example of this is when the left-handed twin is born and she does not complain that he killed her …show more content…
By this I mean that she was evil. Through out the story you can see that she is actually evil. At the start of the story she breaks the rule of the Great Tree. This was seen as evil by the people of the sky world and why they do not try to rescue her. Later her request of dirt exhausted the animals and almost kills the muskrat. She does not even thank him for the dirt. Then she makes the dirt grow as big as she wants without considerating how the turtle feels. Worst of all, she hated her daughter and did not care when she died. This proves that the woman was evil and she is the root of evil. She is the reason the left-handed twin is evil. She sees the left-handed twin as a younger masculine version of herself and that is why she prefers him over the right-handed twin. This explains why the right-handed twin also killed her. She was as evil as the left-handed
At the beginning of the story we are told that a sky woman is pregnant and she wants her husband to bring her food. One day she wants to eat from the Great Tree in the center of the sky world, which was forbidden. Right there we already see that the woman is not someone that follows the rules, just like her left-handed grandson. She is shown as someone that could corrupt someone else and make them break the rules, like she did with her husband. Maybe that is why the sky people did not want to rescue her. They had seen what she had done and knew what she could do. It could be said that she is the root of evil.
It is never stated in the story whether the mother hated or loved her daugther, but I say that she did indeed hate her daughter. The most obvious example of this is when the left-handed twin is born and she does not complain that he killed her …show more content…
By this I mean that she was evil. Through out the story you can see that she is actually evil. At the start of the story she breaks the rule of the Great Tree. This was seen as evil by the people of the sky world and why they do not try to rescue her. Later her request of dirt exhausted the animals and almost kills the muskrat. She does not even thank him for the dirt. Then she makes the dirt grow as big as she wants without considerating how the turtle feels. Worst of all, she hated her daughter and did not care when she died. This proves that the woman was evil and she is the root of evil. She is the reason the left-handed twin is evil. She sees the left-handed twin as a younger masculine version of herself and that is why she prefers him over the right-handed twin. This explains why the right-handed twin also killed her. She was as evil as the left-handed