The World On The Turtle's Back Analysis

In the story, The World on the Turtle's Back, we learn that in the beginning a woman was pregnant with child and she sent her husband to work trying to find strange new delicacies for her to try. Later on, he encounters a sacred tree known as the "Great Tree". Fast forward into the story, the woman wanted to eat bark from the sacred tree and told her husband, but he knew it was wrong, so she decided to take matters into her own hands. As she dug a hole she fell through it and was flying downwards a beautiful ocean. The animals decide to save her, thus saving her and the chance of a new world still existed. The woman had received help and acquired dirt from the bottom of the ocean that was the key to a new world and she was said to be carried and took care of on a turtle's back. The woman …show more content…
The twins began to quarrel and fight inside her stomach and this continued for the majority of the story. The conflict between the twins still continued and for some reason the grandmother favored the left-handed twin. The right-handed twin was the truthful twin who always did the right thing. The left-handed twin was the complete opposite. In the story, the relationship between the grandmother and the left-handed twin wasn't described that much in detail. They both were just pretty much on the same side and didn't care at all about the twins mother's death. In a way they are pretty similar because neither one of them have no heart for anything. For example, the grandmother in the beginning when she was a mother didn't care about the sacred tree and started to break the rule and took a huge risk. She never thought about the outcome and went straight for it. I feel like as if the left-handed twin had the same personality as the grandmother and didn't think before doing anything. The relationship between both of them is that both of them have a selfish attitude towards anything that appears in front of