Temptations and desires serve as a stark example in both stories of how flawed humans can be and how easily they’re controlled by their desires. In “The World of the Turtle's Back” the woman’s desires for a bark of the great tree leads to her downfall and removal from the Sky-World. In the Bible, Eve tricks Adam into eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil leads the both them to exile from the Garden of Eden: “When the women saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom” (New International Version 1:6). Acting out on her temptation gets Eve and Adam punished severely. This punishment teaches that acting out on dark desire it not acceptable. These temptations display
