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English, 27.05.2021 16:10 guccim5971

Read the passages: from "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back"

"I, too, am powerful, and I am young! I do not fear you. When I touch the earth, it grows soft and warm. Every living thing stirs in its sleep,—birds and bees, flowers and trees, animals and men. When I speak, the sleeping sun awakes. See! Already he begins to send down his arrows. Hasten! that they may not find you, on the trail to the North Sky."

from "How the World Was Made"

Even some of the trees went to sleep. Only the cedar, the pine, the spruce, the holly, and the laurel were awake all seven nights. Therefore they are always green. They are also sacred trees. But to the other trees it was said, “Because you did not stay awake, therefore you shall lose your hair every winter.”

Which best uses textual evidence to compare and contrast these two myths?

In "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back," the change in seasons is shown as an easy transfer of power. In "How the World Was Made," the change in seasons is shown as a natural, peaceful transition.

Both myths show the changes in seasons as a natural, peaceful transition.

In "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back," the change in seasons is shown as a violent battle. In "How the World Was Made," the change in seasons is shown as a natural, peaceful transition.

Both myths show the change in seasons as a violent battle.

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