Which sentence from  "the world on turtle's back"  best  illustrates why the story is considered a creation myth? the woman created a home for herself on this new earth and soon her daughter was born. she told them that if they could find some soil, she could plant the roots from the great tree that were still tangled in her hands. the woman placed the dirt on turtle’s back and performed a ritual to create the earth. she is called “our mother” and the people dance and sing to her to make the plants grow.

The woman placed the dirt on Turtle’s back and performed a ritual to create the earth.

Explanation:

A creation myth is a fictious narrative that attempts at explaining the origin of the world and how people started inhabiting it. Therefore, when the pregnant woman  placed the dirt on the Turtle's back, in fact, what she had done was to plant the tree seeds she held in her fingernails. As she had become pregnant, she was thrown into a well but she had managed to take hold of a tree beforinf falling. Yet, she fell down. She did not die because some birds and the turtle had cushioned her fall. Now, on the turtle's back she had been able to plant the seeds from the tree and after this action, she started dancing around the turtle. This  gave birth to the earth.

The sentence from "The World on Turtle's Back" which best illustrates why the story is considered a creation myth is the woman placed the dirt on Turtle’s back and performed a ritual to create the earth (C).

EXPLANATION  

The World on Turtle's Back is a creation of myth. The World on Turtle's Back tells how the world was created through a pregnant woman’s hand. The woman came from the land of the sky that fell into the ocean. She fell into the sea after taking a few roots of plants in the land of the sky and then fell into a hole and then into the ocean. She was helped by a bird and then brought to the back of a turtle.  

On the back of the turtle, she planted roots which she took from the sky and started growing plants from there one by one. The woman passed away after giving birth to her twin daughter. She passed away then became the mother of grains such as corn, wheat, and others. The two powerful twin daughters, they continue the process of making the earth. A daughter with a lefty hand contributes to bad things for the earth such as the creation of spikey plants, predatory animals and volcano mountains. While the daughter with the right hand creates good things, such as beautiful scenery, beaches, cute animals, and some sweet fruits.

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Keyword: The World on Turtle’s Back, Myth, literature.

Subject: English

Class: 10-12

Subchapter: Literature

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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