THE EARTH ON TURTLE’S BACK

This story was overall really interesting. I think that it’s a good story to tell children and show them that a girl can be the hero. Mostly in stories that are told to kids men are the heroes. Women have a smaller role in these stories and I don’t think that’s fair to the young girls hearing them. It’s good for them to have someone to look up to and want to be like them. There were some parts of the story that made me question what was going on. Like when the chief's pregnant wife went towards the edge of the hole to look into it. She held on to one of the tree's roots but ended up falling anyways. Why would anyone let a pregnant woman stand near the edge of a hole that she can fall into and die. That didn't make any sense to me. Also in the myth the animals talk. I get it its a story told to kids but come on. I guess that's why they call them myths.

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