Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back."One day, when the girl had become a woman, a man appeared. No one knows where this man came from. Perhaps he was sent from the Gods above. The girl was so filled with wonder to see this strange man, she lost her senses and fainted. The man yielded two very different arrows, and laid them across the body of the girl in opposite directions, then he disappeared. Which statement best describes the significance of the arrows? a. They represent the fact that the woman will die in childbirth. b. They represent a warning from the man to the woman. c. They represent the man's intention to kill the woman. d. They represent the twins that the woman will bear.

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Mia Brown

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19 June, 14:34

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back."One day, when the girl had become a woman, a man appeared. No one knows where this man came from. Perhaps he was sent from the Gods above. The girl was so filled with wonder to see this strange man, she lost her senses and fainted. The man yielded two very different arrows, and laid them across the body of the girl in opposite directions, then he disappeared. Which statement best describes the significance of the arrows? a. They represent the fact that the woman will die in childbirth. b. They represent a warning from the man to the woman. c. They represent the man's intention to kill the woman. d. They represent the twins that the woman will bear.

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Dax Zimmerman · Answer 1

d. They represent the twins that the woman will bear.

Explanation:

The creation myth "The World On Turtle's Back" is an Iroquois belief of how man came into being. This legendary myth details how the earth came to be formed and man came to be created.

Based from the excerpt given in the question, the narrator states how the two brothers were born. By the "two arrows" yielded by the man, the girl who fainted would give birth to two very different twins. The presence of the two arrows "in opposite directions" next to her body signifies the symbol of the brothers' births, which at the same time, also shows their differences in personality.