The Woman Who Fell From The Sky: A Comparative Analysis

Beauty is determined by society and their standards. Women are expected to be skinny, pretty and a size two which puts a lot of pressure on women. The pressures of society persuade women to go through extreme measures to fit in with society standards. This is evident in the short story “The Falling girl” and “They’re Not Your Husband” as the main characters are impacted by social expectations, insecurity and peer pressure.

The quote from the story is trying to show all the labels of the two twins meaning the right is good and the left is bad. In Genesis everything that makes Earth is created from god such as when God said “Let there be light. There was light” (Bible Gateway, Genesis 1) and when God said “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” And it was so(Bible Gateway, Genesis

In the Genesis story, God created two lights, one to control the darkness and one to control the heavens, essentially, good and evil. “And God made the two great lights – the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night – and the stars.” (Genesis). This is similar to The World on the Turtle’s Back, where the two brothers controlled the good and evil, the light and the darkness. “The right-handed twin made the deer, and the left-handed twin made the mountain lion which kills the deer. But the right-handed twin knew there would always be more deer than mountain lions.” (Iroquois). This quote tells us of the balance that there was between the two twins. While the left-handed twin always made animals to counter with the animals made by the right-handed twin, there would always be enough animals made by the right-handed twin that the system would stay balanced. “the daylight realm of the right-handed twin… the domain of the left-handed twin – the fearful realm of night.” (Iroquois). This shows us the differences between the twins in which the right-handed twin symbolized good and light, while the left-handed twin symbolized evil and darkness. These two stories however differ from that of the Creation story. In the story, Creation, there is no god that controls good or evil, there is only light and darkness, but the two gods together make the world balanced with both good and evil. “All the mysteries and power in the Above belonged to Tawa, while Spider Woman controlled the magic of the Below.” (Hopi). These two gods worked together, neither was evil but Tawa was seen as light and Spider Woman was seen as darkness. “Rain Cloud will pour down waters, and Tawa will smile upon it so that green things will spring up to feed my children.” (Hopi).

In the excerpt “Skywoman Falling” from the book Braiding Sweetgrass written by Robin Kimmerer, “We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn – we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance” (9). Even though the human species think they know almost everything, they have been on earth for the least amount of time in comparison to other species; therefore, humans have the most learning to do. “Skywoman Falling” involves a protagonist, Skywoman, who creates the earth from her bare hands and her knowledge from the Skyworld. Skywoman created the earth from her own ideas, free will, and knowledge. Another creation story is Paradise Lost by John Milton, which involves mainly Satan, God, Adam, and Eve. God has all of the past, present, and future knowledge; however, Satan is trying to ruin all of God’s plans. Satan does this by shapeshifting and tempting Adam and Eve. “Skywoman Falling” involves a protagonist, Skywoman, along with many different animals. In the beginning of this short story, Skywoman falls from a hole in the Skyworld, but soon animals come help her to create a safe landing. The animals then assisted Skywoman in collecting mud from the bottom of the sea, and she then placed the mud on a turtle’s back and began to dance around, eventually creating the earth. Another creation story is Paradise Lost by John Milton. This story is about Satan rebelling against God, and Satan trying to ruin God’s plans. He does

The short story What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky written by Lesley Nneka Arimah, is a fairly good story, even though it can be a bit slow and boring at times. Even though it can be slow and boring, does not mean it is a bad piece of literature. In fact, it is a satisfactory short story, and there are several reasons for that. The first reason is that the plot is a very interesting one, from the general story, to the way it is constructed and written. The second reason is because the main conflict of the story, although changed for a more futuristic feel, is pain. Pain is a popular conflict and in this particular case, most people can relate to the type of pain our main character, Nneoma, is going through. The third and final reason it is a favorable story is because there is a bit of symbolism, and a type of warning for the future that we are beginning to experiment with, which makes for a very interesting topic.

Before they are even born their differences begin to emerge. One boy is born with a dark mind full of evil and destruction, while the other has a mind for creation and goodness and light. The Good Twin creates the world similar to how the God of the Bible does when it speaks in Genesis of how He created the universe in a period of seven days. The Evil Twin is said to make injurious reptiles to try to hurt the humans that his brother created, and therefore can be compared to Satan who appears as a serpent and destroys the peace of mankind. Good and evil twins are commonly found in several myths of other American Indian tribes as well.

“The Iroquois Creation Story” tells the ancient myth when only two worlds existed. One, in the lower half, complete darkness filled with monsters and the other, the upper world, filled with mankind. There, in the second world, a women conceived twins. As her labor intensified she fell closer and closer to the lower, darker world. While in distress the twins were born and “entered the dark world by compulsion”. Only a few moments later the women fell to her death. As the twins grew older they possessed different minds. One was the good mind and the other was the bad mind. The good mind used the parent for his initial creations. Around the head, an orb was created to “bestow light to the new world”, now known as the sun. Another orb was placed around the body which was “inferior” to the light, now known as the moon. He also created spots of lights to connect the day and night which are now know as stars. All of these were created to help “regulate” the days, nights, season, years, etc.”. The good mind continued his creations by creating animals, oceans, mountains, insects and mankind.

The Iroquois tribe also believes that man is sculpted from clay. The twins from the story created man from the Earth’s soils. The Seneca myth confirms that, “Man was made of clay, like pottery, and baked in the fire,” but there were people created who, “always lied, and [they] always did things backward. You could never tell what [they were] trying to do because [they] always made it look as if [they] were doing the opposite,” just as the morally crooked, left-handed twin does (“The World on the Turtle’s

The biography Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein is about twins that got separated at birth, and now are finding out there is another person in the world with their exact DNA. They were part of a study on separated twins. It was to see in nature versus nurture which one has more of an impact. (31-32) Identical twins were easiest to study because of their identical DNA. Scientists working on the study placed both girls in a family in which are very similar; therefore, they both have a brother that is a couple years older than them. They find out about the other twin, and Paula is having their

The bad mind baby - Enigonhahetgea that had an evil opinion and born under the side of his mother?s arm, and the good mind baby - Enigorio born the normal way. In the Christian story, there has man and woman. On the other hand, in Iroquois has two-difference kind of people ? good mind people and bad mind people.

Monozygotic twins: Monozygotic twins are also known as identical twins. These twins start their life as one egg which is fertilized by one sperm and latter splits into two eggs much earlier in the gestational period. These are very rare and have no link to heredity. But studies reveal that only one of four conceptions of twins is identical. Therefore, it seems likely that any differences between twins will have to be caused by environment rather than by genetics.

In “They’re not your husband”, Earl told his wife “I think you’d better consider going on a diet. I mean it. I’m serious you could stand to lose a few pounds” (Carver 2). This example clearly showed the comments from the businessmen impacted Earl in wanting his wife Doreen to look a certain way and fit in with society.

Bill and Bob are born in Maine, they are twins, and lived a decent life. Bob is a nice guy and makes an honest living driving a semi truck. His face is covered in freckles and he has short blue curly hair. Bill works in landscaping. And Mia and Sophia grew up in Wyoming, both were nice girls, also twins around the same age as Bill and Bob, and also have long, straight pink hair. Mia made a trashy living at a pet store. Sophia worked at taco bell. Both sets of twins moved to Louisiana for work and a better life.

Throughout history, across all cultures, people have been fascinated with twins. In addition to interest in the close emotional ties and biological similarities that twins may share, reports of special twin languages and twin extrasensory perception (ESP) help people to explore ideas of what it means to be human. How similar or different are they to each other? How important are genes and environment for development? Because identical twins share all of their genes, it is the environment—rather than genetics—that accounts for any differences between them.

This video was very interesting. Twins have many things in common. They are physically, mentally, and emotionally connected. More twins are born now than ever before. 1 in 250 births are identical twins. Some areas in Britain have more twins, but they don't know why that is. I did not know that 2/3 of our intelligence comes from our parents. Communication is very important to a twin relationship. Even though heavier babies of the twins are dominant, it doesn't mean the other is weaker. There were these two boys that were like babies, and when one was hurt then the other would scream. "It's like the same person has been examined