The Earth on the Turtles Back (:


My first thought when i was reading this story was that it reminded me of a childs story for an easy way to say the earth was created. One thing that i didnt understand was when the woman had the dream that the tree was uprooted, why they man had to really uproot the tree just because she had that powerfull dream. I though this was extremly unrealistic because one man could never just grab onto and tree and completely uproot it from the ground. Most of the characters were all animals that talked, i thought it was cute how all the aminals worked together to help the woman. In real life i really couldnt see animals of diffrent species working together and helping eachother to help a human. I thought it was a typical that the uncordinated and weak muskrat was the one that in the end swam and reached the earth even though she almost died doing it. In every story its always the least expecting character that saves something in the end. But in this story she saved the world because of her strong determination to do it. One thing that interested me about this story was how the turtle carried the earth on its back and thats how it got the marks on its shell, and i though that that was a funny way to try to explain why turtles have hard bumpy shells on thier backs. In this story the setting was interesting because at first the woman was in the sky in "skyland" and all the aminals were down in the water. The setting for the woman changed because when her husband uprooted the tree she was curious and was trying to look down on the water and she fell in. It was also cute how the swans made an effort to make sure the woman was gonna be okay when she was falling and caught her.