Time and How It Changes
Time & How Quickly it Changes or Does it? Times they are a changing, aren't they? In reading the stories entitled, "Iroquois Creation Story," by John Norton and "The Origin of the Creek Confederacy" by Chekilli in the book entitled, "The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America," by Colin G. Calloway, I have come to understand the ways of life in the early 1800's and the mid 1700's. Things seemed to be so different back then, but were they really? Did the people still have the same kinds of morals and values as people do now? Did they really live their lives that much differently than we do now? I have come to see that things really are not that different. It seems that these two stories are quite similar in the way the characters act, speak, and feel. They way they do these things are the almost the same way that we go about doing things now. The two brothers in the first story appear to be rivals: Good
In today's times, women are looked at as beautiful creatures because of the fact that they can produce life. The good brother has such high morals and he shows them by freeing the animals. In the "Iroquois Creation Story", the author discusses a "Great Spirit" (Calloway, 23) and because of the fact that she had become pregnant by an illicit conception that she must be thrown in a cavity in which a tree was formerly located. ! Their methods of doing things seemed to be so drastic and could have been handled in a much more relaxed sense. We have an election to declare who is to run certain things. That is, no matter by which means she becomes pregnant. They are very similar to people now in many ways, but, yes, they also have their differences as do many people. we just go about it in different ways now. On the contrary, I must state that in these stories some of their ideas seem ludicrous to me. In the second story, the groups of people in it are closely like us. They appear to go to such extremes when it comes to the simplest of things. Things do not really occur like that anymore, or at least I hope they don't.
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