Question

Read the passages:

from "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back"

"I, too, am powerful, and I am young! I do not fear you. When I touch the earth, it grows soft and warm. Every living thing stirs in its sleep,—birds and bees, flowers and trees, animals and men. When I speak, the sleeping sun awakes. See! Already he begins to send down his arrows. Hasten! that they may not find you, on the trail to the North Sky."

from "How the World Was Made"

Even some of the trees went to sleep. Only the cedar, the pine, the spruce, the holly, and the laurel were awake all seven nights. Therefore they are always green. They are also sacred trees. But to the other trees it was said, “Because you did not stay awake, therefore you shall lose your hair every winter.”

Which best uses textual evidence to compare and contrast these two myths?


In "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back," the change in seasons is shown as an easy transfer of power. In "How the World Was Made," the change in seasons is shown as a natural, peaceful transition.

Both myths show the changes in seasons as a natural, peaceful transition.

In "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back," the change in seasons is shown as a violent battle. In "How the World Was Made," the change in seasons is shown as a natural, peaceful transition.

Both myths show the change in seasons as a violent battle.

Answer 1

In "How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back," the change in seasons is shown as a violent battle. In "How the World Was Made," the change in seasons is shown as a natural, peaceful transition.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the two myths about creation from the Iroquois, the main idea relayed through the two passages is that of the change in seasons. Both texts provided how the Iroquois people believe to be the transition of seasons from one to the next.

The first passage talks of how the sun "begins to send down his arrows", suggestive of violent warfare between the seasons. On the other hand, the second passage provides a much calmer and easier transition between the seasons, "Because you did not stay awake, therefore you shall lose your hair every winter."

While both passages talk of the transition, the former shows a violent battle and the latter shows it as a natural, peaceful change.

Thus, the correct answer is the third option.