Question

Read this excerpt from "The World on Turtle's Back." The conflict between the twins continued, and for some reason, the grandmother favored the left-handed twin. The right-handed twin became angry and resentful. He was the truthful twin who always did the right thing. The left-handed twin was deceitful and did everything backward. You could never trust him. The twins represented the two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these good and evil. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the righteous man and the devious man, the right and the left. The main purpose of this excerpt is to

Answer 1

It might be said that the purpose of this extract might be to provide an explanation on what the Iroquois considered the two different sides of human nature. The example of the twins could be stated in order to make the topic clearer by resorting to a common idea, so that everyone could be able to understand. 

Answer 2

The correct answer would be D. The excerpt talks about the twins, how one was good and the other was bad. The straight mind and the crooked mind, the righteous man and the devious man, the right and left. It is talking about the two different sides that humans have. The twins being represented as all of human behavior.