This large turtle becomes the base for all of the Earth. “The woman took the tiny clod of dirt and placed it on the middle of the middle of the great sea turtle’s back” (26). The woman, who had grabbed a clump of tree root and dirt had the idea to let it grow on the turtle’s back, so she places it, and begins to circle it on the Turtle’s back, moving in the way the Earth rotates around the Sun. From the turtle’s back the Earth grows, the idea of the Earth growing from a Turtle’s back, and doing so almost immediately with only sea water and sunlight is another moment when the reader has to continue to read without questioning why it’s happening and just go with the
This large turtle becomes the base for all of the Earth. “The woman took the tiny clod of dirt and placed it on the middle of the middle of the great sea turtle’s back” (26). The woman, who had grabbed a clump of tree root and dirt had the idea to let it grow on the turtle’s back, so she places it, and begins to circle it on the Turtle’s back, moving in the way the Earth rotates around the Sun. From the turtle’s back the Earth grows, the idea of the Earth growing from a Turtle’s back, and doing so almost immediately with only sea water and sunlight is another moment when the reader has to continue to read without questioning why it’s happening and just go with the