Cartoon GRASP



Cartoon GRASP

Sky Woman from “The Haudenosaunee Creation Story”

Objective of the Assignment

For this paper we shall pertain to understand the significance of cartoons and cartoon characters and that how have these characters have played in contributing towards the development and growth of early North America. This paper shall help us understand the origins and the mythological facets; it would entail that how did the state of North America come into existence and pertain to describe the relationship between the people of North America and its creation upon Earth.

Cartoons: A history in focus

Cartoons have been an inevitable and an extremely vital part of everyone's lives. Both young and old, teenagers and adults have had their favorite cartoon stories, which have been a strong part of people's lives (Grindle, 1992).

Many have evolved and tailored their lives according to these little cartoon fantasies, such as becoming the hero of the land; people have worked endlessly to fulfill these little wishes and creating themselves (Johansen & Grinde, 1991).

Many have made cartoons and their lives as their own and try to imitate the level of happiness and satisfaction that cartoons have had in their lives (Johansen & Mann, 2000). In this paper, we shall be founding upon understanding and comprehending the role of 'Sky Woman', a protagonist and leading character from the novel 'The Haudenosaunee Creation Story'.

The Haudenosaunee Creation Story

To understand the impact the cartoons have had, we must first gain nominal understanding regarding the connections that this story has with North America. The genre of this story is mythological, which describes how North America came into existence (Tooker, 1990).

The story entails around the philosophy of the inception of man and how he must spend his life and his time in this mortal world (Johansen & Grinde, 1991). The story begins when a pregnant, feminine figure, called the Sky Woman, falls from the sky when picking up fruit from a forbidden tree to satisfy her craving.

On her fall, birds inside came together into a cluster and cushioned her fall (Grindle, 1992). Since all was water, animals like the beaver, the loon, the duck and the muskrat were living and who were considered the 'water animals'. With the Sky Woman waiting to be cushioned, the muskrat summoned a turtle with earth, which is now labeled Turtle Island (pictured above) (Johansen & Grinde, 1991).

Here, when the Sky Woman was placed over it in order for her to rest. The story then moved onto a phase where the Sky Woman gives birth to twins; the first one to arrive was called the 'Good Spirit', who bought endless good and ample peace to the land (Johansen & Mann, 2000). The other one had given so much pain to the Sky Woman that she died and passed away, thus being entitled as the 'Evil Spirit', since he was born through the armpit. He, in contrast to the Good Spirit's efforts, who brought countless ills, misery and adversity to the land, creating problems for the ...