The Earth on Turtle's Back

I personally think that the story was really well written and the moral behind it is what really stood out to me. The moral being that you shouldn't underestimate what one is capable of doing because of their sex or size. It's not just in stories where this moral exists, but it's very unfortunate that it also applies to the real world. I simply think that people in general shouldn't have to make the other sex feel like they're less when the truth is that we're all the same and are capable of accomplishing the same things. In this story, something that stuck out to me was that there were many animals who tried to help the "small" muskrat return back to Earth after she fell into the hole. After many attempted to go through the hole, the small female muskrat finally decided to try it herself after seeing that the other animals couldn't. I really enjoyed to see that it was a small female animal who was capable of returning to Earth because that just proves that women are just as capable as men when it comes to doing something and size doesn't really impact what you can or can't do. I forgot to mention that this story is actually a myth, which is a story that is created to explain something that we don't understand. Throughout the myth, we can see that personification was used since the animals were talking but we all know that animals don't really talk.