King’s comparison over the creation story of Genesis, where Adam and Eve were created by God, and the creation story of Charm falling out from the sky pregnant to twins create an interesting analogy and interpretation to what story we should believe, and what to consider just a story.

 

Interestingly, I think what King is trying to tell us is the comparison between the two stories is actually unnecessary. In my opinion, I genuinely think that both creation stories are worth believing depending on which religious thought you have in mind. King speaks in an authoritative way while telling the Genesis creation story because God is the only one creating the world. With His will, He can create anything He wants to. God is an omnipotent being and that God is the creator of everything. A clear difference of the essence of being shows while King narrates the story. Humans, plants, and animals are all under Him, and we are His creation, therefore we are below Him. To emphasize this fact, King chose to narrate the story in an authoritative way in order for us to really focus on the story, and to improve the credibility of the story.

 

The other reason why King chose to speak in different styles was to increase the credibility of the story that is being told. With the creation story of the Sky Woman, a lot of animals co-operate together to build a beautiful world, no one is in charge, and no one is ordering anybody in the story to make something happen. They all co-operate and the sense of working together itself gives out a vibe that everybody is equal. With the story telling style of narration, this adds credibility to the story.

 

If the story was done in an authoritative way, just like the Genesis story, then the credibility of the Sky Woman story would not be as credible because the very nature of the story is already paradoxical. Therefore, I think in a sense King was trying to tell us that the narration of a story depends also on the context of the story. By giving a dichotomy of two stories, of course maybe he was trying to say that one of them is real and one of them isn’t, but the very purpose of the different style of narration he chose was to show that narration also impacts how the story is understood by the readers, or the listeners.

 

Works Cited

“Iroquois Creation Myth.” Creation Myths — Iroquois Creation Myth, www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12.html.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Adam and Eve.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 27 Dec. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-and-Eve-biblical-literary-figures.