which best compares and contrasts the purpose of "proserpine" to that of "how old man winter was driven back"?

1) the greek myth explains the creation of the earth, while the iroquois myth also explains why there is evil in the world.

2) the greek myth explains the changing of the seasons as well as the existence of the underworld, while the iroquois myth also explains the changing of the seasons.

3) the greek myth explains the creation of the earth, while the iroquois myth also explains the changing of the seasons.

4) the greek myth explains the creation of the earth, while the iroquois myth also explains why there is evil in the world.

Your answer is 2.)The Greek myth explains the changing of the seasons as well as the existence of the underworld, while the Iroquois myth also explains the changing of the seasons.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.