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Analysis Of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moon

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When my grandpa passed away, I felt so empty it felt like a puzzle got lost from me then after days and days without seeing him because he is living more far where I live. Then after I felt much better because my mom got a photo of him to remember him everyday and thinking about the memories I had with him. Much like this, when Sal accepts that her mom was dead and kept a valuable thing of her mom. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech,The most important setting for Sal is her mom’s grave because she didn’t want to accept that her mom was dead like what other people thought. So she went from planning to go to her mom’s grave and took her grandpa’s car and drove to Lewiston,Idaho then after she went inside the bus and the sheriff …show more content…

One important setting for Sal is her mom’s grave because she felt left out and never spoke out that her mom was dead.Then when Sal went to Lewiston,Idaho and the sheriff found her and took her to her mom’s grave and said ‘’ She is’t actually gone at all. She’s singing in the trees.’’ ‘’Whatever you say,Miss Salamanca Hiddle.’’ the sheriff said.This evidence show that Sal knows that her mom isn’t really gone that’s she in the trees singing and Sal knows now that her mom is dead and got nothing to do to bring her back to Bybanks,Kentucky.In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech the most important setting for Sal was her mom’s grave because she felted down and never told anyone that her mom wasn’t with her. Then she went planning to go drive to Lewiston,Idaho and wanted to see her mom. Then when the sheriff found the car where Sal was driving in and saw her in the bus where Sal wanted to find evidence of her mom.Much like when Sal didn’t want to accept that her mom was dead and kept a valuable thing of her mom.This happened to me once when my grandpa died and I felt so sad and so

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In the novel “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, Bybanks is an important setting to sal because her mom left, she grew up their and gram was buried their. Sal’s mom left because she didn’t think she was good enough for her family In chapter six paragraph five page thirty three sal’s mom said,”Oh, you’re to good Jhon you’re to good.” She thinks this because he made food, put her favorite flower next to her food and he finished the fence in the morning. Those are some reasons why sal's mom left.

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The last external force that changed Sal was the fears she gained when she heard that her mom was dead. In the novel Sal gained fears of a whole bunch of life threatening things when her mom died. On page 12 Sal says, “For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant woman, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things.” This proves that Sal developed fears when her mom died. This is because Sal’s mom picked her up when she got hurt and killed the baby so now Sal is afraid of that.

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The book “Walk Two Moons” opens on Salamanca or Sal for short who was going to Idaho from Ohio with her grandparents to see her mother who was no longer with the family. While they are on the road her grandfather asks to hear a story so Sal tells her grandparents the story of Phoebe. She tells them about how she and her father moved from their huge farm back in Kentucky to a small neighborhood with close together houses in Ohio so that her father could be closer Margaret Cadaver who Sal did not like, Margaret’s (Mrs. Cadaver) neighbor was Phoebe. Soon, strange notes begin appearing on Phoebe’s doorstep and the only explanation that Phoebe’s young mind can think of is that there is a lunatic in the neighborhood. On top of this Phoebe’s mother

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I pulled up to the bus crash site knowing my mom was once on that bus once. The cops rolled up to the site and I talked to them about my 4 hour drive from Coeur d’Alene by myself. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal changes to learn how to accept things like her mom’s death due to multiple external forces. One external way that makes Sal learn to accept things is her mom’s death on the bus ride to Lewiston, Idaho.

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This evidence supports my statement that the farm in Bybanks Kentucky is an important setting because the farm sort of left an imprint in Sal’s soul, making her think about her mother, driving her to go on the road trip to hopefully bring back her mother on her

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“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins” (Creech) the quote represents the change of subplot connection to the plot. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech shows connection of subplot affecting plot through changes in different ways. The novel Walk Two Moons Phoebe’s subplot connects to the main plot through friendship, emotion, and teamwork. Phoebe’s subplot connects to the main plot because of their friendship. When the text states “ ‘Sal you’re so courageous.

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An important setting to sal. Have you ever had to experience lots of change in little time as if the world is against you. Salamaca tree hiddle has in the book Walk two moon. She moves from place to place missing her friends and her home. In the book Walk two moons by Sharon Creech an important setting of the book is Bybanks Kentucky in the present timeline.

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Someone once said, “ Life is a war, with blood shed and hate, but in that hate, love and warmth grows in the corner to show you, you are not alone.” This relates to Sal and Phoebe greatly, because of their similarities in their life, and their moms leaving, and them thinking the same way. In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the struggles Phoebe faces in subplot are similar to the struggles that Sal faces in the plot. One of the significant struggles in both Sal and Phoebe’s lives is that both moms are sad and their daughters don’t notice. Both Prudence and Sal don’t realize that their moms are sad, and carry on with their day, like nothing's bothering them.

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