Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “The longer we live, the more we are like other persons.” This is true to Sal in Phoebe throughout Walk Two Moons. Because, both Sal and Phoebe, experienced similar events in their lives, both of their mother’s left and they both did similar things like pointing out things that reminded them of their mothers or collecting their mothers hair. Two major similar stories between Sal and Phoebe evident throughout the story Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, is that Sal and Phoebe’s stories are similar because both of their mothers left. In the plot and the subplot, Sal and Phoebe both experienced a significant event because both of their mothers left. Sal's mother left when she had a miscarriage and even she wanted to find herself …show more content…
Before Sal’s mother left she yelled at her, and before Phoebe’s mom left she treated her like a servant and gave her no respect for the work that her mother did for her. Sal says, “Before I left Phoebe’s that day, Mrs. Winterbottom handed Prudence her brown skirt with the newly sewn hem, and all they way home I wonder about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn’t like all that baking and cleaning and jumping to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it?”(83). Sal and Phoebe’s mothers both felt guilty in a way, for Sal her mom felt guilty about her baby dieing, and for Phoebe her mom felt as if she had a small life and was guilty about putting her son up for adoption. Sal says, “The baby,’she said. ‘It didn’t make it,’ he said. ‘I’ll hold the baby,’ she said. ‘It didn’t make it,’ he repeated. ‘It can't be dead,’ she said in that same singsong voice. ‘It was alive just a minute ago,”(139). Sal’s mother was devastated that the baby died and thought it was her fault so she felt useless. Both Sal and Phoebe’s mothers felt useless and unwanted before they