“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” Salamanca Tree Hiddle also referred to as Sal is 13 years old moving from Bybanks Kentucky to Euclid Ohio after her Mom left to Idaho. Explain how external forces cause Sal from Walk Two Moons to grow or change. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the main character Salamanca Tree Hiddle has experienced many external forces that have helped her grow; her mom having a miscarrige, her mom leaving, and moving to Ohio. Sal’s family was expecting a baby, but sadly after she was born it passed away. In chapter 23, online page 97 “The Badlands” when Gramps offered a pregnant woman who was dabbing her face with a handkerchief. Which frighted Sal she went off to look around because it reminded her of her mom while she was pregnant. On pages 137-139, Sal thinks about the night the baby passed away. The baby died while in the womb strangled by the umbilical cord unfortunately. ‘’They took out all my …show more content…
Pages 1 and 2 Sal explains how she feels moving “my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true - he did not bring the chestnut tree or the willow or the maple or the hayloft or the swimming hole or any of those things which belong to me.” She had so much love for all the little things back at home and she had to leave them. Page 9 when Sal makes it to her new home she didn’t even bother to interact with Marget Cadver(the reason she moved) she did not want one thing to do with her. Sal shared many happy memories in Bybanks especially the singing tree, the tree had empathy for Sal by being sad when Sal is sad and singing when she's happy. Whenever Maregt was mentioned Sal did not want to talk to her or about her, she tried to avoid her at all costes. But when she retuned to her hometown after the passing of Gram she felt happy again a empty place in her heart was