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Identity In Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech

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A person’s identity changes much over time. The reasons may vary, from life experiences, friends, or merely growth, people go through a multifold of changes during his or her lifetime. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, we accompany thirteen year old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, as she walks her late mother’s footsteps to Lewiston, Idaho in an attempt to better understand why she left. Amid Sal’s sojourn to Idaho, she reveals her best friend Phoebe’s story, which veritably is merely a camouflage for her own, or as she discloses in the first chapter, “The reason Phoebe’s story reminds me of that plaster wall and the hidden fireplace is that beneath Phoebe’s story was another one. Mine.” (Creech 3) . As we unravel Salamanca’s story we witness …show more content…

One great example that may be given is that in the beginning of the book, Sal though of Mrs. Cadaver as nothing more than a haunting woman who had came from nowhere and got way too well with her father. However, by the end of chapter thirty-three, Salamanca not only stopped nonsensical assumptions, but also sympathizes with her, “At home that night, all I could think about was Mrs.Cadaver. [...] I could see the stretchers being wheeled in, and I could see Mrs. Cadaver looking down at them. I could feel her heart thumping mad as she realized it was her own husband and her own mother lying there. [...] It was as if I was walking in her moccasins, [...] “ (Creech 214). As the story moves along the young teenager also becomes more mature and understanding, “But as I was thinking these things, it occurred to me that a person couldn’t stay all locked up in the house like Phoebe and her mother had tried at first. A person had to go out and do things and see things, and I wondered, for the first time if this had something to do with Gram and Gramps taking me on this trip.” . During her road trip to encounter her mother Salamanca grows and matures into an independent

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