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Memories Of The House In Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech

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Have you ever had a house that was really important to you, but then you were forced to move away from it? Well something very similar happened to Sal . When Sal’s mom left out of the blue, Sal and her dad moved to Ohio. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the house in Bybanks Kentucky is an important setting to Sal because the house has Grams coffin there, the house brings back memories of her childhood, and the house reminds Sal that her mother is in an better place.

One way the house in Bybanks is important to Sal is that gram’s coffin lies there. Sal and Gramps brought Gram’s coffin to Bybanks to always remember the good memories they had with gram before she got bitten by a snake and died on the road trip. In the text in chapter 44, paragraph 1, it says “Gram is buried in a aspen grove where she and grams were married.” This evidence shows that gram is buried in Bybanks to always be remembered before she got bitten by a snake. …show more content…

Through the book Sal talks about good memories she had growing up in the house at Bybanks. In chapter 1 when they moved to Ohio , Sal says “No Trees?’, “Where’s the barn?”, “The river” and “The swimming hole”. With these quotes we can make an inference that Sal is used to all these things and made great memories growing up in Bybanks with

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