Powerful Imagination In Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moon

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In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech the narrator Salamanca describes her new friend Phoebe Winterbottom as having a “powerful imagination” (page 2). Sal says that no one in Phoebe’s world was “ordinary” and that she had the “power” to make people seem either “perfect”, “lunatics or axe murders” (pg 21). I would agree with Sal that Phoebe has a powerful imagination because Phoebe is overly dramatic in telling about Margaret Cadaver: 1) She emphasizes words like “dead body” (page 20) and “spooky” (page 21), 2) She talks about secrets and promises (page 21) 3) she uses vivid details about Margaret’s “sticking-out red hair” and “her voice was like dead leaves blowing around in the wind” (page 20). And finally, 4) Phoebe suggest that