Sadness In Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons

“You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”(Creech 178) Sadness acts like border and sometimes people have to get around it. In Sharon Creech’s novel Walk Two Moons, Sal and her father, John, have a importance to the Idaho setting by showing careness, perseverance, and acceptance over sadness.
In the beginning of Walk Two Moons, John shows the reader that Lewiston, Idaho has a caring part in his life. John realises, “that she was not returning---he pounded and pounded on that wall...hidden behind the wall was a brick fireplace.”(Creech 3) In making this comment, John feels depression and anger because he lost his wife in Idaho. John believes,.. “Maybe this is really why he was happy...or maybe it was because he could be alone with Margaret Cadaver.”(Creech 16) John knows what happened to Margaret, and he believes that staying with her brings ‘Sugar’ back

Sal implies, “He drove across the bridge into Lewiston...behind us was the deputy… the sheriff parked the car… there, was my mother's grave.”(Creech 253) The reader can infer that Sal could’ve gone to jail by attempting to drive alone, although she had some help, she willingly did that for her mother. Sal’s thoughts include,... “that I knew, by myself and for myself, that she was not coming back...I wanted to memorize the place.”(Creech 253-254) Hard for Sal to accept her mother’s death, so she memorizes the pleasant setting to stay with her mother forever. Sal insists that,... “she isn’t actually gone at all. She’s singing in the trees.”(Creech 254) Sal couldn’t actually believe that she lost her mother because her mother stays in her willow tree and still have a connection with Sal. Sal can’t just throw away something or someone that she loves, so she memorizes