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Stages Of Grief In Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech

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Walk Two Moons

Were you a judgemental person when you were younger? But as you grew older you realized that judging others was wrong? The novel, “Walk Two Moons,” written by Sharon Creech, is about a girl named Salamanca Tree Hiddle. Salamanca’s mother left her and her father to go to Idaho, but died in a bus crash on the way there. She and her father moved to Ohio from Bybanks, Kentucky, where she met Phoebe Winterbottem, her best friend. Salamanca also embarks on a roadtrip to Idaho with her grandparents to visit her mother’s grave and celebrate her mother’s birthday. On the road trip, she tells her grandparents about Phoebe’s story. She later realizes that beneath Phoebe’s story, is her story. The novel showcases how Sal undergoes the stages of grief. At first, she is depressed about her …show more content…

Winterbottom was acting before she left and understands why her mother might’ve left. While Salamanca was at Phoebe’s house, she noticed how Mrs. Winterbottom was acting. She noticed when she was sad, when she was feeling lonely, and when she felt ignored. She didn’t know for sure if Mrs. Winterbottom actually felt those ways, but Mrs. Winterbottom's actions helped her make an inference that Mrs. Winterbottem lacked self-esteem, just like her own mother. On page 97, it reads, “I could tell that Mrs. Winterbottom was trying to rise above some awful sadness she was feeling, but Prudence couldn’t see that. Prudence didn’t want her to. Prudence had her own agenda, just as I had had my own agenda that day my mother wanted me to walk with her. I couldn’t see my own mothers sadness.” Salamanca made connections from the day before her mother left, to before Mrs. Winterbottom left. Salamanca’s mother wanted her to take a walk with her, but Salamanca said she didn’t want to. Mrs. Winterbottom wanted to watch Prudence’s cheerleading tryouts, but Prudence didn’t want her

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