Walk Two Moons Analysis

Themes. Sometimes it takes a little bit of creativity to be discovered, but when it is A theme in literature is, in theory, what the book is all about. A book, such as Walk Two Moons, can have lots of them. Yes, there are a lot of themes in this book, explicit and implicit ones. But, in my opinion, the most important one is not the most explicit one that is displayed on the title of the book (which, in this case, would be to never judge others if you were never in their place), but the most implicit one. Therefore, the most important theme in Sharon Creech’s novel is that Salamanca, the main character in the novel, learned that grief can really change someone’s behavior, and that can lead to even worse things. In the beginning of the novel, the reader learned that Salamanca and her father were moving out of their farm home in Bybanks, Kentucky because the mother of the family decided to go “find herself”, and staying in that farm can lead to a lot of distress, because of all of the memories she left behind. The mother, which name is Chanhassen or Sugar, was trying to find herself by going on a road trip to Euclid, Ohio in a bus full of unknown

According to the Kübler-Ross model, there are five different stages of grief, which someone can display or feel all of them to only one of them, in no particular order. The stages are: depression, bargaining, denial, anger, and acceptance. Some people also feel shock. These stages makes a lot of changes in the person’s behavior and therefore in their lives. In Walk Two Moons, it shows that Sal’s father appeared to be displaying a lot of anger, by pounding at the wall he used to chip with a hammer and a chisel. “On the night we got the bad news - that she was not returning - he pounded and pounded on that wall with a chisel and a hammer.” (Creech