Themes In Walk Two Moons

“Oh Sal,” my father said. “Come on. There’s Margaret.”(pg. 2) In the book Walk Two Moons, Sal goes on an adventure with her Gram and Gramps to Lewiston, Idaho where they intend to find Sal’s mother and bring her back to Bybanks, Kentucky where they used to live before moving to Euclid, Ohio, so that life could be back to normal, but along the way, Sal tells Gram and Gramps a story about her friend Phoebe Winterbottom, but as she is telling Phoebe’s story, she uncovers another story. Her own. What I am hear to talk about is the theme in Walk Two Moons. I think the theme in Walk Two Moons is “Don’t judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins.”(pgs. 47 and 53). Below are a few reasons why I believe this.

The first reason I think that the theme in Walk Two Moons is, “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins,” is because, when Sal and her father first moved to Euclid, Ohio, Sal’s father

Cadaver. It says: “And speaking of odd, there’s something very odd about that Mrs. Cadaver.” “Margaret?” I said. “She scares me half to death,” Phoebe said. “Why?” That’s what I’m telling you,” she said. “First there’s that name: Cadaver. You know what cadaver means?” Actually, I did not. “It means dead body.” When Phoebe said this, I think that even though cadaver means dead body, that shouldn’t mean that she should judge her by her last name before Phoebe had gotten to know her. This quote also ties into the theme because, Phoebe doesn’t know Mrs. Cadaver that well and because of her last name, she is afraid of her, but I don’t think Phoebe exactly put herself in Mrs. Cadavers “moccasins” as it says in the theme. This is the second reason why I think the theme in Walk Two Moons is “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his