Walk Two Moons, written by Sharon Creech in 1995, is an award-winning novel that has become a staple of literature education. It tells the story of 13-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle as she embarks on a road trip with her grandparents to visit her mother who left home two years ago. Along the way, Salamanca learns about herself and comes to terms with the mysterious disappearance of her beloved father. The story follows both Sal’s present journey and stories from her past, told through flashbacks that offer insight into why certain events occurred and how they shaped Sal’s life up until this point.
their abandonment trauma and losses” (Gerlach 3). Moreover, as I read the whole novel in Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, I found the effect of abandonment in Sal, who is the main character. In my opinion, Sal is fearful because her mother leaves without notification. There are three different examples in which she displays fear after her mother abandons her. The first fear that Sal displays in Walk Two Moons is to reveal her true feelings. This is illustrated when she comments “gram and gramps knew
Beau Dupuy Literary Analysis - Theme Comparison Walk Two Moons vs. The Guest In the two stories, Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, and “The Guest,” by Uma Krishnaswami, the common theme “Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover” is developed. Both stories express the theme through certain characters’ actions and thoughts towards other characters. Characterization is the core element in the theme of both of these stories. In the story, Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, the main character named Salamanca
The people in our life play an important role in our personal growth. Relationships with others allow us to understand and see ourselves more clearly. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal’s able to accept her mother’s death because of the influence of Mrs. Partridge and Gram and Gramps. Sal is impacted and changed by her relationship with Mrs. Partridge; the mysterious woman was the person providing the messages left in front of the Winterbottom home. This message influences Sal when she considered
Have you ever had internal or external forces in your life? In the novel Walk Two Moons by (Sharon Creech) there are many internal and external forces. In the novel Phoebe Winterbottom’s encounters many internal and external forces that cause her to grow and change. One internal force that causes Phoebe to change is her being scared. First, it says “It must have been hard for her to maintain that smile because by the time English came around, her chin was quivering from the strain.” (Creech 120)
In Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, there is a very important subplot that relates to the main plot and it is about a girl named Phoebe and her whole, entire story. One reason and probably the most obvious is that in Phoebe’s story, her mother, Mrs. Winterbottom, goes away, and in Sal’s life, her own mother runs away. There are a few differences like Sal’s mom had passed away from her being in a bus crash in Idaho. So Sal indefinitely knew that her mother was not coming home. While, on the other
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
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
In the book Walk Two Moons one of the many themes that carried throughout the book was acceptance. Some parts of the book show how acceptance is one of the themes. For example, Sal had to learn to accept death, Phoebe had to accept her family changing and all the things that happens thoughout that time, and Sal accepting her father’s relationship with Mrs. Cadaver. For the whole book the author of Walk Two Moons mentions throughout the book about how Sal is starting to accept death. Sal’s first