Phoebe In Sharon Creech's 'Walk Two Moons'

In both Kaye Gibbon’s Ellen Foster and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle the protagonists have to endure life growing up with minimal support from their parents or guardians. Both explore the difficulties they have to face growing up alone and how they overcome it. Child neglect forces children to learn and do things themselves. This level of independence at such a young age causes them to become more responsible than their peers and gives them determination to be different from their parents and learn from their own and their parents mistakes.

The story “Me And Earl And The Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The time setting is in the year 2011 nearing the end of the school year and main characters, Gregory Gaines, Earl Jackson, and Rachel Kushner are all in their senior year at Benson High School. The setting differentiates the character’s personality by separating them by social class. Author illustrates Rachel and Gregory living in a middle class home in a quiet neighborhood in the town area they live in. However, Earl lives in a dangerous and unkept part of the city that characterizes him and his family as dangerous people because of their semi-economic disadvantage. Andrews specifically describes the Jacksons’ house as “falling apart- there’s

In Sharon Draper’s novel We Beat the Street the reader is introduced to three very different characters, all of which grow up to be successful doctors. Rameck is a character that is very smart but can also be a troublemaker.Rameck strength in the book seem to be begin really smart also Rameck seems to be a leader because when Rameck started to through pencil at the ceiling all the other students in the classroom started to follow what he was doing also another on of Rameck strength is that Rameck learned to handle his problem with his words not with his hands.Now that we know some of Rameck strength let’s see some of his weaknesses. Some weakness of Rameck is that Rameck gets in trouble way too much also another one of Rameck weaknesses

One of the significant struggles in both Sal and Phoebe’s lives is that both moms are sad and their daughters don’t notice. Both Prudence and Sal don’t realize that their moms are sad, and carry on with their day, like nothing's bothering them. Sal said, “I could tell that Mrs. Winterbottom was trying rise above some awful sadness she was feeling, but

In Dorothy Allison’s short story “Context” (1994), Allison illustrates that really knowing someone demands an in-depth understanding of the person’s background, especially socially and family wise. Allison utilizes flashback along with imagery to help demonstrate how she feels about being judged. The flashback and imagery are used in order to help the reader get more of a feel for the story and picture the events happening. Allison writes this short story aimed at just the general audience and people who are or who have been in the same situation.

To begin, after Phoebe’s birth, David Henry instructs Caroline to take Phoebe to an institution. When she arrives at this run down building, she can’t get herself to do it. Instead of leaving Phoebe in those awful conditions, she decides to take Phoebe to be her daughter. It is best stated by Edwards when she writes, ”In every end, then, a beginning.” (Edwards.68). Caroline’s decision ends the life that she knew and throws her into the life of being a mother. Caroline leaves everything behind for the betterment of Phoebe’s life.

Have you ever had to experience lots of change in little time as if the world is against you. Salamaca tree hiddle has in the book Walk two moon. She moves from place to place missing her friends and her home. In the book Walk two moons by Sharon Creech an important setting of the book is Bybanks Kentucky in the present timeline. This is where the story takes place and is a main plot point.

In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Maggie changes drastically from the beginning to the end. Although she is not the main focus throughout the entire story, I consider Maggie a major in the story by her actions of evolving into a completely contrasting person.

In the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Phoebe Winterbottom is a character who was raised in a proper household, therefore, she views the Finney family different than Sal, the main character. Phoebe has grown up learning to be proper and respectable, so she thinks of the Finney’s as crazy and disorganized. For example, Phoebe points out, “Mary Lou’s parents don’t seem to have much control over things,“ as stated on page 44. (Creech, page 44.) This quote shows that Phoebe thinks that the Finney family is not as decent as hers. When Phoebe goes to Mary Lou’s home for dinner, she comments about cholesterol and how unhealthy they eat. For instance, on page 147, Phoebe declares, “Fried foods aren’t good for you. First of all there’s the

In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech the main character Sal is changed by both internal and external forces.

The word “confession” is often viewed with a negative connotation, such as confessing your sins or confessing to a crime. If someone told you they had to confess something to you, your initial reaction would be that they’ve done something horrible. But not all confessions are like that. Confessing your love to someone is not a negative thing, no matter the outcome. I believe “Ellen’s confession” is about a young woman with a secret. Perhaps the secret is shameful. Perhaps it isn’t. Either way, the weight of it has gotten too heavy, and it’s time for her to reveal it.

Counting by 7’s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan, is the astounding story of shy and reserved genius, Willow Chance, _______. Suddenly, her life is flipped upside down when her adoptive parents die in a car crash. With no where else to go, she turns to the Nguyen’s, a Vietnamese family she didn’t know until now. With further help from her school counselor, Dell Duke and taxi driver, Jairo Hernandez, Willow begins to move past her tragedy. In the end, Willow overcomes her grief and finds a family of her own. Not only had her friends changed her life, but she had changed theirs. I would recommend this outstanding book to anyone looking for a good

Maggie in Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” plays the role of being the nervous and ugly sister of the story, however she is the child with the good heart. Maggie was nervous ashamed of her scars “Maggie was nervous… she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs”. Living in a house with a pretty sister and being the ugly sister with scars could be the reason why she picked up on a timid personality, being ‘ashamed’ of her own skin shaping her in a way that she degraded herself from everybody else. Maggie was not this way before the fire, her mother stated, as it is quoted that she had adopted to a certain walk ever since the fire. She now walked looking down looking down as she shuffles

It’s not enough to know one, or even two of these points unless we know all three we shall be unable to arouse the other emotions. - Aristotle, and George Alexander Kennedy

In the novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges, the main character, Gilbert Grape, has romantic relationships with two women, Mrs. Betty Carver and Becky. Mrs. Betty Carver, in her forties, is a married woman. When Gilbert was a senior in high school, Mrs. Carver invited Gilbert over to her house, and over time they began having more intimate relations. This has been developing over the course of six years, and Gilbert is now twenty four years old. Becky is an otherworldly fifteen year old who has moved to Gilbert’s home town of Endora, Iowa for the summer. Gilbert is taken with Becky’s beauty, but Becky wants him to be more emotionally healthy before being involved in a relationship with him. Becky and Mrs. Carver both offer him different prospects in the areas of escape from his unsatisfactory life, love, and healing from his past.