Significance Of Walk Two Moon By Sharon Creech

“Don’t judge a man until you walked two moons in his moccasins.” (Creech pg) This saying repeats several times in the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech. Salamanca Tree Hiddle goes through many complicated events, which makes her not accept the fact that her mother, Chanhassen leaves. Sal goes on a journey with her grandparents from Euclid, Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho. Along the trip, we get familiar with Sal’s friend, Phoebe Winterbottom. Not only does Sal learn about historical facts and her real origins, but according to her, she has “the chance of walking in her mother's moccasins. To see what she had seen and felt what she might have felt on her last trip.” (Creech, 272). Throughout the novel, Sal learns that we need to place ourselves

Cadaver. To start, Sal sees Mrs. Cadaver as a murderer, an evil person and as a woman who is taking advantage of her father. Sal even follows Phoebe's predictions that Ms. Cadaver was the one responsible for her husband's death. However, everything changes when Mr. Birkway tells the girls that Mr. Cadaver died in a car accident. Suddenly, Sal starts to empathize with her. We are able to understand that Sal could not stop thinking how hard was to watch someone you love dying as she says, " I could feel her heart thumping like mad as she realized it was her own husband and her own mother lying there. I imagined Mrs. Cadaver touching her husband's face. It was as if I was walking in her moccasins, that's how much my own heart was pumping and my own hands were sweating." (Creech, 214). After really understanding about the bus crash, Sal realizes how Ms Cadaver was the only survivor and stood beside her mother before her death. Actually seeing her mother’s graveyard, helps Sal start a new chapter in her life. She realizes that the journey was a gift from Gram and Gramps, and as she says, “giving me the chance to walk in my mother’s moccasins-to see what she had seen and feel what she might have felt on her last trip.” (Creech,