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Walk Two Moon Character Analysis

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Robin Sharma once said, “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” This quote really relates to Sal because when her mother left she was a mess and it was hard for her. Later, she moved and more things changed and things happened that she didn 't expect to happen. Although, in the end she was happy in Bybanks and happy with her family and friends. In the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Sal changes significantly from a lot of external forces in her life. One of the biggest external forces that cause Sal to change is when she moved to Euclid, Ohio because she use to live in Bybanks, Kentucky and she loved it there, but then she moved to Euclid. Sal use to live in Bybanks, Kentucky where she had lived for most of her life. When she moved the Euclid she missed everything in Bybanks and she didn’t want to move. When she moved, she didn’t want anything to do with Euclid. It was very hard for her to adjust and she just wanted to go back to Bybanks. Sal says, “ ‘No trees?’ I said. ‘This is where we’re going to live?’ “ (page 1). Sal says, “He pronounced Illinois ‘I’ll-ah-no-way,’ exactly the way everyone in Bybanks, Kentucky, pronounced it, and hearing that ‘Ill-ah-no-way’ made me suddenly homesick for Bybanks,” (page 33). This is a kid who, in the past, didn’t live in Euclid. She lived in Bybanks, Kentucky, where there were trees, a swimming hole, a barn, and Sal loved all that. When she moved to Euclid she saw that there were no trees and

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