“Don't judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins” (Creech 45) Sal's mother goes through many places on her journey and keeps connection with many others. In the novel “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, The protagonist ,Sal, resists, understands, and accepts the situation at one point or another in the story. In the beginning,Sals memories ly in Bybanks, Kentucky, the last moments of her family all together and happy. First sal states, “ I have lived most of my thirteen years in Bybanks, Kentucky.” (Creech 1) In other words, Sal grows up here all of her childhood memories with her whole family together, throughout the story she refers to this place a her one and only home. Then Sal had a flashback, “It was something that happened a couple of years ago… My father and I had already eaten breakfast… When my mom walked in.”( Creech 29). Sal points out her life before everything fell apart, her …show more content…
She observes “ and there, on a little hill overlooking the river and the valley, was my mother's grave.” (Creech 235) Basically, the whole story revolves around her mother and her disappearance but Sal figures it out and Sal had to accept the fact that her mother lies dead and will never to return. Later on Gramps sadly states “ I am sorry to say that our gooseberry died at three o’clock this morning” (Creech 238) In other words, one of the last people she can connect with will never be there anymore,the two had a special connection that the world rippes away. After thinking it over Sal says “one day I realized that our whole trip out to lewiston had been a gift from Gram and Gramps to me.” (Creech 241) In making this comment, the long journey finally over. We had seen how it all plays out,and she learns and discovers lots. In the last spot of the journey, many dramatic events occur, Sal finally can accept the whole situation with it all making
“Home is where the heart is” (Unknown). Meaning how homes are made of families and love. In the novle Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal changes due to the settings, Bybanks, Kentucky, Euclid, Ohio, and Lewiston, Idaho. Bybanks is important to Sal because that is where her old home was. The author uses Sals thoughts to show how Bybanks is important to her, “...he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hay loft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me” (Creech 1).
Both Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and “The Guest” by Uma Krishnaswami have a similar theme. This theme is don 't judge a book by it 's cover. Both authors teach the theme by the character 's thoughts and actions differently. Walk Two Moons theme is shown through Sal 's thoughts. So when Sal goes into walking Margaret Cadavers moccasins she realizes that you shouldn 't judge someone yet.
Have you ever had a house that was really important to you, but then you were forced to move away from it? Well something very similar happened to Sal . When Sal’s mom left out of the blue, Sal and her dad moved to Ohio. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the house in Bybanks Kentucky is an important setting to Sal because the house has Grams coffin there, the house brings back memories of her childhood, and the house reminds Sal that her mother is in an better place. One way the house in Bybanks is important to Sal is that gram’s coffin lies there.
(Walk Two Moons, 10.) But then I realized that she had a good reason. She had lived in the same house her whole life, and she was suddenly moved to this “pint-sized,” or, “pocket-sized,” (Walk Two Moons, 11,) house, she had very good reason to be stubborn. I grew to love Sal. Her oddities, her bravery, her orneriness.
These two activist, John Francis and Julia Butterfly Hill started extraordinary and brave movements in their life time. They both wrote memoirs. John’s is named Planetwalker, which is about when he decided after an oil spill in 1971, to stop using automobiles for twenty-two years and stop speaking shortly after for seventeen years. Julia’s memoir is called The Legacy of Luna Julia, which is about when she wanted to stop Pacific Lumber and decided to sit in a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California for about two years. These inspirational people both have similar stories and made an impact on the world
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.
Have you ever tried to fit in for someone else? That is exactly why Susan Caraway did. The novel Stargirl is about a cheerful, free spirited girl. Her name is Susan, but she is referred to as Stargirl throughout the novel. Stargirl is sixteen years old, and has been homeschooled all her life.
Readers do not know this, but readers can infer that Sal is sounding a little skeptical with them. Sal also wants to know as much as she can. She digs deep for information throughout the entire book, especially when it is about her mother. “I certainly do know heaps of stories, but I learned most of them from Gramps.” (Creech)
Sal can’t just throw away something or someone that she loves, so she memorizes
Sun Downs and Seasons The poem, ‘Sun Downs and Seasons’ was written by Kirli Saunders and is about trees, seas and seasons. This poem was chosen because of the productive use of imagery and repetition. It carries valuable information to custodians of the land and is understandable for people in Australia. ‘Sun Downs and Seasons’ is written by Kirli Saunders, who herself is a first-nation person. She is a Gunai woman, born in the Gundungurra country in New South Wales with ties to the Yuin Birpi and Gadigal people.
In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech the main character Sal is changed by both internal and external forces. An internal force that changes Sal is on page 35 when Sal states “ One day about two weeks after she had left, I was standing against the fence watching a newborn calf wobble on its thin legs. It tripped and wobbled and swung its big head in my direction and gave me a sweet look ‘Oh!’ I thought I am happy at this very moment in time.”’
Sal already knew her mom had died, but she didn’t want to believe it. She never let herself believe that her mom has passed away. Sal’s mom died when she was going to Lewiston, Idaho. She was in a bus, and the bus tipped over killing everyone except one person, and that person wasn't Sal’s mom. Sal loves her mom and doesn’t want to think she is dead.
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 hand.
Salamanca Tree Hiddle is taking a trip with her grandparents from Euclid, Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho, to visit her mother 's final resting place. She and her father left their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky, so she moved to Euclid Ohio. Salamanca and her grandparents arrive at South Dakota, when Salamanca talked about life of Phoebe 's mother. They have reached Coeur D 'Alene in northern Idaho, but Gramps and Sal must rush Gram, because she is in hospital. Later, Sal visit her mother 's grave and back to Coeur D 'Alene.