Analysis Of ' Walk Two Moons ' By Sharon Creech

Someone once said, “When someone experiences a loss of a loved one, it changes them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.” For Sal, she changes because she’s a girl with her mom then she realizes that her mom’s not gonna ever be in her life anymore. In the novel, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, both external and internal forces changed Sal. One external force that caused Sal to change is Sal’s friendship with Phoebe and Ben.

Gabrielle Roy's "The Move", highlights a young girl's longing for adventure and travel toward unknown destinations. However, as she realizes what is truly present outside her imagination, a surge of disillusionment comes over her. The child's description of horses, spearheading an adventure, but then falling ill and tired, illustrates the girl's realization that excitement and joy in the world cannot amount to her vivid imagination. In the short story, the image of weary moving horses parallels the child's sudden grasp of reality, illustrating the naive character's loss of innocence.

Holden's younger sister Phoebe, is also in need of Holden's protection. He must protect her because he failed to protect his brother Allie from death. Holden feels that it is his responsibility to protect Phoebe from whatever may put her in danger, even himself: "I was glad. All of a sudden I wanted her to cry till her eyes practically dropped out. I almost hated her. I think I hated her most because she wouldn't be in that play any more if she went away with me." (207) He does not want Phoebe to turn out like himself. He wants

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Sal says that the story starts when her father unexpectedly makes sal go along with him to Euclid Ohio. They stop in front of a house and her father explains that this is where Margaret lives. Sal says she then sees a face in a window, a girls face. This is where her adventure begins, a tragic, wonderful, life-changing adventure. Sal explains that Phoebe’s story is in many ways the same as hers. She says that “Beneath Phoebe's story was another one. Mine.” (Creech, 3).

“Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true.”(Creech 1). Sal has always loved Bybanks, but the reason why changes throughout the book. In Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech uses the setting of Bybanks to change Sal with nature, memories of her mom, and her grandmother’s resting place.

The second example J.D. Salinger uses to show that Holden’s depression is not only affecting him, but the people around him, is through Phoebe. Phoebe is Holden’s younger sister. Even though their ages are significantly different, they get along well with each other. Phoebe does very well in school and she also has other talents like dancing. She is a happy, well adjusted child. After Holden gets kicked out of Pencey as a result of his depression, Phoebe becomes angry when she guesses why he came home early. She angrily exclaims, “You did get kicked out! You did!” (165) Phoebe cares for Holden and his failure in school upsets her. This shows how his depression has a ripple effect and reaches his relationship with Phoebe.

In the month of May 1992, Anna D Smith, who was an actress and playwright, started investigating the experiences, feelings and emotions of the Los Angeles peoples when the riots had happened. For her play; she wanted to perform an act of one woman on the stage and also published all those human experiences in her book. For her requirements she did interview more than 200 citizens of that country for getting the detailed information about Riots. However, through her play “Twilight” she wanted to explore the real picture of the people suffrages, police brutality, and exact problem behind the racisms, people feelings and thoughts about the brutality. Twilight describes all the pain and sufferings of the people who had lived during the riots period. Anna had presented clear visuals of riots including all human emotions, causes and their sufferings including all historical facts that were playing leading factors for it.

Along her journey, Sal endured many internal forces. For example, on page 208, it states “All those messages invaded my brain and affected the way I looked at things”. I think this is significant to the story because it proves that Sal grew and changed because of the messages. It made her think more of others, and it made her realize the truth of the Cadaver conspiracy. Another internal force that made Sal change was found on page 262. It states “We walked in everybody’s moccasins,

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An external force that caused Sal to change, is her sister passing away. Sal fell out of a tree when her mom was supposed to have a baby later that day. Sal broke her leg and had to be carried by her mom across the long fields. Soon after that, her mom had her baby and she was dead. After that event, Sal changed in her social life and feelings. She became more scared and jumpy and thought that she killed her sister, which made her afraid of pregnant women. With all that guilt, Sal thought she might have been the cause of her mother leaving.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said, “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden”. This is true to Sal because she has had to change many, many times, or would harden. In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, external and internal forces change Sals and Phoebe’s life throughout the book. First, one of the biggest external forces that causes Sal to change is when her sister Tulip, died before she was born. Sal is very excited to have a baby sister which Sal never had.

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