Analyzing Sharon Creech's 'Walk Two Moons'

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.

The poem “The White Porch” by Cathy Song is an illustration of maturity and coming of age. There is an innocent tone to the beginning of the poem with sensual undertones as the writing progress’s. In the poem, a woman is reminiscing about her young womanhood as she sits on her porch awaiting her presumed lover. Song creates the character of the woman to be of a homemaker, describing her duties taking care of laundry, having a cake in the oven and snapping beans in her lap. Through the visualization that Song creates it is assumed that the woman is pregnant, and as she is waiting for her husband she thinks back to the things she herself used to do when she was younger with her own mother. She is reflecting on the way her mother raised her thinking about how she wants to raise her own child. The speaker admits to sneaking in her lover late at night behind her mother’s back, but does not seem to feel remorseful because all her decisions led to where she is in her life now. Cathy Songs poem “The White Porch” portrays the transition of a girl into a woman using symbolism, imagery and simile.

Phoebe believes that this is because of the “lunatic”. Later, when sal and Phoebe go to find the lunatic, they see him with Phoebe’s mother. At the end of the book, sal expresses that she is jealous because Phoebe found her mother, and she did not find hers.

This apprises the reader on how Margaret is kinda being bi-polar and how she just faked the whole thing about her being sad. By her crying, she indirectly professes that she cares about her husband but in reality she’s a brutal women who does really care about him.

Many live under the assumption that those who come to the United States want to become Americanized and assimilate to the melting pot our culture has formed into. This is the populations ethnocentric belief, which is the belief that the ways of one’s culture are superior to the ways of a different culture, that wants others to melt into the western ways. In Ann Faidman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Faidman fails to completely remain objective when demonstrating how cross-cultural misunderstandings create issues in the healthcare field, specifically between the Hmong and western cultures that created dire consequences between the Lee’s and their American doctors. Faidman uses her connections with the Hmong and the doctors who cared for them in order to disclose the different views, beliefs and practices the Hmong and Western cultures practiced. With her attempt to be culturally relative to the situation, Faidman discusses the series of events and reasons as to why the Lee’s faced the fate that they did and how it parallels to the ethnocentrism in the health care system.

Phoebe had shown signs of anger when dealing with her mother who was very distraught after losing her son. She was angry that her mother wouldn’t like to hear anything that she had to say about Mick. Her mother, at any sign of Mick’s name, would cover her ears or tell Phoebe to stop. This made Phoebe upset and

Barb blames Janice for Anne's death to hurt her and make her feel guilty, not knowing that Janice already feels guilty but does not express it. However, Barb does not think about the challenges Janice might have endured but is angry because she is not the ‘ideal Janice’ that she had been expecting. Barb is too busy and eager wanting to express her anger towards Janice that she cannot relate to Janice’s problems and the struggles that she goes through. Barb’s lack of sympathy towards the unexpected changes in Janice’s life only results in a bigger gap in their relationship. Once Barb and Janice start talking, Barb is again angered by Janice’s quietness and her unwillingness to strengthen their relationship. However, she does not make an effort herself to understand why. Barb says to Janice: “You told us the facts. I don’t know one damn thing about you, the person” (36). Barb is annoyed and frustrated by Janice keeping to herself, she cannot understand her. Barb wants a strong relationship with her as sisters. For Janice, the sister relationship is too difficult and would rather prefer being friends. However, Barb does not acknowledge or accept Janice’s different views but expects Janice to want the same. Barb misunderstands the quietness of Janice and takes it personally, thinking that she wants to keep a distance from her and does not want to open up. Barb does not think of the opposite. What if Janice can’t

"All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them."

In The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, repetitive diction, direct address, and sensory imagery are used to portray Holden’s reverent tone when discussing his sister Phoebe and to emphasize Holden’s desire that his audience like and are impressed by Phoebe like he is. Holden, talking about how great his sister is, ends up revealing more about his childhood and how Phoebe is living a childhood much better than his own. While rambling on about Phoebe he says, “you’d like her” multiple times (68). Holden wants to ensure that his audience likes his sister as much as he does, which is why he utilizes repetition to emphasize his honest assessment of his sister. Holden knows he is a liar and in fact claims to be so; he often uses repetition

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as ten and eleven years old. Savvie and Carolina were kidnapped and molested, after six weeks of them being kidnapped by this perpetrator, they try to maintain a normal life but they keep getting flashbacks. When the perpetrator (Mr.Peter) returns to their lives he sends a letter from prison to the girls and asks them for forgiveness. These girls are put to the hardest test, will they let Mr.Peter still take advantage of them after they are

As Nick approaches Wilson’s garage, he finds Myrtle’s corpse “torn open” and “still damp with perspiration” (Fitzgerald 137). The spectators see “that her left breast” swings “loose like a flap” (Fitzgerald 137). Through Nick’s perspective, Fitzgerald uses indirect characterization to describe Myrtle’s corpse. The phrases “torn open”, “ still damp with perspiration”, and “left breast swing like a flap” means that Myrtle has a severe injury causing immediate death (Fitzgerald 137). Fitzgerald adds the word “still” to emphasize that Myrtle has lost her life, but her “perspiration”, her warmth still exists. Creating a grotesque, erry, and graphic characterization increases the impact, making the reader feel the environment and see the character for themselves, from Nick’s

Phoebe Winterbottom underwent many external conflicts during the course of a lifetime. In the realistic fiction novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Phoebe’s mother left and returned with the lunatic, Mike Bickle. But while her mother was missing, Phoebe confronted the police who didn’t listen to any of her ideas. In Walk Two Moons, Phoebe frequently struggled with external forces, which influenced her attitude and actions; this is proven by her mother’s disappearance, the lunatic, and other people ignoring her thoughts and feelings.

This quote explains that Phoebe views the Finney family as crazy and chaotic. It also shows how because of the controlled environment she has at home, the Finney’s uncontrolled home where everything is spontaneous seems uncivilized. We later learn that Mr. and Mrs. Finney participated in a three legged race at their

There’s a lots of questions for us to think about after finish this book and what we still questioning about that the myth that Amy Tan has left behind. In her story “The Moon Lady” from The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan shows the woman’s role and loneliness through the character Moon Lady, here’s the question. Why does Amy Tan demonstrates all these through Moon Lady and not any other female characters from Chinese myths or legends? Moon Lady were the reflection of Ying-Ying. Despite the fact that the story of Yin-Ying St. Clair kept her truth nature hidden while she raising her daughter, which shows how the mother and daughter relationship were getting further and pulling apart. In the other hand, Moon Lady was forever separated from her love one.

Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She had a job as a social worker, teacher, lecturer and she also wrote: “Elethia” which was written on 1981 which means she wrote “Elethia” when she was about 37 year of age. The story Elethia is about the afterlife of Uncle Albert from her view. “Elethia” is a pleasant young girl who works at a restaurant which was owned by the man that had an ancestor who was slave owners of a big plantation in a town. At this restaurant slavery still existed in some ways even after the law was passed, which the commandment ended the slavery, but it still existed in lots of our communities. However, the scatter of slavery was still in the community because of the presence of slave owners who has experience slavery in different ways. The slavery was so essential for them that Uncle Albert was stuffed as a worker and has been made the attraction for the people in the community to view in the restaurant. Even though the restaurant was named after him, the racism and slavery have still been an unchanging fact for American word.