Central Themes In Sharon Creech's In Walk Two Moon

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.

As Desmond Tutu once said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” In “Hunger Moon” by Jane Cooper, the speaker is showing that everyone during the Hunger Moon has hope and wants to make through it. The Hunger Moon was the name of the last moon in February when there was a lot of snow. The Hunger Moon rises and sets like any other type of moon, has a negative connotation, but when it ends it brings happiness.

“You can leave home all you want, but home will never leave you.” Sonsyrea Tate. Tate’s quote has distinct meaning depending on the individual who analyzes it. Many believe this quote to mean that a home is not a single place or object, but a concept or state of mind, which you have when you are around your family or loved ones. In the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck this idea of “home is where the heart is,” is shown throughout the book. One of the main characters, Ma, shows with great strength the concept of home is not a dwelling or place where you live, but a state of mind.

Miss Lottie’s old house symbolizes the deterioration of the entire nation during the Great Depression while the marigolds she plants represent hope in the face of despair. In detail, having Joey deciding to go to Miss Lottie’s house, Lizabeth describes the house as “...the most ramshackle of all [the] ramshackle homes.” (257). During the Great Depression, everyone has many money problems. So the fact that Miss Lottie’s house isn’t the best of all of the houses, shows how the Great Depression causes hardships. The Great Depression makes it so that the nation suffers in an ongoing poverty, which is why Miss Lottie’s house is very much broken. Furthermore, Lizabeth continues to describe the house when she states “a brisk wind might have blown it down… There it stood...a gray, rotting thing with no porch, no

Scrolling through the possible essays, it didn’t take long to find one that was eye catching. Walking While Black, by Garnette Cadogan, caught my attention for obvious reasons. The author takes a personal story that shows his interests-walking that is very current and understandable to most audiences. Cadogan depicts one of the terrors black men risk enduring everyday life in the United States. Cadogan’s storyline, quotes and informal language assist readers to reach a sense of connection with his experiences. The beginning of the essay takes us where his love of walking begins-his hometown Kingston, Jamaica. The storyline, starting from his late night strolls in his hometown, Cadogan walks us through how he ended up in the New York City

There is a lot of vocabulary words that confounded me, for example, tranquility, op-ed, lament, perennial, mundane, indignation, and viable. What I myself gained after reading the critique stemmed from Charles Krauthammer’s “The Moon We Left Behind”, just how he strived towards comparing space travel programs to the importance of spending the countries valuable tax dollars on social, educational, and crime. The key concept that I for one, can explain if I had an 8-year-old sister/brother stands in place as in life, sometimes your opinions are not always accurate and it will be up to you to show evidence. In addition, the economy today will try to knock you down, but it’s important to stay true to your values and do your best at improving your

Mary Engelbreit once said, “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it; change the way you think about it.” This quote is a strong connection with Sal, when she grew up she had tons of external forces that caused her to think about things in a different way than before. She never really knew how to feel sometimes because she didn’t know how they would turn out. Sal couldn’t just change her problems, but she could change the way she looked at them. In the book Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, external forces greatly impact Sal’s life growing up.

The novel Walk Two Moons shows many subplots and stories, however one is focused on much more than any of the others. This subplot shows Sal's story in Ohio, about her friends, about a woman with wild red hair, and about a lunatic.

Bybanks is many things to Sal. At the beginning of the book,it was her home or where her belongings are. In the book it says “No, that’s not true he didn’t bring the Chestnut tree, the Willow, the Maple, the hayloft or the swimming hole.”(Creech 1). At this point all Sal cares about at Bybanks is all her stuff is there. Sal also says when her dad showed her, her new house “Where is the bar? I said. The river, the swimming hole?”(2). Sal is very disappointed with her new home, because it has nothing her old home had. The house was also missing a key factor that is very important to Sal. “No trees?”(1). Trees are important in Sal’s everyday life. Even her middle name is Tree. Trees are so important to Sal that she even prays to them. Sal would be fine moving if she could take “her” belongings.

Many people are face with problem such as tragedies, corruption, crimes that can make you start questioning your faith and sometimes loose it. In the book Night by Ellie Wiesel, Eliezer and his father Shlomo had to face with the most horrible event of their lives “The Holocaust”. The rap singer Remedy had a song called ”Never Again” and it shows the reader the tragedies the Jews went through while they were in Auschwitz. The American rock band Creed and their song “One last Breathe” shows how Ellie felt when he separated from his mom and sister. Lastly, an American Rock Band with their song called: “Faithless” shows the reader how Ellie was losing his faith while he was in Auschwitz. He’d never seen such horrible things.

I think that the author included Parker in the story because it was a great way to show that these people were actually people and that they had emotions, they cared for others, and someone from a European descent found them to be better than ‘civilized’ society. However, there were also many instances of them being truly terrible to some people specially to older women (Gwynne, 106). Parker was also the mother of “the last chief of Comanches”, Quanah. She eventually married and had children with an Indian reported in a paper that surprised many people (Gwynne, 116). This is why when she was finally found by her brother she did not want to leave her family (Gwynne, 126). However eventually Parker was taken back to her white family with her daughter, and they both eventually died; Quanah

Throughout The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck, a controversial debate upon whether or not the novel is successful in praising the ideals of democracy and free choice occurs. Some readers claim this is not possible because the invaders are portrayed as sympathetic characters but I refuse to agree with this argument. Throughout the book, I saw evidence to support the fact that the novel is successful in praising democracy and free choice such as the inability for the invaders to take away the townspeople's personal actions, the importance of the individual, an idea upon which democracy is founded but also the pain that occurs when freedom is taken away.

In the essay “The Values of a Place” is about Rick Bass learning about valuing the place he is at. Rick and his wife left their home and searched for a new place to live. After driving through thunderstorms and snowstorms they found a valley, a blue-green valley hidden under heavy clouds. The valley allowed him to discover peace. As short summer and long winters passed he wondered, did a place with this kind of place exist for everyone. His body became to learn the rhythm and cycles of the wood around him. As soon as they had fallen in love with the valley, they got a forty room lodge. To him it was forty rooms of untold stories and rooms for each painting done. The car he had driven to the valley had broken down, but he still had a moving

Deanna Smith, a current Physics undergraduate student at UAH, opened her talk with her favorite quote, "Reach for the moon, even if you fall, you'll land among the stars." Her talk focused on her journey as a physics student. Deanna Smith provided useful advice for all physics students, starting with "Enjoy the fact that you are a Physics student." Physics students have many unique opportunities available to them just because they are physics students. For example, because she was a Physics student, she was able to participate in the Space Hardware Club and Cube Sats and the Joint Space Weather Summer Camp. The Joint Space Weather Summer Camp allowed her to travel to Germany to work the on sensors that would detect changes in the sun's ionosphere.

In the poem “The Morning Walk” written by Mary Oliver ”She writes about how different animals in different things say thank you. In another poem,“There Is No Word For Goodbye” written by Mary Tall Mountain, There is a girl Who asks her grandmother what the word is for goodbye in her native american language. Through the use of character emotion, Tall Mountain and Oliver both use vivid description to illustrate sensory imagery. This describes how in-depth these writing pieces will be.