Sal's Change In Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech

This reflects to Angelou’s quote as Sarah uses her experience to be better. To begin, after losing her mother she realizes that she is the only hope in saving her brother, which makes her more determined to get her brother. Sarah is alone as her mother is not protecting her anymore, as the author proposes, “that woman had little by little disappeared. She has become gaunt, and pale, and never smiled or laughed…. The girl felt like her mother was already dead” (66). Sarah feels that her mother is no longer in existence, she is physically there but mentally she is not, therefore Sarah is the only hope to save his brother. From this event, Sarah gains determination to save her brother for her mother, to get a chance to bring back the happy times she once had. In addition, Sarah also promises her brother that she will come back for him. According to the plot, Sarah says to her brother, “I'll come back for you later. I promise” (9). This promise drives Sarah to go back for her brother, as she it her determined not to brake it. In addition, the way she is treated by the police makes her determined to stand up to them and not show fear. This is proven when the author

In the novel, Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, the main character Sal changes the most due to external forces.

For example, each family member goes into Susie’s old room alone to grieve her death .They finally seem to realize that they need each other to get through this terrible time and accept that even though they will never have Susie back but can hope and try together to figure out what happened to Susie and who did it. Throughout the book they must learn to love each other again.The theme of grief is the most important theme in the novel. The Salmon family must learn to overcome the loss of Susie. Everyone grieves in their own way and finds a way to blame themselves or feel like its their own fault that the situation happened. Susie's family feels a sense of guilt for not being there for her. For example, Susie's father, Jack grieves for Susie.He feels like he wasn't there when his daughter needed him most which leads him to becomes obsessed with feeling responsible for finding the killer. Lindsey, Susie’s sister grieves over her sister by becoming a stronger person and not to talking about it. Susie’s also mourns her own death and the missed opportunity of getting to grow up, but more significantly, Susie grieves over the loss of living people. This theme allows us to understand the characters better.

Every event changes you even in the slightest way, on the other hand, changes are much more noticeable when there’s a bigger journey. In Joan Bauer’s, Hope Was Here, Hope and her aunt Addie, who is also her legal guardian, move to wisconsin after a disaster at their old diner. They work for a man named GT at the Welcome Stairways diner. GT soon becomes mayor but the leukemia got worse, and by the end, he passes away. Hope, the protagonist, changed from the beginning because now, she has a better appreciation for people around her and she’s overall stronger and kinder, not that she wasn’t kind before.

Sal is impacted and changed by her relationship with Mrs.Partridge. The messages left by Mrs.Partridge causes Sal to reflect on her own life. The text states, “ In the course of a lifetime what does it matter?”[ Creech 91]. This message influences Sal by, helping her realize

As the novel progresses, we realize that ironically Holden's alienation becomes the source of most of his pain throughout the book. Although he never realizes the fact that his pain is being derived from his isolation and lack of human interaction, Salinger places clues in the book that tell us that it is so. With the introduction of Sally Hayes, Salinger is able to craft a relationship that effectively depicts the conflict in Holden. It is loneliness that initially propels Holden into a date with Sally. However, during the date Holden's need for isolation returns, he "didn't even know why" he "started all that stuff with her. The truth is" he "probably wouldn't have taken her even if she wanted to go." Because Sally is unable to recognize the feelings on the "phoniness" of school that he projects, he becomes frustrated and uses a rampaging monologue to upset her and drive her away. The only time in the

This made me think about what I would do if my mother died. I believe I would probably be very sad, but I would also keep moving in life. I can’t just stop what I am doing because someone has died -- my aunt’s death already taught me that. Everyone has to go sometime; that time will come sooner or later -- it’s inevitable. Starting anew every time someone close dies is a bad idea, because one will never get anything done that way. (84

But when Sal saw, for herself, her mother’s tombstone, she finally agreed with herself that her mother was dead, this is a significant change in Sals

Important Settings for Sal “... I am a country girl at heart… and brave.” (Creech pg 1 and 12) This is how Sharon Creech, author of Walk Two Moons develops her main character, Sal. The protagonist in the story resists, travels, and returns to bybanks. With all of this, this helps Sal to grow throughout the novel.

Sal was fine going over to Phoebe and hanging out and going on miny adventures with her, but soon after the lunatic came and put these notes Sal and Phoebe started to wonder who could of placed them and started to freak out a little bit and so did the mom. Also what made this more believable is that the lunatic asked for Mrs.Winterbottom the first time he came a delivered this note. This is another big external force that changed Sal’s

Sal’s mom leaving has a toll on her life because she was just one person who helped Salamanca get ready for the world. The absence of Mrs. Hiddle affected Sal’s life so much that it was hard for Salamanca Hiddle to even say something that reminded her of her mom. A model of this particular action is on page 92 of Walk Two Moons, when Sal and Phoebe are talking about how they think Mrs. Cadaver chopped up her husband and all of the sudden she is reminded of picking blackberries with her mom. Sal felt like everything she did somehow revolved around her

Salinger displays that one’s happiness can be compromised due to the actions of your own self. Holden Caulfield lacked communication and saw everything as “phoney” or “depressing” which deselected happiness for him. Holden getting kicked out of school is one example; his lack of communication with the teachers and others put in him a miserable setting. Which resulted him in getting kicked out. Another example is when he went on his date with Sally Hayes. Everything was going swell until Holden started to speak about how he felt. Which flattened the setting of the date as Holden portrays himself “C’mon, lets get outa here,” I said. “You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth.” Boy, did she hit the ceiling when I said

“Walk two Moons” was written in first person, and was a book written by Sharon Creech. The book starts off with Sal and her trip to Idaho with her grandparents. On there way there Sal tells her grandparents about her friend Phoebe and the disappearance of her mom. In the telling of her story the tragic events of Sal’s own mother, there reactions are rather the same.

Cadaver spending time with my Dad? He should be spending time with me. These were Sals thought when Sal's dad was going into Mrs. Cadaver, but Sal didn't know what he saw in Mrs. Cadaver. Sal always suspected she was very suspicious literally, her name meant death! Meanwhile Phoebe winterbottom's mother was missing and, Mrs. Cadaver was first on her list.

“The Good Man” Ch. 18. “My mother was right when she said my father was good. He was always thinking little things to cheer up someone else. This nearly drove my mother crazy because I think she wanted to keep up with him, but it was not her natural gift like it was with my father” The bolded words were the cause of Sal’s mother to leave. She thought John Hiddle was too good for her and she needed to find her natural