Themes In Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech

In the novel, Sal learns that if she didn't accept her mother’s death she would be devastated but instead she accepted her mom’s death. On page 254, “I asked if I could sit there for a little while, because I wanted to memorize the place. I wanted to memorize the grass and the trees, the smells and the sounds.” Another quote that goes with her accepting her mother’s death. On page 254, “I kissed the willow.

Thesis Statement: Three major themes that show up throughout the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, are you never know the worth of water in until the well is dry, as well as, sometimes you have to accept even the worst things in life, and finally, we're all only human.

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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.

Between the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Chinese population had expanded dramatically from having only about 55 people to 151,000. Most of the population has immigrated to California as the livelihood in China had became awfully difficult for them by sacrificing most of their valuables in order to improve their lives. The majority kept the Chinese culture with them and expanded it through establishing Chinatown, a community full of Chinese influence, with their presence in a new environment. In the remarkable novel, Outrun the Moon, Stacey Lee describes a teenage girl named Mercy Wong with a unique historical backdrop who chases after her dream in becoming an entrepreneur to create a better life for her own family. This book is astounding

To be lost is to lose all hope. To lose all your aspirations. To surrender all your dreams. Just because your lost, it doesn’t mean that you will not be found. In Amy Tan’s “The Moon Lady,” Ying- Ying, the main protagonist, fights with herself and with her culture. Ying-ying is longing to be found — to be reunited with her family — and with herself. At a youthful age, Ying-ying’s childish belief in personal fate and destiny later on led to a rule of passivity and listlessness. Ying-ying realizes that she has passed on to her daughter the same indifference and passivity that she has experienced growing up. Just like a broken bond, Ying-ying tries to sew her life back together, but she uses her past pains to tear it again. Tan argues that just because the strands of your life are torn, it doesn’t mean that you can’t sew your life together again.

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In the book it says “ She’s in the fields, the air, the barn, the trees.”(109) In the text it is talking about Sal’s mom. Everywhere in Bybanks Sal thinks of her mother. Sal just can not get her mind off her mother “It was a complete jumble of things, and when I tried to write about those things, I ended up writing about my mother.” (116). Sal must really desperately miss her mother if she writes about her. Sal even realizes the connection. “ because everything was connected to her.” (116). Sal finally realizes it. Sal loves Bybanks because it reminds her of her

Abandonment is a feeling known to many people. There are different types and levels of abandonment. In The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, many characters have been introduced to the feeling of abandonment. Abandoning or being abandoned is constant in the novel and Kingsolver uses it to link all of the characters together.

Sal shows self-determination throughout the story by making her way to Lewiston to meet her mother on her birthday. Sal [Salamanca] explains her determination, “But I had to decided to go, and I would go and I had to be there by my mothers birthday”(Creech 6). Sal show self-determination by her wanting to be at Lewiston on her mother 's birthday. Her determination is what keeps her going as well as setting goals. As she set the goal and completed it at the end of the story by her own. Sal describes, “I had driven from Coeur d’Alene very carefully”(Creech 252). Sal was so self-determined when her grandmother go sick they stopped and time was passing. That her grandfather gave her the keys of his car for her to finish her journey, which was to be on time for her mother 's birthday. She drove from Coeur d’Alene to lewiston on her own just to be on time for her mother 's birthday. These examples show Sal 's self-determination and how she grows up through the journey and obstacles she encountered and overcome them at a young age,No other younger person would think of or would do as she achieve her goal.Sals compassion through the journey also shows her growing up

Jennings knew it was best to hide his hurt from his mother, so Jennings was very committed to caring for his mother. On page 130 after Sal leaves Jennings, he gets right back to work with his mother. “‘All right’ I gave Sal a hug and he left. I fed mom some soup. ‘Want me to read to you?’ I asked ‘That would be nice, dear.’”

“My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mom left us one April morning” (Creech 3).Sal went through tough times. In the book, Walk Two Moons, By Sharon Creech, Sal the main character, goes through tough times when her mother disappears, When she moves to ohio, and when she leaves Bybanks. Sal’s view of Bybanks, Kentucky is important to sal because she made a lot of memories there. My first piece of evidence is, “I’m a country girl at heart, and belong at this fro farm.(1)”

Surely, after she left Sal and her dad, she passed away in a bus accident. Sal changed right after she found out. Sal became less open and more protective of her dad. But there was good news….Sal and her dad moved to Euclid, Ohio, and there, Sal made new friends and started to open up. She eventually let Ben (a guy she likes) hold her hand without flinching. Sal came a long way by just moving away from all the sad and heartbreaking memories of her mom. No matter what Sal does, her mom will give her good or bad memories, that's just how it

If you were to live in a house all of your life and suddenly moved miles, even states away would you be sad? I mean you grew up there all of your family and friends are there. That's kinda what had happened to Sal when her mother left and she was forced to move far away. In the novel walk two moons by Sharon Creech , Sal’s house in Bybanks kentucky is important to her because she grew up there, it’s the last place she saw her mom, and the singing tree is there

To begin with, S.E. Hinton shows the theme of abandonment to inform that people want to fit in a social group because people need to have support during hard times in their lives. S.E. Hinton shows how Ponyboy Curtis had a fear of being left out although most parents don’t really care what their kids do. “Johnny’s parents didn’t care if he came home or not” (49) This shows that Johnny, Ponyboys friend has parents who physically,