Walk Two Moon Phoebes Character Traits

Phoebe's Personality In the novel, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Phoebe, whose family is bent on being respectable and tidy, faces many challenges. Phoebe's mom left her family because she was not appreciated. Phoebe's mom did all the cooking and cleaning and took care of the children, but to her family, she was just an invisible maid. Phoebe thought her mom was happy with her life, so she did not help her or talk to her. Phoebe was extremely affected by this. She does not believe that her mom left her on purpose. She thinks a young boy kidnapped her mom and took her away. Later in the story, she finds out the truth. Phoebe's imaginative, dramatic, and judgmental characteristics affect her journey to bring back her mom. At the beginning of the …show more content…

Phoebe made this assumption without any knowledge of who Mrs. Cadaver really is. Phoebe is also imaginative when it comes to the lunatic that comes to her house to ask questions. She kept saying to Sal, Do you think he has a gun in his pocket?, Do you see a knife?. 42. She was saying this because her mom said that she doesn't like it when random people come to her house. Phoebe evolved this into calling everyone they don't know a lunatic. Sal also catches on and thinks the young man is a lunatic that is going to kill them. Her mom's anxiety spread to Phoebe in the form of imagination and caused her to think everyone is a lunatic. As Sal tells the story of Phoebe to her grandparents, the reader learns that Phoebe is very dramatic whether it's for good or bad. When Phoebe's mom leaves home, Phoebe thinks she got kidnapped by the lunatic. She is so convinced that her mom did not leave her that she goes around the house to find evidence that she put up a fight to stay. I am going to look for clues, evidence that mother was dragged away by the