In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Salamanca Tree Hiddle or Sal, a 13-year-old girl from Bybanks, Kentucky (and the main character) has to deal with her mother leaving. Sal and her grandparents take a road trip retracing her mother’s path to Lewiston, Idaho, where she’s “resting peacefully”. (5)” Sal goes on a road trip to bring her mother back home on her birthday (in 7 days). While on the road trip, Sal tells the story of her and Phoebe, a girl with a wild imagination from Sal’s new neighborhood she and her dad moved to after her mother left. Phoebe’s mother, Norma Winterbottom, or Ms. Winterbottom disappeared, or so Phoebe thought. While on this road trip with her grandparents, they visit many landmarks, including the Mississippi …show more content…
In her world, no one was ordinary. People were either perfect, like her and her father, or, more often, they were lunatics or ax murderers. (22)” Sal also says Phoebe could convince her of anything, especially about Ms. Cadaver. None of this helps Ms. Cadaver’s reputation towards Sal, but what makes it worse is when Phoebe tells Sal something horrifying. In Sal’s new neighborhood, one of her new neighbors is an elderly woman named Ms. Partridge. This happens to be Ms. Cadaver’s mom. So Ms. Cadaver must have changed her last name, so Phoebe asks Sal about Mr. Cadaver, what happened to him? Phoebe thinks she knows, this is what she tells Sal, “I think maybe she killed Mr. Cadaver and chopped him up into pieces and buried him in the backyard. (31)” This surprised Sal as she was not expecting something so dreadful. As we go through the story, Sal starts to believe Phoebe more and more, and not like Ms. Cadaver. Part of the reason is because of Phoebe's wild imagination, and neither of them has thought about other possibilities for Mr. …show more content…
Because of everything around Ms. Cadaver, Pheobe and Sal suspect it's her. It could not have been a kidnapping though because she left pre-made meals in the freezer, “plastic containers, each with a note attached. (133)” Prudence read them aloud “Broc-Len-Cas, 350, 1hr” and “Mac-Che,325,45 min.” To make it even worse, Ms. Cadaver Phoebe’s mom sent a note to Ms. Cadaver. The girls both think that it is Ms. Cadaver. So, they break into her house. They don’t make it very far until they get caught by Ms. Partridge. She doesn’t make a big deal out of it, but Sal and Phoebe weren’t expecting it. They were both a little scared. By this point, Sal is skeptical of Pheobe, some of her choices are made only because her mom left. Phoebe was very rude to everyone, before and after the break-in. A little while later, after Pheobe’s mother had returned home, Sal and Ms. Cavader talked. The talk is about how her dad met Ms. Cadaver. While on the road trip, Sal and Gramps are sitting in the car heading to Coeur d’Alene, and Gramps is asleep. Sal whispers in Gramps's ear, “She looks a little grey, doesn't she? (251)” As soon as they get to Coeur d’Alene, they race to
Literary Analysis Essay: Walk Two Moons The concept of the Hero's Journey is common in literature. The Hero’s Journey includes specific stages like the Call to Adventure, Refusal, and Return. Sharon Creech's novel, Walk Two Moons, puts the Hero's Journey into the narrative of Salamanca Tree Hiddle, a young girl dealing with the loss of her mother and her family’s other struggles. Through Sal's journey, she faces the challenges of accepting her mother’s death and learns about herself as a young person
Do you know what it's like to feel abandoned? In the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech there are a lot of themes like independency, family and many others. The ones that I like the most that I feel are the best and most represented are, motherhood and abandonment. I feel like in the book Sal is the most affected by these themes. On the start of the book Sal and her father moved to Euclid, Ohio after her mother’s death. After that event Sal went through a lot of mixed feelings, she was feeling
“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” This is a common Native American proverb, and also a quote from the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech. This is telling you to look at a situation from someone else’s point of view before making a decision. By doing this, you become inadvertently more sympathetic and compassionate towards other people. Many times in To Kill a Mockingbird, the main characters: Scout, Jem, and Atticus, look at something from another person’s shoes
4 Walk Two Moons Expository Essay4 4 In the Novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the character Salamanca has had internal and external forces that has affected Sal, Phoebe, and Margaret. In the book, Walk Two Moons Salamanca has faced many challenges internal and external forces, and we are going to take a look to see these forces, so put on your seatbelt and get ready for the journey. 4 4First we are going to talk about how Salamanca’s Forces have affected Phoebe. “I didn’t know it then,
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. Someone once said, “Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on” This can so easily be connected with Sal, we right noThe three major themes that show up throughout the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, are you never know the worth
Walk Two Moons vs. The Guest Don’t judge someone until you really know them is a common theme taught in the novel Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, and the short story “The Guest”, by Uma Krishnaswami. Even though the same life lesson is taught in these stories, they are taught through different ways. Sharon Creech, the author of Walk Two Moons, teaches the lesson of don’t judge someone until you really know them by the characters’ thoughts, feelings, and words. As Mr. Birkway goes over to Phoebe’s
Walk Two Moons Study Guide Devin Kim Walk Two Moons Chapters 1-11 Answers 1. The reasons Gramps and Sal’s father give Sal for going on the trip are seeing the country helping Gramps and Gram with reading maps, and keeping them in line. In Walk Two Moons, it states, “Gramps had said, “We’ll see the whole ding-dong country!”’ (pg. 4), “My father said that Gram couldn’t read maps worth a hill of beans, and that he was grateful that I had agreed to go along and help them find their way.” (pg. 4-5)
A short literary analysis of Maxine Kingston's classic “No Name Woman” As part of the first generation of Chinese-Americans, Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her struggle to distinguish her cultural identity through an impartial analysis of her aunt’s denied existence. In “No Name Woman,” a chapter in her written memoirs, Kingston analyzes the possible reasons behind her disavowed aunt’s dishonorable pregnancy and her village’s subsequent raid upon her household. And with a bold statement
“trivial,” and vice versa. For example, Algernon thinks it “shallow” for people not to be “serious” about meals, and Gwendolen believes, “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” For Wilde, the word earnest comprised two different but related ideas: the notion of false truth and the notion of false morality, or moralism. The moralism of Victorian society—its smugness and pomposity—impels Algernon and Jack to invent fictitious alter egos so as to be able to escape the