Walk Two Moons Character Analysis

In the book “A long walk to water” authored by linda sue park,salva has to go on a personal journey to survive and it impacted him majorly. What is a personal journey? One might ask. Well a personal journey is when someone or something goes on a journey and on their journey they go along and meet allies and friends,they have struggles or obstacles,and they change (mostly in a good way) throughout the story.One lesson this story suggests is that “Sometimes the pain and struggles that you encounter will help you succeed”. In the story “A long walk to water”. Salva went on a personal journey and it impacted him drastically. He had to get away from the war in sudan and he met many people that helped him, he had many conflicts and struggles,and he even witnessed his uncle passing away. But when things were at his worst he found a miracle.

Sing Down the Moon, a book written by Scott O’Dell is about a young Navajo girl named Bright Morning who is tending her flock of sheep with her friend, Running Bird, when they spot Spanish slavers coming toward them. They are both captured and taken to a village. There they are sold to different families as servants. Running Bird and Bright Morning later escape with another Native American servant, Nehana. Soon after returning home to their tribe, the Long Knives make everyone leave their homes, and take almost nothing other than water and food. Suddenly the Navajo tribe is ambushed by the Long Knives and forced to walk to an Apache/Navajo reservation.

Is on page 253, were the author wrote, “on the tombstone, beneath her name and the dates of her birth and death, was an engraving of a maple tree, ands it was only thean, when I saw the stone and her name-Chanhassen “Sugar” Pickford Hiddle-and the engraving of the tree, that I knew, by myself and for myself, that she wasn't coming back.” This shows that seeing everything her mom saw on the road trip gave Sal peace in her heart that it wasn't her mom's fault for not coming back. And that the whole time she was wanting to bring her mom back she wouldn't have been able to. This external force changed Sal the most because now she doesn't try to say it was her dad's fault foes her mother's leaving. It also changed her because she doesn't think about the bring her mom

Sal’s mom leaves her without warning that causes internal conflict. Sal becomes mad at herself cause she thinks it’s her fault that her mom left. “If I hadn't climbed that tree and my mom Cary me maybe the baby would still be alive and my mom would have never left”.This causes Sal to grow when she now knows it’s not her fault her mom left her and her father.

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

While Watchman and Raisin come from different backgrounds they are similar because they take place during the same time period that deals with gender roles and family. During this time in the 1950’s it was not usual for the women to stay home and the men be the head of the house. Although when times were rough family is always there for support.

“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)”

faced with another one, and endures it with more strength and courage than the last one.

In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, We meet Nya and Salva and we learn that Nya is walking for water. Then we learn that Salva is running away from the war between nuer and dinka Salva keeps on running until he runs into some rebels Salva saw that he wasn’t the only one who ran into the rebels he tried to find his family but there was no luck. Then the rebels took all the men salva was left alone again and he started to run again he ran found another group he passed out and found his uncle. Then Salva still was running he got to a refugee camp he signed up to go to america but it was no luck he practice english and when he was done he was about to learn volley ball but people said that Salva gets to go to new york. Then he

Nine men collapsed on the sand one made a small desperate motion, another tried to raise his hand but fell back down. Five men lost to the desert that day, but Salva a young boy in Linda Sue Park's book A Long Walk To Water, never lost the fight.

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

“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins,” -Sharon Creech. Sals development through her life was mainly because of the points in her life where she accepted a challenge instead of denying it. In Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, the author develops the theme of acceptance through Sals characterization, internal and external conflict, and the plot of the story. During the story, Sals characterization contributes to the author’s theme of acceptance. The author uses Sal’s characterization to express her feelings when she says, “I did not think we would ever leave, and yet I did not want to leave.

In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Salamanca Tree Hiddle has changed by many internal and external forces. Sal’s attitude before she accepts her mother’s death is very worrisome and angry. For example, Sal talks about being worried about car accidents.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger wants to be a “real man”. His dream is to become successful in business and make his family rich. However, when all his money is stolen, he becomes very pessimistic, abandoning the ideas of morality and dignity. At the end of the play, his son Travis inspires him to value his family’s pride over materialism. Over the course of the play, Walter’s view of manhood changes from someone wealthy and successful to a person who has pride and believes in human dignity.

In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family is trying to achieve the American Dream, which is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American”(cite dictionary.com). The Youngers are a black family living in a poor part of Chicago. They inherit ten thousand dollars because Mama’s husband died. Mama is the matriarch of the Younger family. Each family member has their own idea about how to use this money to fulfill their dreams, and the play uses the decisions of the family members and other characters to show the reader that people’s actions are not always motivated by what they appear to be. Mama wants to use the money to buy a house in a white neighborhood, because she thinks it is a better environment for her family than their current living conditions and will benefit her family. Although there are a number of people in A Raisin in the Sun who appear too want to help the Younger family, Mama shows through her decision to buy the house that she is the only person that is looking out for the best interests of her family.