Walk Two Moons Character Analysis

“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)”

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 the book walk two moons by Sharon creech Sal is affected internal and external.The forces sal to change first her mother leaves to Idaho random without warning.Then sal’s dad takes her from the only home she has known and moves them to Euclid ohio.Finally sal finds out that her mother will not be coming back cause she died.

An external force that caused Sal to change, is her sister passing away. Sal fell out of a tree when her mom was supposed to have a baby later that day. Sal broke her leg and had to be carried by her mom across the long fields. Soon after that, her mom had her baby and she was dead. After that event, Sal changed in her social life and feelings. She became more scared and jumpy and thought that she killed her sister, which made her afraid of pregnant women. With all that guilt, Sal thought she might have been the cause of her mother leaving.

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.

Along her journey, Sal endured many internal forces. For example, on page 208, it states “All those messages invaded my brain and affected the way I looked at things”. I think this is significant to the story because it proves that Sal grew and changed because of the messages. It made her think more of others, and it made her realize the truth of the Cadaver conspiracy. Another internal force that made Sal change was found on page 262. It states “We walked in everybody’s moccasins,

One way that Sal changes internally and externally is by moving out of her childhood home. She changes because she moves to her new house and it is different from her old house Sal was upset because she didn't want to move to the new house out of her childhood home I can infer this because in the book it says “No trees?...This is where we are going to live?” this quote shows that she is unhappy that she is moving because it is not the same as her old home and what she is use to.

“Gramps says that i’m a country girl at heart, and that is true.” (Creech 1) Sal has a country heart due to the love of nature she has experienced throughout her childhood. In Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech shows how Sal is connected to Bybanks, Kentucky, by connecting her childhood to nature, reflecting on how new experiences relate to the past, and reliving memories.

At the beginning of the novel Salva had to experience loss. Salva knew that once he got out of his classroom and ran into the bushes that, there was a good chance that he may not see his family again. Salva also knew that if he didn't stay positive he wouldn't see his family again. So Salva has hope and enthusiasm, which made it easier for him to continue on and have that feeling that one day he is going to see his family again. If Salva didn't have hope or persistence he wouldn't have been successful.

Phoebe Winterbottom underwent many external conflicts during the course of a lifetime. In the realistic fiction novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Phoebe’s mother left and returned with the lunatic, Mike Bickle. But while her mother was missing, Phoebe confronted the police who didn’t listen to any of her ideas. In Walk Two Moons, Phoebe frequently struggled with external forces, which influenced her attitude and actions; this is proven by her mother’s disappearance, the lunatic, and other people ignoring her thoughts and feelings.

One of the most significant external forces that changed Sal was when she saw her mother's grave because now she knows that her mother is dead and won’t come back to bybanks with her. Sal and her family lived in bybanks, until Sal’s mother had a baby and it died, so that

Internal conflict revolves around fear that one can obtain as Winston Smith had to face the party. He wanted to maintain his values, which is his freedom of thought, trust, expression, along with the truth, as he faces conflict with the party, fighting against it to keep what he believes. Winston believes Julia is someone else, but is the exact opposite of what he believes.

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.

In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry, she is able to take us to place to see what it was like for an African American family to survive in the mid-twentieth century. The play details how the main characters are going through an evolving social and economic position, as well as the evolving gender roles. Hansberry uses the characterization of Beneatha, Ruth, and Walter in order to show the expectations and assigned gender roles for the characters in the story. In short, Beneatha is depicted as a woman who is challenging gender norms and expectations upheld by her family, whereas Ruth is seen as an example of a submissive housewife fulfilling her expected duties. Using “A Raisin in the Sun,” as well as “Marxists

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.