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    The two stories Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech and “The Guest” retold by Uma Krishnaswami share a similar theme of don't judge a person till you know them. Even though the two stories share a similar theme, the authors tell it in different ways. In the first novel Walk Two Moons the author shows the common theme through the characters thoughts, and feelings. For instance,”Like Mr. Cadaver-as I told you before. Maybe Mr.Birkway helped her chop up her husband and bury him and maybe they were getting

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    “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

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    “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins” (Creech, pg.47) Sal goes on a journey through Ohio and Coeur D’Alene to Lewiston, she begins to realize things, but also understands her mother’s perspective. In “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech, Sal demonstrates that she understands, realizes, and accepts the situations that occur. First in Bybanks, where Sal lives most of her life and where all of her family memories take place. Sal says, “I have lived most of my thirteen years

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    novel Walk two moons , by Sharon creech , and the short story , “ The Guest” retold by Uma Krishnaswami . Both of the stories reveal the theme of not judging people until you know them. Even though those two stories illustrate the same theme to their audiences , they each go about the lesson in different ways . Walk two moons

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    Have you ever felt paranoid thinking your family is perfect? Or having a family member leave you? Well if you have, then you aren’t the only one. In the novel, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Phoebe changed through internal and external forces when her mom left. She started changing when her mom left. which made her imagine, and get paranoid if phoebe’s mom was going back home, but then her dad got a call that her mom was coming back so they cleaned the whole house,to look professional.

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    depression they meet more characters who set a very eerie tone to the young girls and are placed under some very foul labels, undergoing the truth and the major importance of those people. A vital theme in the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in

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    . Walk two Moons VS the Sing of Beaver The Walk Two Moons tells the story of Sal which is 13-year-old. Sal is a high-spirited country girl deeply troubled by the loss of her mother 's. She gains strength from spending time in natural settings and from her Native American heritage, and many of her memories and experiences center on trees, rivers, wild berries, and mountains. Although she is rebellious and often skeptical of adults, she is open-minded and deeply compassionate. Beside that she also

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    In the novel Walk Two Moons when the author, Sharon Creech writes “The whispers no longer said, hurry, hurry or, rush, rush. They now said, slow down, slow down…. It seemed some sort of warning.” (pg. 66) she is using foreshadowing to create a sense of foreboding. It seems clear that something bad is going to happen when Sal finds her mother. However, it is not clear what could happen. There are a few possibilities: Maybe something could happen to Grams because she just got

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    Why do people spend time worrying about things in the past, when they have so much future ahead of them? In the award winning novel, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, a letter is dropped off on the Winterbottom’s front porch from an anonymous person: “In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?” Using this metaphor, Creech tries to show us that some things in life matter, and some things don’t. It’s such a short life, and it is important not to waste it worrying about events that occurred in

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    In the book Walk Two Moons there is a girl, her name is Sal, she has many things that change her life which are the internal and external conflict. For example she met someone who then starts to like, and Gram is in the hospital, she has many feelings about this and it changes her life, but these are just the few internal and external conflicts that change her life. Here are some of the internal conflicts that Sal has. She changes from these internal conflicts because of her feelings. The first internal

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