One of the themes that keeps being brought up is you can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can stop them from nesting in your hair.
This quote is brought up multiple times in the story after Phoebe’s mother left. It was used …show more content…
Sal’s mom moved to Lewiston Idaho right before Sal and her father moved to Euclid Ohio. She died at the end of her trip when the bus she was in fell off the side of a cliff and fell into a ditch. Sal could not believe it. No matter how hard she tried she kept telling herself her mother was coming back. Sal finally figures out after doing something crazy to see her mother. On page 247 the author stated: “I started the car, backed it up, and drove around the parking lot, stopped, and turned off the engine. I counted the money in my pocket and looked at the map once more.”(247) This definitely shows that love makes you do crazy things, because Sal literally drove a car on a steep road and then down a path on the side of a cliff to see a.grave stone. She cares about her mother that much, that as a middle schooler she was willing to face her biggest fear to see her mother’s grave. That is such a big crazy thing, and it’s an even bigger thing for sal to do it because she has a fear of driving or even being in a moving car …show more content…
Wether it’s the birds of sadness nesting in you're hair, people walking two moons in you're moccasins, Sal driving down a cliff for her mother’s grave, or Phoebe not knowing her mothers true worth, there our a lot of themes in this story, and the fun part is relating them to real life. For example, walking two moons in other people’s moccasins is a thing that can be related to real life. It means that you shouldn’t judge people because you don’t know what is going on in their lives. With the birds of sadness it is talking about how being sad is unavoidable but letting it take you over isn’t. With the You never know what you have until it’s gone, well that’s true for many things. Also love makes people do crazy things means that love can drive people to act different or do something crazy. Okay, I’m done, but I have one request. Try thinking about some of the themes I’ve mentioned or just any themes period. If you start seeing a positive trend follow it, and make yourself better by learning and living by the life lessons that the characters of Walk Two Moons