Comparison Between 'Walk Two Moons And The Guest'

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Koby Bourgeois
Unit 2 EA. 1

The passage “The Guest” retold by Uma Krishnaswami and the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech both have a similar theme that is told through the character’s actions, words, or thoughts. The theme is don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.

In Walk Two Moons the theme is shown through the character’s thoughts. A girl named Sal has some thoughts about a lady named Mrs. Cadaver being a murderer and burying her husband under a rhododendron bush. This shows that Sal is judging Mrs. Cadaver without getting to know her good enough to know that Mrs. Cadaver is not a murderer. In chapter 33 of Walk Two Moons it stated that “... and affected the way I looked at things.” This reveals that after

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