Literary Analysis for Walk Two Moons
In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Salamanca Hiddle grows and changes as a person by internal and external conflicts. At First, Sal says that Euclid, Ohio has small houses, almost no trees and no barn. Sal is unhappy about where she lives and how she wants her mom to come back. Sal doesn’t know why her mom would leave her and Sal gets confused by that. Another thing that Sal was thinking about was that she might lose her dad to Margaret Cadaver. Initially Sal blames herself and said that it was her fault that her mom left but then slowly realizes that it’s not her fault. Sal thought that when her mom came to help her, something may have happened to the baby. “It wasn’t your fault, Sal it wasn’t …show more content…
“You mustn’t think that” (138). “I didn’t believe him”(97) While Sal was cleaning out her desk Sal’s mother asked her if she wanted to go walk up in the fields with her, Sal didn’t feel like going so she kept saying no, Sal thinks that when she said that it could of made her down. “Several times that day, my mother asked me if I wanted to walk up in the fields with her”(97). It was drizzling outside, and I was cleaning out my desk, and I just did not feel like going. “Maybe later,” I kept saying. (97).”When she asked for about the tenth time, I said, “No! I don’t want to go”Why do you keep asking me?” I don’t know why I did that”(97). At last, when Sal was talking about Phoebe’s story and how she wanted to tell Phoebe that maybe her mother had gone looking for something and maybe she was unhappy. When Sal said that Gramps and Gram said, “You mean it had nothing to do with Peeby?”(164). Right after that Sal realized something, “They didn’t say anything, but there was something in that look that suggested I had just said something important”(164).”For the first time, it occurred to me that maybe my mother’s leaving had nothing whatsoever to do with
In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Salamanca Hiddle grows and changes as a person by internal and external conflicts. At First, Sal says that Euclid, Ohio has small houses, almost no trees and no barn. Sal is unhappy about where she lives and how she wants her mom to come back. Sal doesn’t know why her mom would leave her and Sal gets confused by that. Another thing that Sal was thinking about was that she might lose her dad to Margaret Cadaver. Initially Sal blames herself and said that it was her fault that her mom left but then slowly realizes that it’s not her fault. Sal thought that when her mom came to help her, something may have happened to the baby. “It wasn’t your fault, Sal it wasn’t …show more content…
“You mustn’t think that” (138). “I didn’t believe him”(97) While Sal was cleaning out her desk Sal’s mother asked her if she wanted to go walk up in the fields with her, Sal didn’t feel like going so she kept saying no, Sal thinks that when she said that it could of made her down. “Several times that day, my mother asked me if I wanted to walk up in the fields with her”(97). It was drizzling outside, and I was cleaning out my desk, and I just did not feel like going. “Maybe later,” I kept saying. (97).”When she asked for about the tenth time, I said, “No! I don’t want to go”Why do you keep asking me?” I don’t know why I did that”(97). At last, when Sal was talking about Phoebe’s story and how she wanted to tell Phoebe that maybe her mother had gone looking for something and maybe she was unhappy. When Sal said that Gramps and Gram said, “You mean it had nothing to do with Peeby?”(164). Right after that Sal realized something, “They didn’t say anything, but there was something in that look that suggested I had just said something important”(164).”For the first time, it occurred to me that maybe my mother’s leaving had nothing whatsoever to do with