Old Ways Won't Open New Doors
Jim Rohn once said,”If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life, and it all begins with your very own power of choice.” This is especially true for the character Salamanca Hiddle. She goes through several changes that incredibly impacts her life, and changes her outlook on things. She also learns she had to choose how she reacted to those things. In the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, external forces significantly change the life of Salamanca Hiddle.
One of the most significant external force that causes Sal to change is when she goes to visit her mom's grave, because it allows Sal to accept and come to terms with …show more content…
Sal didn’t know that her mother was about to leave her and her father. On her mom's last day she kept asking Sal if she wanted to go on a walk with her. Sal wasn’t in the mood to go on a walk, so she continually said no to her. After a while, Sal got angry and she yelled at her mom, not realizing this would be her last memory with her. Sal says,” What I started doing was remembering the day before my mother left. I did not know it was to be her last day home. Several times that day, my mother asked me if I wanted to walk up in the fields with her. It was drizzling outside, and I was cleaning out my desk, and I just did not feel like going. ‘ Maybe later,’ I kept saying. When she asked me 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. I didn’t mean anything by it, but that was one of the last memories she had of me, and I wish I could take it back,”(page 97). This is a kid who in in the past had a great relationship with her mom. She lived in a home full of loving people, but after her mother left, and Sal had yelled at her, she felt bad. She felt as if her mother would always remember her yelling at her, and that she wouldn’t remember all the good …show more content…
This makes Sal feel like she was the reason for her little sisters death. When Sal's mom was pregnant, Sal didn’t want any siblings, she thought that if her mom had any kids that meant that she wouldn’t love her as much. As her mom was pregnant longer, Sal started to look forward to having a sibling. When her little sister died, Sal became sad, and she felt guilty for her death, because Sal had fallen out of a tree. Her mom had to carry her home from where she fell, before she had her baby. Sal says,”I started looking forward to seeing this baby. I hoped it would be a girl and I would have a sister. Together my father, my mother, and I decorated the nursery,”(page 136). This is a girl who was looking forward to having a little sister. She wanted someone that would look up to her, someone to climb trees with. She was even decorating a nursery for her. If she wasn’t excited about having her little sister then she wouldn’t be saying that she was looking forward to seeing her. If she didn’t want to have a sister she wouldn’t have decorated the nursery for her, Sal wouldn’t let her parents do it without her.Sal also says,”When the doctor carried the baby out of the room, I asked to see it. It had a pale blueish tinge and there were marks on its neck where the umbilical cured strangled it,”(page 138).This is a girl who hated the thought of not being the only child anymore. After
Jim Rohn once said,”If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life, and it all begins with your very own power of choice.” This is especially true for the character Salamanca Hiddle. She goes through several changes that incredibly impacts her life, and changes her outlook on things. She also learns she had to choose how she reacted to those things. In the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, external forces significantly change the life of Salamanca Hiddle.
One of the most significant external force that causes Sal to change is when she goes to visit her mom's grave, because it allows Sal to accept and come to terms with …show more content…
Sal didn’t know that her mother was about to leave her and her father. On her mom's last day she kept asking Sal if she wanted to go on a walk with her. Sal wasn’t in the mood to go on a walk, so she continually said no to her. After a while, Sal got angry and she yelled at her mom, not realizing this would be her last memory with her. Sal says,” What I started doing was remembering the day before my mother left. I did not know it was to be her last day home. Several times that day, my mother asked me if I wanted to walk up in the fields with her. It was drizzling outside, and I was cleaning out my desk, and I just did not feel like going. ‘ Maybe later,’ I kept saying. When she asked me 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. I didn’t mean anything by it, but that was one of the last memories she had of me, and I wish I could take it back,”(page 97). This is a kid who in in the past had a great relationship with her mom. She lived in a home full of loving people, but after her mother left, and Sal had yelled at her, she felt bad. She felt as if her mother would always remember her yelling at her, and that she wouldn’t remember all the good …show more content…
This makes Sal feel like she was the reason for her little sisters death. When Sal's mom was pregnant, Sal didn’t want any siblings, she thought that if her mom had any kids that meant that she wouldn’t love her as much. As her mom was pregnant longer, Sal started to look forward to having a sibling. When her little sister died, Sal became sad, and she felt guilty for her death, because Sal had fallen out of a tree. Her mom had to carry her home from where she fell, before she had her baby. Sal says,”I started looking forward to seeing this baby. I hoped it would be a girl and I would have a sister. Together my father, my mother, and I decorated the nursery,”(page 136). This is a girl who was looking forward to having a little sister. She wanted someone that would look up to her, someone to climb trees with. She was even decorating a nursery for her. If she wasn’t excited about having her little sister then she wouldn’t be saying that she was looking forward to seeing her. If she didn’t want to have a sister she wouldn’t have decorated the nursery for her, Sal wouldn’t let her parents do it without her.Sal also says,”When the doctor carried the baby out of the room, I asked to see it. It had a pale blueish tinge and there were marks on its neck where the umbilical cured strangled it,”(page 138).This is a girl who hated the thought of not being the only child anymore. After