The Guest By Sharon Creech Analysis

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Sharon Creech the author of Walk Two Moons and Uma Krishnaswami, the author of “The Guest,” show the theme “ Don’t Judge someone until you really know them.” The authors both show it in a different way
In Walk Two Moons she use it in the character Phebe. Phebe is a character who thinks everything is this just by how they look. But when they found out the truth about the person she had judge she was really sorry. But, when Sal knew she had a long talk because this person was the only person who survived the bus crash, she even cried.
In the guest the rich man was looking at the cloths. When he dressed up in his good clothes they let him into the dinner and then he feed his clothes instead of himself because they were looking at the cloths and

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