Lawrence gilmore ea 2.1 Carol Bennett once said,’’only you can change your life no one can change it for you’’In the novel walk two moons,written by Sharon Creech .Sal encounters external forces that cause her to grow or change. The firs external force sal experiences, is between new environment and old environment.Sal and her dad has to move to a new environment on page 1 it says, ‘’Just over a year ago,my dad plucked me up like a weed and took all of are belongings,and drove 300 miles straight and stopped in front of a house in Euclid Ohio.’’The reason I chose this quote because it shows me that.Even sal moves to a new environment,she still has to face the same problems that happened in Bybanks Kentucky that happened to sal.