...“Walk Two Moons” is a realistic fiction novel by Sharon Creech, and I read it for my book talk assignment. I thought this was a very interesting book because the setting shifts back and forth every chapter. What I mean by this is that in one chapter, the main character, Salamanca, is in a car traveling across the United States to go to Lewiston, Idaho, where her mother’s grave is located. In the next chapter, she flashes back to when she was in Euclid, Ohio before she left for this trip, and tells a story about her friend, Phoebe to her Grandparents who are also traveling with her. The main conflict in this story is presented while Salamanca is telling the story along their way: Phoebe’s mother disappears with a few notes left behind for her...
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...WTM essay Have you ever had a place that was so special to you but that special place was haunted by all these memories about someone? Well sal loved the farm but when her mom left,sal and her dad had to move because her mother's spirits where in that farm. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech,the farm was an important setting to sal because she has a tree that sings,her mom is haunting the farm, and sals mom has a chicken that she loved. The singing tree is a important setting to sal because it reminds her of her mom.In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech,”The sound was coming from somewhere in the top of one of those trees,and I thought,instantly,of the singing tree in Bybanks.”This is important to sal because the singing...
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...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....
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...In Walk Two Moons written by Sharon Creech, there are numerous instances where blackberries are mentioned by the main character, Salamanca. Salamanca or Sal, recently moved to Euclid, Ohio, bringing with her the memories of Bybanks, Kentucky, her mother, and blackberries. When invited to a new friend’s, Phoebe’s, house, Sal refuses the blackberry pie, but says, “I like blackberries very much.” Because of the memories attached to blackberries for Sal, blackberries symbolize Sal’s mother. In ne recollection Sal’s mother is walking in a field. Sal remembers writing in the school-required journal, “She popped the blackberries into her mouth. Then she looked all around…I thought I could detect as from a small dark stain, as from a blackberry kiss.” The blackberry kiss could signify Sal’s family’s love for each other and their community. During a dinner with Phoebe’s family, Sal remember vividly she and her mother walking “around the rims of the fields and pastures in Bybanks, picking blackberries. We did not pick from the bottom of the vine or from the top…for the rabbits…for the birds. The ones at people-height were for people.” This illustrations how much Sal and her mother care for animals, not just...
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