In the novel Walk Two Moons, two stories are going on at once: Sal’s story and Phoebe’s story. The stories are similar and different in many ways. Both characters and the reader learn important life lessons throughout the course of the book. Most of these come from mysterious notes that Phoebe keeps finding on her doorstep throughout the story. When Sal’s mom leaves, there is a lot of feelings from Sal and her mom. Since Sal and her dad were always being so nice, Sal’s mom felt like she wasn’t living up to their standard, although she says she just needed to “discover herself.” Phoebe’s mom simply wanted to go see her son, Mike, who had been adopted. Both Sal and Phoebe’s mother's ran away but their actions were completely different. Phoebe goes into a frenzy saying that her mom was “Captured by the lunatic,” but Sal thinks that her mom would have stayed if she loved her more. So while the situation is the same, the reactions are completely different. …show more content…
Other people that she knows go through the same loss, and people she loves die. As a result of this, Sal begins to realize that although death is a terrible thing, but it is a natural part of life and by the end of the story she learns to accept loss. Evidence of this is that at the beginning of the story, Sal says: “It isn’t normal to die. It isn’t normal. It’s terrible.” but towards the end of the story, she accepts that her mom is dead by saying “She isn’t actually gone at all. She’s singing in the trees.” Another thing that changes in Sal is that when her mom was there, she felt like a mirror to her mom’s feelings, but then she realizes that she can have her own feelings too. At the start she says “If mom was happy, I was happy.” By the end she thinks: “I am happy at this moment in time. I was surprised that I knew all this by myself, without my mother
Sal’s journey reflects that of a heroine; the journey helps her discover who she really is and she comes home to share what she has learned afterward. Sal explains, “When my mother had been there, I was like a mirror. If she was happy, I was happy. If she was sad, I was sad. For the first few days after she left, I felt numb, non-feeling. I didn’t know how to feel”(Creech 37). When her mother left, Sal had no reflection. She was forced to start experiencing her feelings independently. Sometimes to start feeling again, one needs to leave what is familiar to them. The journey she took healed this numbness she felt. Furthermore, her identity and feelings were given context through Phoebe’s story and shaped by her own reflections of the
One of the main themes from Walk Two Moons is there’s always hope. In the book two of the main characters are Sal and Phoebe. They both experience a big change in their lifetime. Both of their mothers leave That caused them to say stuff that wouldn’t do if there moms where there. In the book Sal says,
Shortly after Dolores' high school graduation, Dolores' mother is killed when she is hit by a semi truck. Dolores blames herself and reasons that her mother's death must be Dolores' punishment for being a horrible daughter. She recalls what her mother said on the night of her death: "You've made me so ... tired" (135). She remembers how awful she was to her mother during the months before her death (138). She feels that she should have died instead of her mother. She bargains with God to bring her mother back and take her instead (138).
From the beginning, Jimmy remembers his relationship with his mother asstrained. When he was a child, she expected him to be bright and understand her work.As alittle boy, he wanted unconditional love that she could not always provide. It seems clearthat Jimmy’s mother experienced some of the “undeniable anger” Adrienne Rich findsthat connects all mothers (24). His mother’sjob...
She tells a sad story of a tough life, but she does not for what has happened to complain. She remembers the dances of her youth and moonlight of June when she met her husband. They were married and lived together for seventy years working, enjoying life, and raising twelve of her most wonderful children. They have lost eight of them before she reached the age of sixty. She did housework and worked in the garden, she cared and loved for her family.
Throughout the story “Walk Two Moons” written by Sharon Creech, Mrs.Winterbottom is faced with internal and external conflicts that lead her to change.
Throughout the book it explains how the Boy’s mother dies with the Man experiencing flashbacks. The mother commits suicide by walking out into the cold forest where she eventually dies. "She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.”(58). The Mother’s view of death is definitely a lot different than the Father’s. The Mother sees death as an inevitable thing that she would rather choose than it is brought upon by the barbarians that inhabit the America that they live in. On the other hand, the Father feels ...
Imagine being at school and hearing loud gunshots. The teacher yells and tells the class to hide in a bush not knowing where their family is or if they had survived the attack. This is what happened to Salva. Salva is a character from Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk to Water. He is on a difficult journey without his family. He faces many challenges along the way but he has people in his life that make him want to keep pushing through the struggles. The factors that helped Salva survive were his immediate family, Marial, and Uncle.
One reason why sal’s mom’s death made sal change is because how she kisses trees. Is is because sal’s mom kissed trees so now sal kisses trees. On chapter 20 page 116 it says “I faced that tree squarely and kissed it firmly”.this quote shows that all because of sal’s mom kissing trees sal kisses trees now.
Afterward, she sums it up: "The complete list of losses. There they are. And it helps, I've found, if I can count them off, so to speak”. That same night, when Dede falls asleep, things are different; she does not hear the spirits of her sisters running through the house. Her telling the of the story of a great loss over to herself, honors the memory of sacrifice and she can find the sense of closure with the heroic tragedy of her dear brave sisters.
...ne to her and her fore mothers in the past and she realizes that although she can't forget the stories or the memories that were imprinted in her mind, she can still move on and not let it continue to hurt her.
sal has a rough life but then it got better in the end first her mother left her father. she has to move to ohio then she goes to school there. she meets a new friend named fodia she also had a rough life her mother left to but. it also got better for her.there's a girl named sal she has a rough life at first but then it got better.
The Narrator’s family treats her like a monster by resenting and neglecting her, faking her death, and locking her in her room all day. The Narrator’s family resents her, proof of this is found when the Narrator states “[My mother] came and went as quickly as she could.
Her mother’s beauty was everlasting until she died at 81 years old. Also, she talked about how she stopped taking her medication and then gradually got better. She had been off drugs for 21 days. So now she could be able to do much more. All that she wanted was to make her husband happy and see how the church she liked and the preacher who would talk to her.
She realizes the very thing that she was withholding from him could have been taken away from the both of them. From that moment on I have always spent time with both my parents through tragedy my mother gave me dad a Second Chance.