Walk Two Moons Analysis

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In the book walk two moons by sharon creech, sale changed by accepting her mother's death though several internal & external forces is {1] something important to sal is the bus crash site because it holds the memory of going to see her mom's grave.Talking to mrs. cadaver. one important setting to Sal was the bus crash site because before she could not except her mother's death before at the bus crash in page 259 & 260 sal drives to the bus crash and goes down the hill were the bus is and she saw punctured wheels and broken bus windows then the sheriff comes and sees her down there and teaches her a lecture about driving without a license tells her that he did see sal's mom when the bus crashed.then the sheriff takes sal to her mother's

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