Sal's Symbols In Walk Two Moons

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“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.”(47,creech)Sal has walked two different moons that some people cannot relate too. Sal will see many different settings that become important to Sal.These three settings in “Walk Two Moons” that she will visit Euclid,Ohio and Lewiston,Idaho and Bybanks,Kentucky. First, Sal starts off in Euclid,Ohio. When Sal arrives in Euclid,Ohio it said, “...we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid,Ohio.”(1,creech) Sal’s life will change when they stop in front of a house. Another thing Sal said, “Where’s the barn? I asked. The river? The swimming hole.”(2,creech) Sal is now concerned that she will now lose everything she had before. Before Sal …show more content…

Sal also told me some details, “It was a pleasant place. The snake river curved behind this section, and tall, full-leaved trees grew here and there across the lawn.”(253,creech) Sal needs to know everything about that place because it will stay special to her. When Sal’s journey ended it said, “...was an engraving of a maple tree, and it was only then, when I saw the stone and her name--Chanhassen “Sugar” Pickford Hiddle-- and the engraving of the tree, that I knew…”(253,creech) Sal sees this and she knows that she would come to peace. This important setting is what Sal’s wanted to see, now knowing she can finally come to …show more content…

When Sal returns to Bybanks it said, “we’re back in Bybanks now. My father and I are living on our farm again, and Gramps is living with us. Gram is buried in the aspen grove where she and Gramps were married.”(261,creech) In other words, Sal believes that it comes back to normal, and go back to how it use to happen around there. Another thing that Sal said, “My mother’s postcards and her hair are still beneath the floorboards in my room.”(263,creech) Sal points that her mother will stay with her no matter what. Sal finished the story by telling me that, “But for now, Gramps has his beagle, and I have a chicken and a singing tree, and that's the way it is.”(266,creech) Sal decides to tell me that she has everything she did before. This was important to Sal, because she can go home

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