Walk Two Moons Character Analysis

“Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings… and stopped in front of a house in Euclid,Ohio.”(Creech 1). When a child moves from one place to another, they feel a range of emotions including a sense of lost. In Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech uses internal and external forces to change Salamincas character by forcing her to leave something and someone she loves, using nature as a way to influence her through the drive, and making her have to realize her mom is dead.
Sal is forced to leave Bybanks and at first feels negative feelings. It is shown when “plucked me up like a weed”(1). It is shown when she did not want to leave the farm because that is connected to her mom. It is shown again when “No trees” (8). She is negative because it is not like Bybanks with nature. It is mentioned again when “I am their only chickabiddy” (1). She shows signs of potential siblings in the past. Overall, Sal is just introducing herself to the reader.

That is shown “The closer we got to the badlands the more wicked were the whispers in the air slow down” (133). The text shows how she started to have nature influence her to think a certain way. Nature influencing is shown “On a bus my father and I were astonished”(134). They were surprised by the level of effort she went to leave her family. It is again shown “My mother,father, and I were our own little unit”(135). Flashes back to where she was in her good old days and comparing it now. In conclusion, Sal is being very hopeful to find her mom and letting nature control