Walk Two Moons Character Analysis

Moving states, meeting a lunatic, and losing your mother, turns out to be more valuable than meeting your mother, learning the truth, and knowing why your father had a bizarre relationship with a woman Sal believes is a murderer. Throughout the novel,Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Sal the main character and her father move from their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky, to an unknown place to them in Euclid, Ohio. Once they reach Euclid, Sal learns that her father met a woman, not just any woman, a woman by the name of Mrs.Cadaver who was with Sal’s mother during her last breaths. While in Euclid, Sal meets a girl named Phoebe. Phoebe and Sal become best friends and go on a wild ride together. Sal, and her grandparents decide they are going to go …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel, Sal was very negative about any situation that got in her way. During this quote, Sal is explaining the differences between Euclid and Bybanks,”No swimming hole, no barn, no cows, no chickens, no pigs” (10.) In this quote, Sal is seeing everything in Euclid negative, which makes her feel and act very differently than if she was in Bybanks. Her perspective starts to develop her as first she hates life in Euclid which affects the way she sees things. In the middle of the novel, Sal’s perspective of the world starts to change from negative to positive because Sal starts to realize that life isn’t so bad in Euclid and that if she just gave it some time, she would start to feel more comfortable. During this quote, Sal is saying that when something is going bad, she had hope that everything would be good. “For the first time, it occurred to me that maybe my mother’s leaving had nothing whatsoever to do with me”(169.) In this quote, Sal is beginning to see that Euclid isn’t that bad and has learned more of herself about how she adapts to situations. Sal is also beginning to change attitudes of how she views the world and the situations she is in. In this quote, Sal is starting to get better understanding of why her father didn’t take her to Idaho. “I also realized that there were lots of reasons why my father didn’t take me to Idaho when he got the new …show more content…
During the beginning of the book, Sal refused to empathize with others because she thought she had a bigger problem at hand, her mother. In this quote, Sal refuses to empathize with her father and how he Mrs.Cadaver, and her relevance to their family. “Who cares? I thought. Who cares how he met Mrs.Cadaver?” Sal isn’t looking at her father’s perspective and is lacking empathy to her father. She is also disrespecting her father which affects the way she is viewed. In the middle of the novel, Sal is beginning to empathize with Phoebe, when her mother leaves instead of being stubborn and ignoring. “I felt bad for Phoebe. I knew I should get up and try to be nice, but I remembered when I had felt like that, and I knew that sometimes you just wanted to be alone with the birds of sadness.” Sal is starting to empathize with others because instead of forcing a situation with Phoebe she remembers how she felt when her mother left and decided to give Phoebe space and time. At the end of the novel Sal is empathizing with people in all sorts of situations. In this quote, Sal is starting to learn more about herself than at the beginning. “It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them