I just read the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. This is about a girl, Salamanca Tree Hiddle goes on a six day trip with her Grandma and Grandpa while telling the story of her close friend Phoebe Winterbottom who's mother like hers, unexpectedly leaves home. Her and her grandparents are driving to Ohio from Kentucky to where her fathers "friend" lives. Later in the book Sal's grandma becomes ill and needs to be rushed to the hospital. Since her grandpa wont leave her grandmas side he lets her take the car down the hill in the dark to see where her mothers bus had crashed from when she left home. She figures out that her mother had died and then finds out her grandmother had died too. Sal learns how valuable life is and decides to be nice to her new life with her father in Ohio. The theme of this book is "Dont judge a person until youve walked two moons in its shoes" which relates to life I feel. People in society today judge people right away whether its on looks, ethnicity, age, gender etc. This is terrible, but true and I think people should start to look in depth into a person rather than judge them on a first glance like this book when Sal talks about her friend Phoebe and figures out there was more to her and their random adventures.
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Kelly, this book sounds ok but seems to be kind of depressing. I haven't had anyone close to me die except my dog so going through what Sal went through has to be tough. That is also a very good theme and makes a lot of sense from what I have read in your summary.
Kelly,
this book sounds sad but really good! i can kind of understand Sal because my grandpa dies, but i haven't lost a parent and that probably makes it so much worse. I like your theme and it really seems to fit!
Alex
This book actually sounds vaguely familiar. Deaths are always sad in books but I think that they actually make the books more interesting and usually there is a deep message behind them that you can learn.
I know I have this book somewhere in my house but I've never read it. It sounds good but sad. I wouldn't be able to imagine losing someone that close to me. I agree with you in the way that although it's common knowledge that it's not right to judge people before you know them, it's still frequently done. I liked this post and it explained the book that I've never gotten around to reading.
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