Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (Book Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report
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This is a story about a girl named Salamanca who is travelling with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to visit her mother, who left their family some time ago. As they are driving across the country and visiting various places, Sal tells her grandparents the story of her friend, Phoebe, an opinionated girl with family issues.
Phoebe's story starts with Sal and her father moving to Ohio from Kentucky because of a woman named Mrs. Cadaver. Naturally, Sal does not like Mrs. Cadaver and instead befriends Mrs. Cadaver's neighbor, Phoebe. The girls get along fine, but then mysterious notes start appearing at Phoebe's house. Phoebe is convinced that there is a lunatic in the neighborhood. To make matters worse, Phoebe's mother decides to leave without telling anyone where she is going.
Phoebe's imagination gets the best of her and she is convinced that the lunatic kidnapped and murdered her mother. However, it is soon revealed that Phoebe's mother has a son in college and she wants him to be a part of the family. This surprises Phoebe's entire family, but they soon learn to accept it.
As Sal and her grandparents are nearing Idaho, Sal's grandmother suffers a stroke and is taken to the hospital. Sal's grandfather gives Sal the keys and she drives alone to find her mother. The road is windy, but Sal bravely makes it through the night.
She then spots the remnants of an overturned bus on the side of the road. She investigates it, but the sheriffs catch her. She learns that the accident had one surviving passenger, Mrs. Cadaver, who had sat next to Sal's mother on the bus ride.
After learning Sal's identity, the sheriffs take her to her mother's grave. Saddened, Sal returns to the hospital to find that her grandmother has passed away.
In the end, Sal and her father return to Kentucky to live on their farm.
First, this story is about layers. It's a story within a story within a story. The initial story is about Sal and her grandparents, but it's also a story about Phoebe and her family back in Ohio. And when the grandmother passes away at the end, readers understand that there is also a hidden story about the grandparents travelling across the country.
For a children's book, this story is also culturally rich, pulling references from Native American culture and Greek mythology. There are several references to Pandora and Prometheus, and even Euclid, the city in Ohio, alludes to Greek mythology.
But from this myth talk comes an interesting idea from Sal. She talks about Pandora for a school project, but wonders if there is a reverse Pandora's box, where it's filled with all good things except one bad thing.
The climax of this story highlights an important message about how people, particularly children, deal with overwhelming situations. People often create myths or stories to cope with certain events in their lives. These stories aren't necessarily lies, but rather attempts to interpret the seemingly random events. And while this highlights how the human brain is so creative to create logic and order in our lives, it also demonstrates how dangerous this can be when people don't accept reality.
Readers learn that Sal knew about her mother's death the entire duration of the story, which is why she is constantly nervous about the twisted roads in the mountains and continuously imagines cars driving off. The purpose of her trip to Idaho was not only to force Sal to see the grave for herself, but to also allow Sal to experience her mother's journey to Idaho - an opportunity to walk two moons in her mother's shoes.
Through Minute Book Reports, hopefully you can get the plot and a few relevant discussion points in just a couple of minutes.
Music by WingoWinston from newgrounds.com.
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This is a story about a girl named Salamanca who is travelling with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to visit her mother, who left their family some time ago. As they are driving across the country and visiting various places, Sal tells her grandparents the story of her friend, Phoebe, an opinionated girl with family issues.
Phoebe's story starts with Sal and her father moving to Ohio from Kentucky because of a woman named Mrs. Cadaver. Naturally, Sal does not like Mrs. Cadaver and instead befriends Mrs. Cadaver's neighbor, Phoebe. The girls get along fine, but then mysterious notes start appearing at Phoebe's house. Phoebe is convinced that there is a lunatic in the neighborhood. To make matters worse, Phoebe's mother decides to leave without telling anyone where she is going.
Phoebe's imagination gets the best of her and she is convinced that the lunatic kidnapped and murdered her mother. However, it is soon revealed that Phoebe's mother has a son in college and she wants him to be a part of the family. This surprises Phoebe's entire family, but they soon learn to accept it.
As Sal and her grandparents are nearing Idaho, Sal's grandmother suffers a stroke and is taken to the hospital. Sal's grandfather gives Sal the keys and she drives alone to find her mother. The road is windy, but Sal bravely makes it through the night.
She then spots the remnants of an overturned bus on the side of the road. She investigates it, but the sheriffs catch her. She learns that the accident had one surviving passenger, Mrs. Cadaver, who had sat next to Sal's mother on the bus ride.
After learning Sal's identity, the sheriffs take her to her mother's grave. Saddened, Sal returns to the hospital to find that her grandmother has passed away.
In the end, Sal and her father return to Kentucky to live on their farm.
First, this story is about layers. It's a story within a story within a story. The initial story is about Sal and her grandparents, but it's also a story about Phoebe and her family back in Ohio. And when the grandmother passes away at the end, readers understand that there is also a hidden story about the grandparents travelling across the country.
For a children's book, this story is also culturally rich, pulling references from Native American culture and Greek mythology. There are several references to Pandora and Prometheus, and even Euclid, the city in Ohio, alludes to Greek mythology.
But from this myth talk comes an interesting idea from Sal. She talks about Pandora for a school project, but wonders if there is a reverse Pandora's box, where it's filled with all good things except one bad thing.
The climax of this story highlights an important message about how people, particularly children, deal with overwhelming situations. People often create myths or stories to cope with certain events in their lives. These stories aren't necessarily lies, but rather attempts to interpret the seemingly random events. And while this highlights how the human brain is so creative to create logic and order in our lives, it also demonstrates how dangerous this can be when people don't accept reality.
Readers learn that Sal knew about her mother's death the entire duration of the story, which is why she is constantly nervous about the twisted roads in the mountains and continuously imagines cars driving off. The purpose of her trip to Idaho was not only to force Sal to see the grave for herself, but to also allow Sal to experience her mother's journey to Idaho - an opportunity to walk two moons in her mother's shoes.
Through Minute Book Reports, hopefully you can get the plot and a few relevant discussion points in just a couple of minutes.
Music by WingoWinston from newgrounds.com.
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