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''Walk Two Moons'' is a UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal-winning [[MiddleGradeLiterature middle grade]] novel by Creator/SharonCreech. It tells the story of Sal, an adolescent Native American girl who goes on a journey to find her mother. Along the way, she tells her grandparents the story of her friend Phoebe and her relationship with her own mother.
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''Walk Two Moons'' is a UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal-winning MediaNotes/NewberyMedal-winning [[MiddleGradeLiterature middle grade]] novel by Creator/SharonCreech. It tells the story of Sal, an adolescent Native American girl who goes on a journey to find her mother. Along the way, she tells her grandparents the story of her friend Phoebe and her relationship with her own mother.
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* CouldSayItBut: When a sheriff catches Sal driving and makes her promise not to drive again until she's old enough for a license, Sal asks if he means even on Gramps's farm. The sheriff says no one can really stop that, as long as she doesn't harm any people or animals-- but he's not saying she ''should'', or giving her permission.
* DangerousClifftopRoad: Sal drives down Lewiston Hill and describes it as terrifying: a road of hairpin turns where the downhill side is a steep drop off bordered by only a thin cable. Making things worse, it's dark out, Sal does not have a driver's license (she's only thirteen) and had never driven on a road before, [[spoiler: and she's driving to the site of the bus crash that killed her mother, along that very road]].
* DangerousClifftopRoad: Sal drives down Lewiston Hill and describes it as terrifying: a road of hairpin turns where the downhill side is a steep drop off bordered by only a thin cable. Making things worse, it's dark out, Sal does not have a driver's license (she's only thirteen) and had never driven on a road before, [[spoiler: and she's driving to the site of the bus crash that killed her mother, along that very road]].
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** With the Winterbottoms: Parents George and Norma, and daughters Phoebe and Prudence.[[spoiler..and half-brother Mike Bickle-Winterbottom.]]
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** With the Winterbottoms: Parents George and Norma, and daughters Phoebe and Prudence.[[spoiler..[[spoiler:..and half-brother Mike Bickle-Winterbottom.]]
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** Also occurs in ''Absolutely Normal Chaos,'' which [[HeroOfAnotherStory stars Mary Lou.]] Her cousins all have two names:
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** With the Winterbottoms: Parents George and Norma, and daughters Phoebe and Prudence.[[spoiler..and half-brother Mike Bickle-Winterbottom.]]
** Also occurs in ''Absolutely Normal Chaos,'' which [[HeroOfAnotherStory stars MaryLou.]] Lou]]. Her cousins all have two names:
** Also occurs in ''Absolutely Normal Chaos,'' which [[HeroOfAnotherStory stars Mary
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* FramingDevice: Pheobe's story is being told by Sal to her grandparent's. Zigzagged in that she also breaks the fourth wall to narrate directly to the reader.
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* FramingDevice: Pheobe's story is being told by Sal to her grandparent's.grandparents. Zigzagged in that she also breaks the fourth wall to narrate directly to the reader.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Mike turns out to be [[spoiler: Mrs. Winterbottom's son]]. We also find out that [[spoiler:Mr. Birkway and Mrs. Cadaver]] are brother and sister (twins, to boot).
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Mike turns out to be [[spoiler: Mrs. Winterbottom's Norma's son]]. We also find out that [[spoiler:Mr. Birkway and Mrs. Cadaver]] are brother and sister (twins, to boot).
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** Mrs. Winterbottom had a child out of wedlock before she met her husband, probably pretty young, and her husband is so respectable that she was never comfortable telling him, and she was so burned out trying to be the perfect mother and wife that, when her first child figured out who she was and contacted her, she, similarly to Sal's mom, left to get to know both him and herself. When she comes back to the family in new clothes and a new haircut, she confesses everything.
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** Mrs. Norma Winterbottom had a child out of wedlock before she met her husband, probably pretty young, and her husband George is so respectable that she was never comfortable telling him, and she was so burned out trying to be the perfect mother and wife that, when her first child figured out who she was and contacted her, she, similarly to Sal's mom, left to get to know both him and herself. When she comes back to the family in new clothes and a new haircut, she confesses everything.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Sal's full name is Salamanca Tree Hiddle.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Mike turns out to be [[spoiler: Mrs. Winterbottom's son]]. We also find out that [[spoiler:Mr. Birkway and Mrs. Cadaver]] are brother and sister.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Mike turns out to be [[spoiler: Mrs. Winterbottom's son]]. We also find out that [[spoiler:Mr. Birkway and Mrs. Cadaver]] are brother and sister.sister (twins, to boot).
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** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a late-term miscarriage (late enough that it was bordering on a stillbirth) after a long period of infertility and subsequently had to have a hysterectomy, losing any chance to ever have another child, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
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** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a late-term miscarriage (late (second trimester ''at least'' given that the baby was developed enough that it was bordering on a stillbirth) they could tell the sex just by looking) after a long period of infertility and subsequently had to have a hysterectomy, losing any chance to ever have another child, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
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** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a late-term miscarriage (bordering on a stillbirth) after a long period of infertility and subsequently had to have a hysterectomy, losing any chance to ever have another child, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
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** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a late-term miscarriage (bordering (late enough that it was bordering on a stillbirth) after a long period of infertility and subsequently had to have a hysterectomy, losing any chance to ever have another child, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
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** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a miscarriage after a long period of infertility, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
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** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a late-term miscarriage (bordering on a stillbirth) after a long period of infertility, infertility and subsequently had to have a hysterectomy, losing any chance to ever have another child, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
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* ParentsAsPeople: In some ways, the main conflict of the two stories -- both Phoebe's and Sal's -- is their having to suddenly come to terms with the fact that their mothers have lives, problems, and hang-ups that have nothing to do with being ''their mother'' (even though some of them do have to do with their own motherhood in general).
** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a miscarriage after a long period of infertility, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
** Mrs. Winterbottom had a child out of wedlock before she met her husband, probably pretty young, and her husband is so respectable that she was never comfortable telling him, and she was so burned out trying to be the perfect mother and wife that, when her first child figured out who she was and contacted her, she, similarly to Sal's mom, left to get to know both him and herself. When she comes back to the family in new clothes and a new haircut, she confesses everything.
** Chanhassen Pickford Hiddle seems to have been depressed. She suffered a miscarriage after a long period of infertility, and while she loves her husband and daughter, she feels like she doesn't know who she is. She feels like she isn't as good or kind as her husband, and we know also that she isn't as stern or serious as her parents, and she left to go on a cross-country trip in an effort to find herself, and to visit a cousin she hadn't seen in a long time, in the hopes that they could help her figure out who she is and was, with or without her marriage and motherhood.
** Mrs. Winterbottom had a child out of wedlock before she met her husband, probably pretty young, and her husband is so respectable that she was never comfortable telling him, and she was so burned out trying to be the perfect mother and wife that, when her first child figured out who she was and contacted her, she, similarly to Sal's mom, left to get to know both him and herself. When she comes back to the family in new clothes and a new haircut, she confesses everything.
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* StepfordSmiler: Mrs. Winterbottom, up until she no longer has the energy for it.
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* MeaningfulName: Attempted and failed. Salamanca's parents intended to name her after her mother's and grandmother's Native American tribe, but they got it wrong. By the time they found out that they were of the Seneca tribe, they were already used to "Salamanca" and just left it.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sal explains that her mother was given a Native American name, Chanhassen, meaning "tree sweet juice," or "maple sugar," but only her own mother called her that. Everyone else called her "Sugar," which she disliked.
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** Sal is only ever called "Salamanca" by her mother and grandparents.
** Sal explains that her mother was given a Native American name, Chanhassen, meaning "tree sweet juice," or "maple sugar," but only her own mother called her that. Everyone else called her "Sugar," which she disliked.
** Sal is only ever called "Salamanca" by her mother and grandparents.
** Sal explains that her mother was given a Native American name, Chanhassen, meaning "tree sweet juice," or "maple sugar," but only her own mother called her that. Everyone else called her "Sugar," which she disliked.
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* AffectionateNickname: Gramps calls Gram his "gooseberry".
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* AffectionateNickname: Gramps calls Gram his "gooseberry". Sal is her grandparents' "chickabiddy."
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Gram dies, but Gramps is able to move on with his family and Sal is able to finally make peace with her mother's death and eventually grow close to Margaret upon learning she tried to save her mother's life.]]
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* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Gram [[spoiler:Gram dies, but Gramps is able to move on with his family and Sal is able to finally make peace with her mother's death and eventually grow close to Margaret upon learning she tried to save her mother's life.]]
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* TitleDrop: The longer proverb the title is drawn from ("Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins") comes up several times over the course of the book.
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* InMediasRes / HowWeGotHereHowWeGotHere: Toyed with. Sal spends most of the book telling her grandparents the story of her time in Iowa, but that story ends up not having much to do with the current situation of their road trip.
* IronicName: Mrs. Cadaver is eventually revealed as the SoleSurvivor of a bus accident [[spoiler:that killed Sal's mother]].
* IronicName: Mrs. Cadaver is eventually revealed as the SoleSurvivor of a bus accident [[spoiler:that killed Sal's mother]].
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Mrs. Cadaver, of the crash that killed Sal's mother.]]
