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External Forces In Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moon

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Sal a 13 year old moves to Euclid Ohio due to her loss of her mother. How would you react to one of your greatest fears? Such as you had to move due to the fact someone left your family. Think about how something or someone externally made an impact in your life. Well in the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal the main character changes due to many external forces that she went through. Early in the story Sal Experiences one of the biggest external force in the story “Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings...and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.”(1) This externally changed Sal because after she left her home back …show more content…

Then all the events that occurred during their stay in Euclid also greatly impacted them in an external way. So when their mother left it caused them to go through all those external changes. That was one of the greatest external forces that Sal and her father experienced. Another external force is early in the story when Sal finds her true friend “ I stood there, looking around, and that's when I saw a face pressed up on the upstairs window next to the door. It was a round girls face, and it looked afraid. I didn't know it then , but that face belonged to Phoebe Winterbottom, a girl with a powerful imagination, who would become my friend , and would have many peculiar things happen to her.” (2)This impacted Sal because after her relationship with phoebe grew stronger they hung out more and all those peculiar things that happened to phoebe also happened to Sal because Sal hung at with her which then more and more externally impacted her. Sal also realizes how all these events happen and how they all change her. And then many more unfortunate events are coming

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