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How Did Christina Gregory Believe In The Five Stages Of Grief

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In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Chreech, Salamanca (Sal) Tree Hiddle is on a mission. When the story begins, she gets “plucked up like a weed”(1) and moves with her father from Kentucky to Ohio. And soon after that, she starts to embark on a journey to Lewiston, Idaho to find her mother and bring her back. When they begin the drive, her grandparents ask her to tell them a story. So she begins to tell one of her imaginative friends, Phoebe Winterbotton. She tells them how she makes up wild fantasies about different things, and how when Phoebe’s mother leaves, she thinks that someone has kidnapped her. While telling the story of Phoebe and her disappearing mother, she thinks about her own mother and how she left. But later, she comes to …show more content…

The first stage of grief that we see both Phoebe and Sal go through is denial. In the article “The Five Stages of Grief”, Dr. Christina Gregory says that this is the stage that most people go through first, and is essential to recovery. When Phoebe comes home one day, she finds an envelope with her name on it, but her mother isn’t home. There are two other envelopes. One for her, her sister, and her dad. She asks for Sal to come over immediately. Sal arrives at her house and Phoebe says that the paper in the envelope says to make sure all the windows and doors are locked. When Phoebe’s sister gets home, she opens hers and it says to warm the pasta in the fridge. They all work on making dinner until Mr. Winterbottom gets home. He finally gets home and on his slip of paper, it says, “I had to go away. I can’t explain it, but I can. I’ll call you in a few …show more content…

Christina Gregory, acceptance is the stage when you begin to stabilize. She brings a man with her, and she says that he is his son and that she had to give him away because she wasn’t able to take care of him. Phoebe doesn't know how to feel about it. She goes outside with Sal and they spit in the grass. This symbolizes how Phoebe is letting loose a little and being less proper. Sal says that that spit gave her the courage to go up to Margaret for a conversation. They talk about their mother and how they knew each other. At this point in the story, when she’s telling her grandparents, her grandma has a stroke and they have to go to the hospital. But because she needs to get to her mother before her birthday, her grandpa gives her the keys and she starts driving to Lewiston. When she’s at an overlook, some guy starts talking to her about how a bus went over the steep overlook. When he drives away, she goes to check it out. When she goes back to her car, there is a sheriff near her car. He asks her where the driver is. She says she drove it very carefully. Then she proceeds to tell him why she is here when she asks. He then took her to her mom. She is brought to a beautiful graveyard. She goes up to her mother’s grave and starts to look at the area around

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