“Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.” This is a quote that describes Salamanca’s story. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a great story that illustrates a great moral. Salamanca the main character, who is also known as Sal, tells a story inside of a story which set the book apart from others. Sal doesn’t understand what happened throughout most of the book, then she “walks through other people’s moccasins” and understands most of the things that happened. The lessons that Sal learned throughout the book created a great moral.
After Sal meets Phoebe in Euclid, Ohio she gets a great deal of events. Sal begins to have a big imagination like Phoebe. Sal and Phoebe get these mysterious letters that they thing a lunatic is setting on Phoebe’s porch. The letters left on Phoebe’s porch teach a good lesson and have a good meaning. “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” That quote that the girls get on the porch has a great meaning to it. The quote is telling them to give people a chance and don’t judge someone before you get to know them. “Everyone has his own agenda” That is telling them that not everyone can drop everything and be there for them, or that some people will be gone before you want them to be and you just have to get over it. “In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?” Sometimes there is a reason for what happens and soon enough you will learn that they don’t really matter. “You can’t keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.” You are the one that controls your attitude, not what comes and hits you at that very moment. All these letters that the girls get tell them something that can help everyone if they take those things into consideration. The quotes have great meaning and it is great because it ties into the story Sal tells which is inside of another story.
Having Sal tell a story inside of another story is what sets the book apart. The story starts out with Sal talking about the road trip with her grandparents, and then it turns into Sal telling the story of Phoebe while she is on the road trip. Which is the story and the story of Phoebe is the story inside of the story. That is what sets the book from other books. That is one of the reasons I liked the book. The book had great morals and lessons that most people need to learn and some people don’t understand some of the lesson the book teaches until later on.
Sal doesn’t understand things at first. She wonders why her mom left. She wants to know why they had to move to Euclid, Ohio. Sal doesn’t understand a lot of those things, but as she becomes friends with Phoebe she starts to learn some things about herself. She learns the things about herself through Phoebe’s problems. Sal grew and understood a little bit more, but the thing that made it hit her was the road trip with her grandparents. The trip had its ups and downs, but she learned it all and understood everything after that. Sal learned the things she didn’t want to believe were true. Sometimes that is the hardest thing to do. Although it was true Sal got over it and was happy. All it took was for Sal to walk in other people’s moccasins to change her attitude.
The book was a great book and I would recommend it to anyone who is having a hard time and feels a little lost. It helps you to look on the brighter side of life and it is great. The book has a great moral, Sal’s spirit lifts up others. I liked that Sal’s story was a story inside of a story. Throughout the book Sal was learning and that is what happens to us as we go on through our road trip called life.
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