Setting
This is the place where Sal was born and raised.
What is Bybanks, Kentucky.
This is the full name of the protagonist of Walk Two Moons.
What is Salamanca Tree Hiddle.
The story is mostly told during this event.
What is a road trip to Lewiston, Idaho.
This type of figurative language is used in the passage below:
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 (Creech 1)
What is a simile?
This tree serves as a symbol of Chanhassen's dreams for a family.
What is the singing tree?
What is Euclid, Ohio.
This is the full name of Sal's best friend in Euclid, Ohio.
What is Phoebe Winterbottom?
During Sal's road trip with Grandma and Grandpa, they go to see a geyser named Old Faithful, in this National Park.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
This type of figurative language is used in the underlined portion of the passage below.
The Black Hills were not really black. Pines covered the hills, and maybe at dusk they looked black, but when we saw them at midday, they were dark green. It was an eerie sight, all those rolling dark hills. A cool wind blew down through the pines, and the trees swished secrets among them (Creech 166-167).
What is personification?
This noisy and wild family represents to Sal what her mother's dream of a family might have been?
Who are the Finney's?
This is the final destination of Sal's road trip with Gram and Gramps.
What is Lewiston, Idaho?
Sal's father moves to Euclid, Ohio, to be near this person.
Who is Margaret, Cadaver.
While driving to Lewiston, Idaho, Sal and Gram and Gramps stop at this National Memorial featuring presidential faces carved into a cliff face.
What is Mount Rushmore National Memorial?
This type of figurative language is used in the passage below.
As we pulled onto the Ohio Turnpike, which is the flattest, straightest piece of road in God’s whole creation, Gram interrupted my prayers. “Salamanca—” (Creech 7).
What is hyperbole?
This character's journey symbolically parallels Sal's journey.
Who is Phoebe Winterbottom?
On Sal's road trip, with Gram and Gramps, they drive through both Badlands National Park and Black Hills National Forest in this state.
What is South Dakota?
This young man has romantic feelings for Sal and after several failed attempts, finally kisses Sal.
Who is Ben Finney?
Phoebe thinks her mother is having an affair with this character, who turns out to actually be her son given up for adoption when she was young.
Who is Mike Bickle?
This type of figurative language is used in the passage below.
My mother’s parents—my other set of grandparents—are Pickfords, and they are as unlike my grandparents Hiddle as a donkey is unlike a pickle (Creech 13).
What is an analogy?
This reliably erupting geyser Gram desperately wants to see while her health is fading symbolically represents her long marriage to Gramps.
What is Old Faithful?
Sal and her Gram and Gramps stop at this National Monument in Minnesota, where Native American's used to quarry stone for pipes.
What is Pipestone National Monument?
This is the actual name of "the maniac" who left notes for Phoebe's mother.
Who is Mike Bickle?
What is the name of the one person who survived the bus crash Sal's mother died in, in Idaho?
Who is Margaret Cadaver?
This type of figurative language - a type of saying - is used in the passage below.
Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins.
What is an idiom.
This symbolic journey is taken by Sal to try to understand why her mother left and what she was searching for.
What is the road trip to Lewiston, Idaho?