![]() ![]() Why would Pandora open the box? Why would hope be left inside? And what would be found at the bottom of a box of good things?Sal’s mother is absent. Pandora’s Box provides a nice analogy for present-day life in Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons. ![]() All of these have an unreliable narrator and implication of something sinister going on below the surface. It reminds me of “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie or “Holes” by Louis Sachar or “I Am the Cheese” by Robert Cormier. And the style, full of odd quaint country expressions and quirky humor. This is the interesting part, as our main character gets a taste of what a pill she was, having to console someone in the same situation.It’s a good story, especially if you know what a broken home is like. ![]() In the process, she befriends another girl, and HER mother leaves. The other is the story she tells to her grandparents that involve her mom and what happened with her and her dad after she left.The classic trifecta ensues: 1) they move somewhere she doesn’t like 2) Dad starts seeing another woman 3) No one in school likes her. ![]() One is in present-time, on a road trip with her grandparents. This is the story of a twelve-year-old girl coming to terms with the absence of her mom. ![]()
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