Gramma dieded
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- Glida: 1
- the singing tree
- The singing tree symbolizes Momma. When Sal was little, she regularly heard a bird singing in a tree near the barn. Sal could never locate the bird in the tree, which made it seem like the tree itself was singing. Momma had a close connection to nature, and so Sal associated the beautiful, magical singing tree with happiness and with Momma—in Sal’s opinion, life was perfect and wonderful largely because Momma is in it. So, it follows that when Sal and Dad get the news that Momma has died, Sal can’t hear the singing tree sing anymore. Though she, Gram, and Gramps sleep under it the first night after Dad leaves for Idaho, the tree never sings.
- Glida: 2
- hair is important because of mom
- Glida: 3
- a theme in Walk Two Moons is family is good
- Glida: 0
- In the novel, various characters’ hairstyles are associated with their identities, as well as the degree to which they feel happy and free in those identities. One of Sal’s defining features is her long black hair—it’s a trait that characters like Ben, Tom Fleet, and Mrs. Partridge immediately notice and comment on when they meet her. Momma had the same long black hair, but she cut it off just before she left for Lewiston, Idaho, insisting that she needed to go to Lewiston in order to figure out who she really was. Sal frames Momma’s haircut as a symbolic act—something that Momma did to free herself, suggesting that Momma associated her long hair with feeling trapped in Bybanks and in her role as a wife and mother. The fact that Momma and Sal had their hair in common makes the haircut even more significant, as it set Momma apart from Sal (who calls herself a “mirror” of Momma) physically and emotionally. When Sal then gathered Momma’s hair and saved it, she was symbolically refusing to let go of her perception of and relationship to Momma—it was inconceivable to Sal that Momma would ever need to search for meaning or purpose outside of their family.
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