Sacrifice Leader In Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moon

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Martin Luther King Jr once said “a genuine leader is not a searcher for condense but a molder of consensus.” In the novel Walk Two Moons ,written by Sharon Creech ,Sal encounters external forces that cause Sal to grow or change.

The first external force that Sal experiences ,is between Sal and the move .Sal had to move to move three hundred miles strait to Euclid ,Ohio. “Just over a year ago my father plucked me up like a weed and took all of our belongings (no,that’s not true he didn’t take the chestnut tree,the willow,the maple,the hay fort ,or the swimming hole ,and that all belonged to me ) and we drove three hundred miles and stopes in front of a house .”the reason why I chose this quote was because it shows how Sal has to adapt to living Euclid ,Ohio instead of bybanks ,Kentucky

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