In chapter 12 of Walk Two Moons, Salamanca (Sal), Gram and Gramps are on the road headed to South Dakota and make a stop in Pipestone, Minnesota. In Minnesota, they go to see an exhibition about Indian (Native American) peace pipes. When they are at the exhibition, they spot a Native American smoking a peace pipe, and Gramps asks if they can each have a turn smoking it. When it is Sal's turn to smoke the pipe, she blows two puffs and keeps the smoke in her mouth. When she opens up her mouth a little bit, the puff of smoke drifts out and her mind says "There goes your mother." My question is: when Sal lets go of the bit of smoke, why does she feel like she is letting go of her mother? Is she saying that her mother is like smoke, drifting away?
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I think that when Sal lets go of the bit of smoke, she feels she is letting go of her mother, because smoke is something that just disappears in the air, and her mother left without really telling her, so it's like her mother just disapeared out of her life, like smoke.
ResponderExcluirI think that when Sal lets go of that bit of smoke she feels that her mother slipped through her fingers like smoke. I think that she feels that her mother is drifting away and her father has already given up and moved on.
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