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The Story of 2 Mothers

How do the stories of the mothers parallel?  How are they different? What does each girl learn about her mother through the book?

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Sal’s Trip- Purpose???

Sal is taken away from her home to go on the trip with her grandparents. Why was her father willing to send Sal on the trip?  Based on what happens on the trip, did it achieve its intended purpose?  Why or why not?

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Sal and Phoebe

These girls both experience “growing pains”.  How does each girl face her deepest fears about her absent mother?  Her family structure?

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Both mothers parallel each other in many ways. One is that both mothers leave there families. Sal's mother leaves at the begining of the book and Phoebe's mother leaves on page 116. Some differences is that Sal's mother doesn't return but Phoebe's mother does. Her mother returns on page 232. Each girl learns that her mother isn't perfect.

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In the end, Sal becomes more comfortable talking about people like her mom, and not missing her as much as she did. I feel like going on that road trip was like a closure for Sal, so she could stop worrying. For example on page 262 Sal thinks "I realized that out whole trip out to lewiston had been a gift from gram and gramps to me. They were giving me a chance to walk in my mothers moccasins." Phoebe on the other hand was facing how to achieve more things by herself while her mother was gone. She also realized how much she actually cared about her mom by trying to find out what happened to her, or if she was murdered. For example on page 172 when she reported to the police that someone had killed her mother

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Sal goes on a trip with her grandparents to see her mother. Sal wants to see her mother for some reason, even when Sal knows she is dead. On page 3, it states, " On the night that we got the bad news--that she was not returning," and that implies that her mom is dead. Sal prays to the trees and always thinks of her mom.
Phoebe goes full out investigating looking for her mother. On page 171, it states, "Phoebe and I stood for 5 minutes outside the police sation," and this for Phoebe's mom. This is what Phoebe did to try to find her mom and  deal with her being away.

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they both did but it wasnt just physical it was also very emotional. For example on page 3 it says "On the night that we got the bad news that my mother is not returning...". So now this girl needs to live with out a mother and growing up with out a mother which may cause growing pains which. Which in this case are more emotional than physical. Which would also effect the family structure needing to fill the crucial spot of a mother figure

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The mothers were much alike when it came to their disappearance but also very different. One way that they were alike was not about the mothers, but Phoebe and Sal's reaction. Both of the girls thought their mothers left for one main reason, and that reason is did their mothers leave because of them? Did Phoebe's mom leave because of her? Did Sal's mom leave to Idaho because of her?

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they both feel like its not happening but in reality they know they arent there that they left them and this grows on them over time they latch on to believing that they are there and this effects their family dynamic to by making everyone else seem like they dont care on page 151 pheobe thinks that her dad isnt doing anything about her mom disappearing, that he is just sitting and waiting for her to come back when she most likely wont and he knows that so that is why he is just standing by and pheobe does not realize that so that is effecting their family dynamic

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Sal's mother is dead and Phoebe's mom was missing. Sal's mom left but her mom would call every night to make sure she was safe. on page 3 Sal states," on the night we got the bad news- that she was not returning." This states that Sal's mom wasn't coming back ever, that she was killed. Phoebe's mother left and doesn't know where she is and why she left. Phoebe told Sal and her family that her mother is lost in the world. Sal realizes on page 3 that beneath Phoebe's story is her own story. they both live with a father and are both curious of where their mothers are.

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Each girl faces her deepest fear because both mothers have left there family and that is frighting to not know when she is coming back and if there mother's okay or not

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The mothers were parallel because they both left their family's. They are different because Phoebe's mom came back. Also, she left because she wanted to talk and find her son and Phoebe was thinking she got kidnapped. It say's on page 172 " Or possibly a kidnapping. But the kidnapping might turn into a murder". But Phoebe finds out that she had a brother when her mom came back. Sal's mom is different because she does not comeback to their family. Sal learns that her mom died in a bus crash.

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The stories of the two mothers are parallel because both Sal and Phoebe's mothers left their homes and their families. On pg. 3, "My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mother left us one April morning. Our house was an old farmhouse that my parents had been restoring, room by room. Each night as he waited to hear from my mother, he chipped away at that wall. On the night that we got the bad news-that she was not returning-he pounded and hammered on that wall with a chisel and a hammer." On pg. 117 " When Phoebe's father came home Phoebe showed him his note. He opened it and sat down, staring at the piece of paper. Phoebe looked over his shoulder and read his note aloud; I had to go away. I can't explain. I'll call you in a few days." Sal's and Phoebe's mother stories are different because Sal's mother dies but Phoebe's mother doesn't. On pg.253 " It was a pleasant place. The Snake River curved behind this section, and tall, full-leaved trees grew here and there across the lawn. The sheriff parked the car and led me up a path toward the river, and there, on a little hill overlooking the river and the valley, was my mother's grave." This is how the two mothers are similar. The two mothers are different because Phoebe's mother comes back and Sal's mother dies. Sal learns that her mother really did die and that she finally believes that she's not coming back. Phoebe learns that her mother has a son and that was why she went away and who the "lunatic" was that kept showing up at her house.

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on page 151 sal invites phoebe to spend the week end at her house but phoebe is worried about her mother coming back while she is there. phoebe says "but what if mom comes back wile im at sals?will you call me?will you let me know?" phoebe is clearly very worried about her mom and is very paranoid that something bad has happened.when she comes back to her house and finds out her mother is not back but has phoned mrs.cadaver she panics.phoebe takes her mother being gone much harder then sal does and is constantly worrying about what happened and if she is ok.

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The 2 mothers are both parallel to each other because they both left/went missing. Sal found out his mother went missing in the beginning of the book on page 3 where it states that their mother had left, " They are also different because sals mom leaves at the beginning while the other mom left later on in the book on page 172, "it may
Sal learns throughout the book that her mother had died while phoebe learns that her mother comes back.

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In the text both of the mothers parallel. one example is that Sal's mother leaves. the reader knows this in the beginning of the text when Phoebe mentions that her mom is not coming back. Phoebe's mother also leaves in the text.  A difference that happens in the text is that Sal's mother does not return, because she died. but Phoebe's mother does come back. this happens on page 232 and 233. "She looked magnificent, but she did not look like Phoebes mother"

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Both of them experience very emotional things for them to understand. Sal's mom is dead but yet they still want to go visit. Also Phoebes mom went missing. In the text it says "Phoebe couldn't help it. She looked as if a whole family of the birds of sadness were nesting in her hair" page 145.This shows Phoebe cant think about how her mom would disappear. Also Phoebe thought her mom was on a day trip but has not seen her.

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Each girl faces her deepest fears when there mother disappears. Sal is worried that her mother wont come back. She is worried about this since the begining of the book. Phoebe is worried that her mother has been kidnapped and murderd. She starts these ideas on page 117. Both girls learn that there family structure is not what they think it is.

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Phoebe, like Sal, is experiencing lots of emotions and fears about her mother’s disappearance. Trying to deny the inevitable truth that she temporarily left, she is convinced that someone kidnapped or killed her mother. Because of her mother’s disappearance, phoebe is rude and mean to everyone, including Sal. "I hated her that day. I didn't care how upset she was about her mother, I really hated her, and I wanted her to leave. I wondered if this was how my father felt when I threw all those temper tantrums. Maybe he hated me for a while" Chapter 26 p 155.

Sal also denies the fact that something bad has happened to her mother. on page 3, " My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mother left us one April morning. Our house was an old farmhouse that my parents had been restoring, room by room. Each night as he waited to hear from my mother, he chipped away at that wall. On the night that we got the bad news-that she was not returning-he pounded and hammered on that wall with a chisel and a hammer." This shows that she and her father knows that her mother is dead, but she still insists that shes alive and thats why she goes on a trip with her grandparents. During the book, she constantly wishes that things where the way they used to be. Because of her grief, Sal is "ornery and stubborn has a donkey". When they get to idaho, she finally sees her mothers gravestone and knows that shes dead.

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her father let her go because sal deserved and needed closure and to see her one last time even if it did mean not really seeing her. the purpose was achieved from sal seeing her mother one last time, on page 253 and 254 they got to her mother and sal finally said " i knew now myself that she would not be coming home" that she finally had her time to see her and the purpose was achieved.

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The reason both mothers are parallel is because both of the mothers have left there family. They are different because Phoebe's mother had come back because she tried to find her son and Phoebe wondered if she was related to her son. As of Sal's situation, her mother had passed away.

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both of the parents are alike becasue Sal's mom and Phoebe's mom leave them. Eventually Phoebes mom returns but Sals mom was said to be dead.

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I think he was willing to send her on trip so she would get closure and see for herself that her mother was truly gone. Also so she could stop being anxious and worrying about her mom. In the end i feel like it did achieve its purpose, because Sal is more accepting that her mother is dead and isn't coming back. She also seemed more comfortable talking about her. For example on page 263 Sal thinks "Phoebe's tales were like my fishing in the air: for a while, i needed to believe my mother was not dead and that she would come back."

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both moms are similar in away that they both disappear, however they have a few differences. first of all sals mom disappeared in the beginning of the book while  phoebes mom left later in the book. we also find out in the beginning of chapter 39 page 232 that phoebes mother returned. however sals mother never comes back and was proclaimed dead.

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i think her father let her go on the trip because he wanted her to get to know her self better and get to see her mother. her mother was buried in Lewiston, Idaho and that is where her grandparents were driving to. Sal's father doesn't trust his parents or Sal's grandparents as he states on page

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I agree with Tyler Getz because Sal needed the closure that is achieved by going to find out if her mother was going to come home.

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Sal's father let her go on the trip because she needed to know that her mother was dead and that shes not coming back. Sal needed to see the gravestone and see that her mother isnt alive somewhere. The trip did acheive its purpose because when they got to idaho, phoebe got to see her mothers grave stone and finally have closure  knowing that she didnt leave them. Sal is able to more freely talk about her mother and able to say that she is dead. for example on  My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mother left us one April morning. Our house was an old farmhouse that my parents had been restoring, room by room. Each night as he waited to hear from my mother, he chipped away at that wall. On the night that we got the bad news-that she was not returning-he pounded and hammered on that wall with a chisel and a hammer."

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Sal goes on this trip to find her mom. By this point Sal knows about the death of her mother and so does her father and he lets her  go on the trip to find her. Sal goes on a trip with her grandparents. On page 2, it states, "when I was locked in a car with my grandparents for 6 days." This is her trip to see her mom. In the end when Sal arives at the place, She sees her moms grave and the bus she crashed in. It did achive the goal because she sees that her mom is gone and a reason why. She cant come back because she is dead

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The two stories of the mothers parallel because both Sal and Phoebes others left them. But the differentiate by Sal"s mother coming home and Phoebes still out missing.

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The mothers were very much alike when it came to their disappearance. One way that there disapearences were very much alike was they both had lost a child. This contributed to the dissapearence of sals mom because on page 139 her mom and dad say
""The baby" she said
"It didn't make it" he said
"I'll hold the baby" she said
"It didn't make it" he repeated"
As you can see Sal's mom is very sensitive and because her sensitivity builds up through out the book, especially about the baby, she ends up leaving/disappearing to Idaho. The disappearance of Pheobe's mom had to do with loosing a child because on page 234 when mrs. Winterbottom came back from her dissapearence she came in with the lunatic and said "Mike is my son." ...  "I had to give him up for adoption..." so, she had to leave to meet up with him.Pheobes mother lost a child but in a different way than Sal's mom.

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Sal faces her fear with her mother by going on the trip with her grandparents. To face the fact that her mom was dead. Phoebe dealt with her mom missing by thinking all the possibility's. For example on pg 148 "I wanted to jump up and say phoebe's mother is missing. Their family structure was somewhat the same because while the moms were missing it was just the daughters and dad's.

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Sal's dad let her go on this trip because Sal wanted to "see" her mother once again. Also because when loved ones pass away you still feel a mental connection to them so Sal wanted to feel this again. On page 253 Sal said "...on a little hill overlooking the river and the valley, was my mothers grave" This shows that she did go there for what she wanted to complete, to see her mother again, she completed this because she saw her grave stone.

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Sal's father was willing to send her on the trip because Sal still believed that her mother was alive so he wanted her to get closer that she isn't alive. Yes I do believe that what happened did achieve its intended purpose because Sal's fathers purpose was to give her closer and for her to stop worrying and wondering when she was going to see her mom again. On page 253-254 is states ..."I knew , by myself and for myself, that she was not coming back." Which shows that it did achieve her father intended purpose of the trip.

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Both the mother were parallel in some ways and also very different in ways. One way the are parallel is how the both go missing and both of there families are devastated. We learn in the beginning of the book that Sal's mom is gone but on page 116 and 117 that Phoebe's mom is gone. They are also very different because on pages 253-554 we find out that Sal's mother died and will not come back but on page 234 Phoebe's mom comes. Another difference is we learn why Phoebe's mom left but we still don't learn exactly why Sal's mom left. That's how the mother are parallel and different.

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I agree with Kyle that Sal's dad sent Sal to get closure. She needed to see the bus to face that her mother was dead.

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Sal's father let her go on the trip with her grandparents. He was willing to let her go so she could get closure on her mothers death. During the end of the book in chapter 43 Sal sees the bus where her mother died. Later on in the book on page 253-254 Sal goes to see her mothers grave and says,
"... I knew by myself, and for myself, she was not coming back." Even though Sal will never see her mother again, the trip achieved its purpose because she now knows for sure, that her mother isn't coming back .

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The two mothers stories parallel. For example they both leave their families with out giving a heads up. Even thought they have this similarity the are different because Sal's mom dies and Phoebes mother comes back. On page 254 Sal says "... she was not coming back." On page 232-233 Phoebes mother comes back because in the text it say " she looked magnificent, but she did not look like Phoebes mother." Through out the book the girls learn that their mothers didn't leave because of them like they thought.

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Her father knows that his wife is dead, but does Sal know too? Many times the author hints at Sal’s knowledge of her mother without actually saying that her mother is dead. For example when Sal says “the night we got bad news-that she was not returning,” it can be inferred that her not returning means that she is dead. If Sal knew that her mother was dead why was her father willing to send on the trip? He wanted for Sal to be with her mother spiritually for her birthday.

When she is at her mothers grave she hears a "true, sweet birdsong". This is the author hinting at her mother because her mother was "true," and "sweet". Even though her mother isn't physically there the bird is a symbol of her mother being there spiritually. I feel that the trip did achieve its intended purpose even though there were some things that didn't go how they thought they would go (Gram's stroke, Sal having to drive herself from the hospital to her mothers grave on the scary road, etc.) because she got to spiritually see/ be with her mother.

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Sal and Pheobe's stories connect in many ways. One of these ways is that they both experience growing pains as their mothers leave because it is a big change to adapt to and it causes a lot of fear. Their deepest fear is that their lives wouldn't go back to how it was before their mothers left. They say/think things like "I wanted everything to be like it was," but nothing ended up being "like it was,". Their lives changed dramatically. After Sal's mom died they away moved from Bybanks, Kentucky and were introduced a whole life without Sal's mother. When Pheobe's mom returned she brought an entire new family member with her. They learned to accept the change that was given to them and faced the fear that they had . Everything ended up turning out fine in the end for both of them.

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Sal's father let her go on the trip because he felt like Sal needed to see what her mother experienced on her trip right before she died. On pg. 253-254 Sal says,
"... I knew by myself, and for myself, she was not coming back." I think that it did achieve its intended purpose because now Sal knows for certain that her mother was not coming back even though she already knew her mother was dead, she needed to be sure that she was not coming home.

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Sal's dad did not go to the trip because he had already seen and talked to Sal's Mom. In reality, she is dead. At the end, Sal does not get to see her because of her Mom dying; Gram dies on the trip as well. I believe that her trip was purposeful for trying to show that the stories that she told of Phoebe's theories taught a lesson that although it may be crazy, it may not be close from the truth.

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The mother's stories were opposites by these things: How the daughters theorized what was going to happen when the found them, what they found from it, and how the dealt with it. Phoebe theorized that her mother was kidnapped by a lunatic, found that the lunatic and her mother had been related, and hated her mother for it. Sal came to go talk to her Mother without her Father, thinking that her Dad had already talked to her Mom and thinking that her Mom ran away because she could not handle it anymore. She found that her Mom died and she just thought that all the stories of Phoebe's crazy theories just represented that sometimes things can be like that.

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in the text, there is not just physical pain, but emotional growing pains as well. the longer her mother is gone, the more sal realizes she is not coming back. for example on page 3, it says " On the night that we got the bad new that she was not returning..." sal is upset here and the reader knows that. phoebes mom does not look anything like what she used to, and pheobe recognizes that because her mom was not a big part of her life.

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Sal's father lets her go on the trip because he knows that she needs closer. However later we find out that her mom is actually dead and That her father was talking to her mother before. I also feel the trip was not purposeful because Gram ends up dying on the trip and Sal finds out  her mother was talking to her father and that she just left for example on page 5 you read that ''dad wanted to be alone with the red-headed Margret cadaver. he had already seen momma and he had not taken me." . For example you know that sals dad wanted her to believe that her mom was dead and that's why he moved them in chapter one one page one Sal says ''Just over a year ago my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings. However He was in contact with her after she left so he let her go not only because he felt guilty but because he felt she would need some sort of closer

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The story of the two mothers was completely different. They were different because of the way they left, how they Girls theorized and how both girls would react when they found them. Sal thought that her mother was dead and that she died on the trip. I know this because on page 5 Sal lists her reason for going ''gram and gramps wanted to see momma who was resting peacefully in Lewiston Idaho.  While phoebe thought that her mother was kidnapped by the lunatic. When sal finds that her mother was dead she felt upset knowing that it was real. She is also upset that her mother just left. However Phoebe is mad at her mother when she finds out that she left willingly and that the lunatic was related to her. Both mothers story's were very different but also similar in the sense that they both went missing and both girls were looking for them in different ways they are also similar in that they were both found in the end.

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When saying that the girls are expierencing '' growing pains", they might be growing physically but what the author is really talking about is how they are experiencing growing pains emotionally because they are going through hard changes. For example, Sal is going through growing pains because of her mother, on page 3 when it said " That night we got the bad news- he pounded on the wall with a chisel and a hammer." That shows that they had expierenced something major which lead to "growing pains." Also with Pheobe on page 151 it showed many times of her going through a hard time because of her mother being gone. For example when she said " Maybe I should stay home. I think I should be here if she calls." you can tell she's going through hard times/ growing pains with her mother. 

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When saying that the girls are expierencing '' growing pains", they might be growing physically but what the author is really talking about is how they are experiencing growing pains emotionally because they are going through hard changes. For example, Sal is going through growing pains because of her mother, on page 3 when it said " That night we got the bad news- he pounded on the wall with a chisel and a hammer." That shows that they had expierenced something major which lead to "growing pains." Also with Pheobe on page 151 it showed many times of her going through a hard time because of her mother being gone. For example when she said " Maybe I should stay home. I think I should be here if she calls." you can tell she's going through hard times/ growing pains with her mother. 

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Austin Cremen

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I think the mothers parallel in many ways because for one they both leave there families including there daughters. Sal's mother leaves her in the beginning of the story while phoebe's mother left her around the middle of the story. But they are different because Sal's mother actually came back to her when phoebe's mother didn't. On page 5 it says "Gram and Gramps wanted to see momma, who was resting peacefully in Lewiston, Idaho" Also on page 172 it said " or possibly a kidnapping. But the kidnapping might turn into a murder