Walk Two Moons (chpts. 35-44)

When Mrs. Winterbottom finally comes home, Pheobe, Mr. Winterbottom, and Prudence all have different thoughts and reactions. Before Mrs. Winterbottom comes home, Prudence gets a phone call from her mother, saying that she is coming home. Then Mr. Winterbottom and Prudence go into a cleaning frenzy, and start cleaning up the whole house. They later decide that it would look as if they could do well enough without Mrs. Winterbottom, so they messed the whole house up again. When Mrs. Winterbottom finally comes home, Pheobe and Mr. Winterbottom are too nervous to answer the door, so Prudence does. Pheobe goes and meets her mother, and nearly fainted because, there, standing in her doorway, was Mike the lunatic. Sal starts to think that maybe Mike really did kidnap Mrs. Winterbottom, and might be coming to collect his ransom money, or maybe he came to "do away" with the rest of the Winterbottom family. Prudence, well she is a teenager, so she thinks that Mike is handsome, and starts flirting with him. On the other hand, Mr. Winterbottom, is on the verge of thinking that his wife was cheating on him.

Pheobe doesn't like the looks of things when she sees Mike standing in her doorway, because, well, she believes that he is a potential lunatic. Sal has been around Pheobe enough to get herself wound up in Pheobe's tall tales about Mrs. Winterbottom getting kidnapped by the "potential lunatic".Prudence is basically just a teenager, so she flirts with Mike. Then, Mr. Winterbottom starts to think that mybe his wife might be cheating on him mainly because Mike was a guy, and Mrs. Winterbottom seemed to act a friendly with him.

Moreover, I think that Gramps allowed Sal to drive up to Lewiston, Idaho, all by herself, in his car, because he knew that she had this little "deadline" thing about getting to her mother's grave by her birthday. Plus, he probably thought that she would be very upset if she didn't get to see where her mother lay in time, when the were so close. If I was in Gramp's moccasins, I would have done the same thing, too. As Gramps, I would think about how Sal would feel about being late to get to her mother, and other stuff. I would also trust her to drive safely all the way, and not get into trouble.

Lastly, I think that the sheriff in Lewiston did the right thing by taking Sal to her mothers grave, and not to jail. When Sal tells the sheriff about why she was there in the middle of the night, he remembers that he helped get the people trapped in the bus out. So, because of that, he goes and shows Sal where her mother's grave is, because he know that that is why she had drove out in the middle of night to come here: to see her mother's last resting place. I also think that the sheriff didn't bring her to jail because, first of all, it wasn't right to, and third of all, he felt sorry for Sal for losing her mother at such an early age.