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Comparing 'The Guest And Walk Two Moons'
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Don’t judge a someone until you really know them this a life lesson taught in the story “The Guest” and the book Walk Two Moons. The lessons in the two stories reveal a theme of”Don’t judge someone until you Know them.” These two stories show the same theme to their audiences, but they each go about teaching a lesson in different ways.
The theme is developed In the book Walk Two Moons cause Sal kept thinking(believing) that Mrs. Cadaver was a axe chopping murder. And Sal is worried that Mrs.cadaver chopped up her husband and buried him under the Rhododendron bush. I know this because it says in the book”and her husband is dead”. But she did not murder him,”Her husband died when a drunk driver rammed into him. Peebe feels

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