![]() ![]() ![]() The proverbial phrase about withholding judgment until you've "walked two moons in someone's moccasins" or "walked a mile in their shoes" is about trying to imagine circumstances from someone else's perspective, feel how they feel about a situation, and understand how those feelings may lead them to act a certain way or make certain decisions. Partridge about the messages, she says, "I thought they would be grandiful surprises for you-like fortune cookies, only I didn't have any cookies to put them in" (253). Partridge later explicitly explains her actions using the metaphor of fortune cookies. Partridge leaving cryptic, moral messages on the Winterbottoms' porch-one of which is the same message to which Creech attributes the title and a portion of the inspiration for the novel. Creech has stated that while writing a sequel to Absolutely Normal Chaos, the story of Sal emerged, and as Sal's story materialized, she received a fortune cookie that read, "Don't judge a man until you walk two moons in his moccasins." This origin story works its way into the novel in a very literal way in the form of Mrs. The core theme of the novel, as evident from the origin of its title, Walk Two Moons, is the idea of empathy. ![]()
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