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Comparing Walk Two Moons And The Guest
This is a story about Walk Two Moons and “The Guest”. I'm going to be telling you how the themes in both stories are similar and how the authors developed them.

In Walk Two Moon Sal Judges Cadaver because Sal thinks she killed her husband and buried him in the backyard and how her house is decorated it's a pretty convincing she might have did it and she thinks her teacher is in on it later to find out that Margaret did not kill her husband he died in a car accident and her teacher is really Margarets brother after that Sal feels bad for what she thought of Cadaver and her brother. So we see that Sal judged someone before learning about them.

In “The Guest” Mullah Nasreddin is a wise man and a lot of people listens to him for

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