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Tom finds Sal, Gram, and Gramps sitting in the Missouri River. At first, he brandishes a bowie knife at them and declares that the river is private property. But when a water moccasin bites Gram, the boy accompanies her to the hospital and sucks venom out of Gram’s bite on the way. It’s not until he gets word that Gram is okay that he leaves the hospital. Before he goes, he gives Sal his address and finally introduces himself by name. Sal writes to him after she returns to Bybanks, sharing that Gram passed away from a stroke.
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The Boy/Tom Fleet Character Timeline in Walk Two Moons
The timeline below shows where the character The Boy/Tom Fleet appears in Walk Two Moons. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 15
Sal is trying not to think about the postcards when, suddenly, a teenage boy appears on the bank. He has a big bowie knife in his belt, and Gramps...
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The veins in Gramps’s neck are standing out. He tells the boy to watch what Sal can do. Sal picks up another rock and tosses it at...
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...Gram out of the water, tells her to put the snake down, and takes the boy’s knife from his belt. He cuts a slit between the two punctures in Gram’s leg,...
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Chapter 16
...that fear is making them all cantankerous. She slept in the waiting room, and the boy stayed in the waiting room with her. At 6:00 a.m., the boy woke Sal up...
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Chapter 44
...Gloria eventually said she had a headache—and she hasn’t been back. Sal also wrote to Tom Fleet , telling him about Gram. He wrote back offering his condolences and asking to visit...
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