A Long Walk To Water Quotes

Life in South Sudan There are many people that can’t have what you do. When you sit there and think about how poor you are and how much you don’t have you should really be thinking of the people that have even less. Linda Sue Parks was one of the people that did and she wrote a book called A Long Walk to Water which is a true story. In the novel there is a young boy named Salva Dut. Salva Dut was an 11 year old boy who was separated from his family because of a school shooting. This happened in Sudan which is now South Sudan because of war. In hopes that he finds his family again he will walk and walk everyday. Salva also faces many challenging things while he’s walking such as finding food and water, avoiding gunmen, and wild animals. Salva had a lot of accomplishments on his way too like leading 1500 lost boys of Sudan to a refugee camp by the Gilo River, then he goes to America seven years later and lives with a family in New York, and he finds his father many years later and starts a group called Water

He has made so many accomplishments. He led 1500 lost boys to a refugee camp by the Gilo River. This is an accomplishment because it’s harder than you think to survive in the desert let alone led that many people at the same time. “Salva and a few other young men walked for months”(p.85). He went to America seven years later. This is an accomplishment because he got to go to a place much better than where he was just at. “Now Salva’s arms were piled high with new clothes”(p.92). He starts a group to build wells in Sudan called Water for South Sudan. This is an accomplishment because now he gets to save many other people from growing up like he had to. Even better than that he found his father. This is the most important accomplishment because it is the reason he walk so much for so long. “I am looking for a patient named Mawien Dut Ariik”(p.102). The challenges helped Salva Dut get to his