In the book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, Salva goes through a lot of loss and gains hope and persistence, which he learns will be necessary to succeed. This included the loss of loved ones, harsh changes in the weather, and the doubt of his ability which this helped him move through his long journey. In Linda Sue Park’s book, Salva deals with these obstacles, and other plot events by using hope and persistence which illustrates the main idea of the book. Facing the loss of loved ones
Billal Ibrahim Block #3 A Long Walk To Water, Literary Analysis Essay In the book, A Long Walk To Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva realizes that pain is part of life and he just has to push through it. Salva learned while walking through the desert, if you want to go the way you go, pain is sometimes in the path, you just have to push through it. “The first day in the desert felt like the longest day Salva had ever lived through. The sun was relentless and eternal: There was neither a wisp
safety from bombs, men with guns and the lack of water. An eleven year old girl walking 8 hours a day for dirty, diseased filled water. These are the stories of Nya and Salva, two children from southern Sudan in the story A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Water can be positive or negative, helpful or unhelpful, or even mean the difference between life and death. For example, Akeer gets sick from drinking the water that Nya carries from the pond everyday. Nya and her family then have to walk to
Sudan has little amount of water, people have to walk twice a day to a pond just to get a bucket of muddy water. The title of the book is “Long Walk to Water” and the book is written by Linda Sue Park. The book is about a boy named Salva, who ages throughout the book while walking away from the war. Salva ends up three different refugee camps and while in the third refugee camp, Salva is selected to go to America. Salva survived being a leader, new culture, and dangers. A survival factor that Slava
To begin with, I will be informing and reviewing the book A Long Walk to Water. The Author of this book is Linda Sue Park. This book has two main genres which are realistic fiction and nonfiction. The reason this story has two genres is because it revolves around two characters with their own story. In A Long Walk to Water the main characters are Salva, Nya, Jewiir and Marial. Jewiir plays an important role in the book because his actions affect Salva as well as protect him. He is also the uncle
In the story, A Long Walk to Waters, written by Linda Sue Park, the readers are introduced to many different individuals that were able to survive challenging environments. Those individuals used those factors, perseverance, cooperation, and independence. Those factors have allowed individuals to make it past through the harsh environments throughout their journey. Perseverance shows how those individuals kept on going without giving up. Meanwhile, cooperation represents how struggling individuals
wild. They teach the reader to never give up. The main characters, Salva and Buck are both determined and show great leadership. Although written more than 100 years apart, the novels Call of the Wild by Jack London and a Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park contain many similarities in characterization, plot, and theme. Buck and Salva are alike in many different ways. In the beginning of the books they both show determination. Buck never gives up and always does what he has to do to survive. “He
miles just to fetch something people can walk eight stairs to grab it. A ton of people are able to drive a car around place to place; meanwhile, others have to walk and just focus on taking one step at a time. In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva a boy from Southern Sudan, Africa in 1985 is in the middle of a Civil War and is running away and travels on foot to Ethiopia to a Refugee Camp. Nya, a young girl from Southern Sudan in 2008 has to walk eight hours twice every day just
hunger or die from dehydration. But let me tell you about a young man who survived the harsh and deadly war. A Long Walk to Water is written by Linda Sue Park. Linda Sue Park is an American author who wrote this book after learning the true story of Slava Arrik. A Long Walk to Water is written based on the lives of both Salva and a young girl named Nya. Linda explains in detail about both of their troubles the war is giving them and their family and the struggle within the nature and environment
The Basis of Life, Water Is water our most precious resource? In the novel A Long Walk to Water, writer Linda Sue Parks writes about two young children named Nya and Salva who live in Southern Sudan. Their biggest challenge is finding water to drink. Nya and Salva must hunt for the nearest water and conserve it for their long journey home. Without water, extreme dehydration and even death may occur. I believe water is our most precious resource. Peers may claim that hope is our most precious
Have you ever had to walk a long long ways for something or to see something, if you have this story might just take you by surprise. The story that you are about to get an analysis on is called “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. In the dual perspective story there are two main characters; Nya, a fictional character, and Salva, a real boy living in the middle to late 80s in Southern Sudan. During the story the characters face many obstacles, some being bigger and rougher than others. Nya
lot of madness going on in the country. Finally, you just don’t know what to do! That is what exactly happened to an 11 year old Dinka, and Dinka is a type of tribe in south Sudan called a Dinka and his name is Salva Dut. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park explains what happened to Salva on his journey all the way from South Sudan to America and the challenges he faced on his journey. Salva survives through his persistence, his luck, and his uncle. Salva has to lead the lost boys to a refugee camp
Someone once said,“In my life, I’ve lived, I’ve loved, I’ve lost, I’ve missed, I’ve hurt, I’ve trusted, I’ve made mistakes, but most of all I’ve learned.” This quote relates to Walk Two Moons because Salamanca lived a hard life because she loved her family, she trusted her friend Phoebe. And the most important of all of these, is that Sal and Phoebe both lost their mothers but only Phoebe’s came back home. Sal’s mom died in a tragic accident. In the story Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, two major
A man is lost in the Sahara desert. He has been walking for days after his camels have died of dehydration. His clothes are tattered and dirty. He walks and walks, searching for water. At last, he looks out towards the horizon and sees the twinkling reflection of water; it seems like a huge body of water, a pond of some sort. Tired and dehydrated, the tattered man breaks into a sprint as he runs towards this lifesaver; however, as he keeps on walking, the water seems to always be out of his reach
spend as much time with family and friends as possible, not knowing when you would see them next. During a war people rely on family and friends to get through the hard times. During a war, friends can support, protect and comfort each other. In Linda Sue Park’s “When My Name was Keoko” one of the main characters, Sun-hee comforts her friend after her brother has been drafted into the war. Her friend was thought to have betrayed Korea, even though she had not. Even when her friend was thought to have
Salva’s Journey Through the Sudanese Civil War The African state of Sudan was plagued by a civil war as written about in Linda Sue Park’s “A Long Walk to Water.” This book follows a boy named Salva from present day South Sudan. The book starts in 1985 when Salva is 11 years old. Salva is a survivor. He endured the Civil war, Dangerous African Wilds, and the Gilo River. The first major thing that troubled Salva was the Civil War. It led to an attack on his school, soldiers recruiting people from
A Long Walk to Water by _____ follows the stories of two children in Sudan. Salva’s is set in 198__; Nya’s in 2008. The focus is on Salva who is 11 at the beginning of the story and follows his life as a refugee, fleeing from the war, and what his life is like once he moves to America. Nya’s (shorter) story focuses on her daily treks for water and the well being dug in her village. Her story also concerns her younger sister ______, who contracts a parasite from the dirty water and, as part of her
The late nineteenth century play, Salomé written by Oscar Wilde depicts the Biblical story of Salomé, the stepdaughter of Herod, Tetrarch of Judaea. Herod feared Jokanaan, the prophet knowing that he was just and holy and imprisoned him in a deep cistern as he had condemned his marriage to Herodias, wife of his brother Philip. Driven by her desire to touch and kiss Jokanaan who shuns her because she is Herodias’s daughter, Salomé yields to her stepfather’s wishes and dances the dance of the seven
Essay Linda Sue Park’s novel “A Long Walk To Water” is about the thousands of Lost Boys in Southern Sudan. Who had to run away from their villages and families due to the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1980’s. Park’s primary character, Salva is inspired on a real boy who survived the long journey even though there were challenges in the war, missing his family, and the malicious enviorment of South Sudan. Although there were challenges there were people who helped him. Salva got help from an old
“ Or should they begin the long hard walk, and hope they reached hep in time?” A book “ A Long Walk To Water “ is when Salva and the lost boys go through difficult times in South Sudan. Nya had to walk miles a day for water. It happened around 1985-2009. There was a war in Sudan, and they were facing challenges. Love, unity, and perseverance were the most important values Nya and Salva needed to survive. First, Nya and Salva both needed love to survive. One example on page 45 is “ Nya’s mother