Salva Dutt is just one of the many lost boys traveling from Southern Sudan to safety in hopes of escaping the 2nd Sudanese civil war. Unlike many of the lost boys, Salva survived the challenges in Southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya, and eventually made it to safety in America. In the book A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, the main character Salva is growing up in the middle of the second Sudanese Civil War. Salva escapes the war when it comes to his village, but soon faces other struggles along the way; he is all alone with no family, and is not sure where he is going or how he is going to escape the hostile environment of Southern Sudan and survive the war. Along the way, Salva met others who were able to help him make it to safety. …show more content…
One of the times we can see this is when Salva is nervous being all alone; he is traveling in a group with others but knows none of the people. He is longing to find his family, or at least someone he knows. Salva doesn't find his family, but does find someone who is able to help him, Buksa. Buksa manages to find some of their first food, honey. The author describes this moment when it says, “Buksa's smile is even bigger now. ‘you see that?’ He pointed up at the branches of the tree. The ‘Beehive’ is a snare. A fine large one.’ Honey! This night they will feast!’”( Park, 24). Salva’s friend provided him and others with relief by finding them food- honey, Salva would have starved otherwise if it weren't for Buksa being able to find them honey to eat.Later on Salva meets Another friend named Mariel. Mariel keeps Salva company since he has no family and Buksa appears to be gone now. “I’m Salva.’ ‘I’m Mariel.’ It was good to make a friend. Mariel put his arm around Salva’s shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking.” (Park, 30). Having a friend is nice because it provides you with someone who can help you and keep you company in hard times. Mariel sensed that Salva was feeling upset, so he put his arm around him. Staying calm is important in tough situations, and friends can help you do that. Salva's friends were just one of the factors that made …show more content…
Reading is a very important skill in life. At times, it can be a huge part of survival. Which is why it was very important that Salva met Michal and was able to learn English,“. Michal spoke to Salva. ‘You seem interested in learning English,’ he said. ‘How’d you like to learn to read?’( Park, 86). This quote shows that friends, family, or other people you know can help with survival. Learning to read is very important because if you don't know how to read you won't be able to read signs, or know the laws, it is also important to be able to speak English. If you can’t you won't be able to communicate with others. Knowing how to read is also a way to find out good news and know where you are going and what to do, if Salva did not know how to read he would never know he was going to New York. “The aid worker explained this to Salva and the eight other boys he would be traveling with. The women spoke mostly English”,(Park, 91). If Salva did not know English, he would never have been able to understand the directions the women were giving Salva and the other refugees. It was important that Salva knew what to do so he could get to the U.S. safely and finally escape the danger of Southern Sudan. As you can see, Michal made survival possible for Salva by teaching him to read and speak English. If it weren't for Michal, Salva would never have made it to his new
Jimmy Dean once advised, “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination.” The novel A Long Walk to Water authored by Linda Sue Park, is a work of realistic historical fiction and a dual narrative focused on adjusting to change. One storyline is about a young eleven year old girl named Nya who is apart of the Nuer tribe and lives in Sudan. Nya lives the life of a young Sudanese girls because they collect water for their family every day. The other storyline is about an eleven year old boy named Salva who is in the Dinka tribe and lives in Sudan, but travels throughout many countries and states in his life. Salva’s story line shows how getting attacked by rebels and escaping from civil war changed his and many others’ lives. Both characters face many changes throughout the story. Linda Sue Park wants readers to know to accept change for good or bad.
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The book “A Long Way From Chicago” is an adventurous and funny story. The story takes place at Joey Dowdel’s Grandmothers farm house in the country. Joey and his sister Mary Alice were sent to their Grandma’s house during the summer because their parents had to go to Canada for their work. At first, Joey felt uncomfortable with his Grandmother because he had never met her before but eventually he got to know her and they became close friends.
Summary and Response to Barbara Kingsolver’s “Called Home” In “Called Home”, the first chapter of the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver presents her concerns about America's lack of food knowledge, sustainable practices, and food culture. Kingsolver introduces her argument for the benefits of adopting a local food culture by using statistics, witty anecdotal evidence, and logic to appeal to a wide casual reading audience. Her friendly tone and trenchant criticism of America's current food practices combine to deliver a convincing argument that a food culture would improve conditions concerning health and sustainability.
Initially, Elisabeth is the matriarch of the four generations of women talked about in the story. Elisabeth works in the house, but she’s married to a field slave and has three daughters. Not much insight is given on Elisabeth and her feelings, yet through the narration it is as if she lived vicariously through her youngest daughter, Suzette: “It was as if her mother were the one who had just had her first communion not Suzette” (20) Even though Elisabeth too worked in the house, Suzette had more privileges than her mother and the other slaves. Elisabeth represented the strength and the pride of her people: “You have a mother and a father both, and they don’t live up to the [plantation] house” (25). She would constantly remind Suzette of her real family, which signifies the remembrance of a history of people and their roots. It is up to Suzette to keep the heritage even through the latter miscegenation of the generations to come.
“All of the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.” Walt Disney. The books A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, a fictional book, and Iqbal a fictional book, share the same theory. A Long Walk to Water is a book about the true story of Salva; a little boy that gets separated from his family because of the war in South Sudan and later becomes the leader of a group called the Lost Boys of South Sudan. This novel also includes a fictional story of Nya, a little girl that can’t go to school, because she has to walk to the water well twice a day, taking up most of the day. Salva helps Nya get a water well in her village years later by using his organization, Water for South Sudan. Iqbal is the true story of Iqbal Masih, a little boy that became a child slave, but was able to set himself and his friends free from slavery. This book is told in the point of view of Fatima a fictional little girl that was one of the children who was enslaved in the same factory as Iqbal. In each book, the characters grow stronger because of a cultural conflict. Cultural conflicts can force people to become stronger.
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his safety. Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with difficulties of adapting to a new life and of finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the new found family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan, Africa. Home of the brave shows conflicts that Kek faces. He is caught between two worlds, Africa and America. He feels guilty leaving behind his people to live in a distant land especially his mother, who he left in the midst of an attack.
The world is filled with many different types of societies and cultures. This is due to the fact that many people share dissimilar beliefs and ideas, as well as diverse ways of life. People lived under different circumstances and stipulations, therefore forming cultures and societies with ideas they formulated, themselves. These two factors, society and culture, are what motivate people to execute the things that they do. Many times, however, society and culture can cause downgrading effects to an assemblage if ever it is corrupt or prejudiced. Society and culture not only influences the emotions individuals have toward things like age differences, religion, power, and equality but also the actions they perform as a result.
The first encounter with Helga Crane, Nella Larsen’s protagonist in the novel Quicksand, introduces the heroine unwinding after a day of work in a dimly lit room. She is alone. And while no one else is present in the room, Helga is accompanied by her own thoughts, feelings, and her worrisome perceptions of the world around her. Throughout the novel, it becomes clear that most of Helga’s concerns revolve around two issues- race and sex. Even though there are many human character antagonists that play a significant role in the novel and in the story of Helga Crane, such as her friends, coworkers, relatives, and ultimately even her own children, her race and her sexuality become Helga’s biggest challenges. These two taxing antagonists appear throughout the novel in many subtle forms. It becomes obvious that racial confusion and sexual repression are a substantial source of Helga’s apprehensions and eventually lead to her tragic demise.
In her novel The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey looks at how history can be misconstrued through the more convenient reinterpretation of the person in power, and as such, can become part of our common understanding, not being true knowledge at all, but simply hearsay. In The Daughter of Time Josephine claims that 40 million school books can’t be wrong but then goes on to argue that the traditional view of Richard III as a power obsessed, blood thirsty monster is fiction made credible by Thomas More and given authenticity by William Shakespeare. Inspector Alan Grant looks into the murder of the princes in the tower out of boredom. Tey uses Grant to critique the way history is delivered to the public and the ability of historians to shape facts to present the argument they believe.
Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a collection of anecdotes surrounding her early life growing up as a white girl in British imperialist Africa, leading up to and through her flight across the Atlantic Ocean from East to West, which made her the first woman to do so successfully. Throughout this memoir, Markham exhibits an ache for discovery, travel, and challenge. She never stays in one place for very long and cannot bear the boredom of a stagnant lifestyle. One of the most iconic statements that Beryl Markham makes in West with the Night is:
Who is the birthday party a rite of passage for, the birthday boy or his mother?
The novel, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) written by Sherry Turkle, presents many controversial views, and demonstrating numerous examples of how technology is replacing complex pieces and relationships in our life. The book is slightly divided into two parts with the first focused on social robots and their relationships with people. The second half is much different, focusing on the online world and it’s presence in society. Overall, Turkle makes many personally agreeable and disagreeable points in the book that bring it together as a whole.
Though oftentimes a utopia may seem like a perfect ideal world to live in with no problems, the front that they put up can often be deceiving. Usually what may be viewed as an ideal utopian society can be a dystopia in disguise. Furthermore, what happens if society's rebels choose to fight back against their dystopia and try to change things for the common good? This idea is shown throughout several short stories such as “Repent Harlequin”. Said the Tick Tock Man” by Harlan Ellison, The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson all feature societies under ideological control.
In the book by Carl Rogers, A Way of Being, Rogers describes his life in the way he sees it as an older gentleman in his seventies. In the book Rogers discusses the changes he sees that he has made throughout the duration of his life. The book written by Rogers, as he describes it is not a set down written book in the likes of an autobiography, but is rather a series of papers which he has written and has linked together. Rogers breaks his book into four parts.