A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park was a reading requirement that I was obliged to finish in order to enter a summer camp. I decided why not kill two birds with one stone. Once I received the book, I finished it that very day along with half of my summer reading packet. Though forced to read the novel, I enjoyed the painless experience. To those searching for a simple, uncommon, heart-warming tale, this short novel is what you are looking for. First of all, the novel is shorter than your typical read. With only 121 pages, strong messages are presented in a compact space. In fact, the storytelling is straightforward making the reading experience smooth. Linda Sue Park used short strong sentences throughout her novel for a powerful …show more content…
message. One example of the writing style is, “Nobody. Nothing. They had left him. He was alone” (Park 13) was used to express Salva’s conflict of hiding from the rebels and the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War. Additionally, the format of the novel varies from most typical novels. In brown font is a short passage about Nya taking place in 2008-2009 Southern Sudan. Meanwhile, in black font is Salva’s lengthier narrative set in civil war struck 1985 Southern Sudan towards 2003-2007 Rochester, New York and then to 2009 Southern Sudan. With this unique setup, Salva’s story is presented from the past to Nya’s time where they meet at the very end. Granting the fact that Nya and Salva have different stories, they are united through the need and supply of water. Ultimately, the novel expresses important messages portrayed through Salva’s real life experiences.
While travelling straight into the Akobo desert to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salva’s Uncle Jewiir motivated him by encouraging him to walk one landmark at a time. For instance, “When they reached the bushes, Uncle pointed out a clump of rocks up ahead and told Salva to walk as far as the rocks. After that, a lone acacia...another clump of rocks...a spot bare of everything except sand. Uncle continued this way for the rest of the walk” (Park 54) This method of thinking aided Salva in leading around a thousand of young men and boys to another refugee camp in Kenya. He would think, “A step at a time. One problem at a time -- just figure out this one problem,” (Park 110) and that hope kept him and his caravan driven. Nya struggled with finding clean water at the pond closest to her village which was half a day’s walk from her home, muddy, and contaminated. Routinely, she would journey to the pond twice a day for her family. Her perseverance is another message of the book. She continued her routine hoping that life would be easier one day and it did. Strange men (Salva and his workers) arrived creating a water well streaming with fresh, clean water. By progressively dealing with their problems and persevering, Salva and Nya both received the happy ending they
deserve. Who wouldn’t like to read a simple, uncommon formatted, and poignant tale about a “lost boy” and a filial girl from two different times but with the same home? I was recommended this book, so now I recommend it to others interested in the tragic adventures of one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan.” This short and sweet tale will keep you gripping onto the novel wanting to discover what is to become of our main character. A Long Walk to Water will inspire any welcome to reading something out of the ordinary.
The author Linda Sue Park's book, A Long Walk to Water, tells a story of a boy named Salva who was a lost boy in the Second Sudanese civil war in 1980. Salva managed to survive the war along the way without his family and survived on his own following ways to go on in life no matter what bad situation he was in.
The diverse alternation of point of views also provides the story an effective way to reach out to readers and be felt. The characterisation is effectively done and applied as Sam, Grace, and the other supporting characters play individual, crucial roles in the course of the story. All the elements of a typical young adult novel, consisting of a gap-filled relationship between children and parents, emotion-driven teenagers, and a unique conflict that makes the book distinct from fellow novels, combined with the dangerous consequences of the challenges the couple encounter, make the book different from all other of the same genre. The plot unfolds slowly giving readers enough time to adjust and anticipate the heavy conflict when it arises. It has gotten us so hooked but the only thing we could possibly dislike about it was the slow pace of plot. The anticipation was too much to handle and we were practically buzzing and bouncing to know how the story turns out as we read. It builds the anticipation, excitement, thrill, sadness, grief, loss, and longing in such an effective way to entice and hook readers further into the world of Sam and
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 are able to work together in order to achieve their goal. Last but not least independence shows how individuals can conquer a hurdle by him or herself.
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.
In the book A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael survives and describes his journey while at war. Ishmael was a 13 year old who is forced to become a child soldier. He struggles through a variety of problems. In his journey, he was separated from his family and mostly running for his life. Later on, he has no problem killing people and picking up his gun. In fact, anyone can be evil at any certain time with kids changing, getting drugged, and going back to war.
He was determined to find his family, no matter how hard it was. One piece of evidence to prove this is on page 52, it said, “ The sun was relentless and eternal: There was neither wisp of cloud nor whiff of breeze for relief. Each minute walking in the arid heat felt like an hour. Even breathing became and effort…” This confirms that even though the weather is blazing and super hot, Salva kept walking. This supports the theme because he had perseverance to keep pushing himself, and Uncle supported him too. Also, on page 80, the text mentioned, “ They were traveling through a part of Sudan still plagued by war. The fighting and bombing was worse during the day, so Salva decided that the group should hide when the sun shone and do their walking at night.” This demonstrates that Salva still tries to find a way to guide the group to safety. He is determined to keep the pack moving. Finally, on page 110 it remarked, “ A step at a time. One problem at a time-just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved toward his goal.” This explains how Salva works to solve problems and achieves his goals. This supports the theme because Salva has perseverance to help his people. This is how Salva has perseverance and goes on a long journey to find his
Last but not least, O’Connor confirms that even a short story is a multi-layer compound that on the surface may deter even the most enthusiastic reader, but when handled with more care, it conveys universal truths by means of straightforward or violent situations. She herself wished her message to appeal to the readers who, if careful enough, “(…)will come to see it as something more than an account of a family murdered on the way to Florida.”
O’Connor powerfully made the reader realize that having an epiphany opens up our mind to a clearer insight, and this was seen with the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Mrs. Turpin in “Revelation.” Nonetheless, O’Connor also created characters that obtained a certain type of violence deep within their personality to show the importance of real life experiences within our society. These two short stories show a great amount of emotion and life lessons towards the reader, and O’Connor successfully conveyed her point while using her powerful Southern gothic writing technique.
Green drags the reader right into the text from the very beginning, and very skilfully keeps the reader engaged to the end of the introduction. With varied techniques to convey his message, Green is able to summarize the novel and grab attention in the few opening pages.
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
The Lost Boys of Sudan was about 17,000 boys. Some of the boys died of starvation hunger, dehydration or by getting eaten by animals during the journey to a place of safety. Although this may seem like a made-up story. it wasn’t. It was all real to salva, a lost boy in Sudan who survived the journey. This young boy (Salva) endured long walks to camps across the country, becoming a leader and making a positive impact on water in sudan which was a consistent struggle in Sudan. This boy has been written about in a book called “A Long Walk To Water” By Linda Sue Park. Salva’s life wasn’t easy as we read in the book. Salva has lived and survived with these survival factors: Hope, Persistent and Bravery.
”Families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless — restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do — to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut — anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land. “
*Hassan was crying because of the shame he felt after the encounter with the soldier who said he had slep with his mother at some point.
...reader to walk away, giving anyone the chance who is willing to stand against the injustices of society. She uses her own personal afflictions in order to better create a stronger, individualized woman after the acquisition of hope. She uses her story; she enlists the help of the reader to put justice and hope back into society. Therefore, "Let us begin."
Several facts and stories were repeated almost word for word in different parts of the book, which can either help the reader to tie it all together or confuse the reader. Since Wigger seemed to tie each theme into every part of the book, regardless of what theme he was directly addressing, it made the ideas flow together quite easily. However, the beginning of the book seemed to be just facts without a clear purpose, but this is quickly resolved in the first few pages. Overall, each idea was well placed and the structure was