Our goals for the future; the dreams we all want to come true,
often don’t just come by immediately to our rescue. As such, we have to get through our obstacles and reach our goals with small steps. Every grade we catch up with is a step forward in the path to our dream and every year pass is a treasure chest, difficult to open, yet holds great rewards to use further in life. Salva Dut is the founder of a “Water for Sudan,” a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the people of Sudan; an organization which took years to accomplish. The novel, “A Long Walk to Water,” written by Linda Sue Park, portrays his life experience as a victim of The Second Sudanese Civil War. The obstacles he faced to move on towards life are prominently displayed throughout the work.
In the Akobo Desert, Salva
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and his group spent three, whole days walking through the beginning of the desert all the way towards the end, where they’d be able to find refuge.
The desert is absolutely awful, it’s scorching, there’s no water in sight, Salva has to tread through the rocky terrain barefoot, and he even loses his toenail. His late uncle, Jewiir, encourages Salva by creating destinations within the desert that Salva needed to reach. These markers aren’t very far off from Salva’s original positions, but are successive and another is made soon after Salva completes the previous one. Salva manages to cross all of these destinations and manages to persevere all the way through the
desert. The refugee camps have long, empty Nights. In Itang, Salva is grouped up with strangers with absolutely nothing to do. Even though completing a grueling, excruciating walk, Salva even finds himself walking to pass the time. He stays in this bleak, miserable camp for six whole years until being evicted out. Throughout camp life, he thought to himself to get through “just a day at a time.” Variations of this motto appear multiple times throughout the novel. In Ifo, the townsfolk surrounding the camp were hostile and often quarreled with the refugees. Salva spent two years of agony in Ifo before trekking to the Kakuma Refugee Camp, only to find that it was no better. Without his patience and hope for better life, he may as well have just ended everything prematurely before his scheduled flight to Rochester, New York. Even then, he still has to get through the plane flight. . . After many arrangements in time to create “Water for Sudan.” Salva is prepared to build wells for the people of Sudan. The other protagonist in the story, Nya, has a certain nonprofit organization build a well in her village. At the story’s finale, this organization is revealed to be Water for Sudan, and the boss supervising them was shown to be Salva. The crew through the construction of the well, faced obstacles, notably a leak in a bag of water, which was required to run their drill. Salva motivated these workers to fix the leak and encouraged them when they were distraught. He had been doing this routine for quite some time, seeing as construction of this well ended in 2009, and Water for Sudan was founded in 2003. The virtue of patience can lead someone out from the state of accomplishing nothing, being lost, and into reaching their greatest power. Our patience works to better us in the grand finale. Salva uses it to get through his miserable life to completely start a new one. He knows what patience and hope will accomplish in the long run. After all, he quotes “Quitting leads to much less happiness than perseverance and hope.”
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.
of how politics and the quest for personal power interact with a major natural disaster on one of the worlds's major rivers was quite rivetting. Once started, I found the book hard to put down.
In the novel The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the author tells the miraculous story of one woman’s amazing contribution to science. Henrietta Lacks unknowingly provides scientists with a biopsy capable of reproducing cells at a tremendusly fast pace. The story of Henrietta Lacks demonstrates how an individual’s rights can be effortlessly breached when it involves medical science and research. Although her cells have contributed to science in many miraculous ways, there is little known about the woman whose body they derived from. Skloot is a very gifted author whose essential writing technique divides the story into three parts so that she, Henrietta
In the short story The Devil and Tom Walker, written by Washington Irving, the protagonist Tom Walker, is characterized as being a negative man. This is demonstrated through Tom Walker being characterized as being meager, outspoken, fearless, greedy, stubborn, and unloving.
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.
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Eudora Welty presents the short story “A Worn Path” in a remarkable way, revealing a lot of symbolism. It travels around multiple themes throughout the story about an old aged woman walking through a grueling trail to a town to gather medicine for her grandson in Mississippi. This short story takes places in December on a “bright frozen day” where an old Negro woman arises by the name of Phoenix Jackson. I believe she signifies a struggle, but when looking at her a bit deeper, she mostly signifies willpower (Welty, 502). As she goes towards the town on the path, she appears to have walked numerous times before; she has to overcome many problems. What’s important is that with each move she takes it looks to be pretty sluggish, but yet a steady move in the direction of her goal. The story gives an understanding to the determination and confidence of Phoenix Jackson to point out the belief of people in identical lives of endless struggle. In “A Worn Path,” Eudora Welty reveals the idea that sometimes our lives can be a lot like an obstacles course, which are made up of difficulties that we have to overcome somehow.
Our perspective on life can have a significant impact on our life. Depending on how you were raised it can impact your perspective on life very differently than others. For example if you were raised in a home of poverty or drug abuse you are use too that lifestyle when you're young. It wouldn't be till your older you would realize it is not a normal way of life. It shapes our life. In the novel the Glass Castle Jeanette is a perfect example of how your perspective changes throughout life as you experience life in addition to maturing. Her change in life had an unbelievable impact on her life that made her a well round mature adult despite her upbringing in poverty.
I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, and I am on page 302. This portion of the novel is about three newfound half-bloods named Jason, Piper, and Leo. This novel starts off with Jason waking up on a bus, not knowing who he is. Apparently his best friend is a guy named Leo, and he has a girlfriend named Piper. They’re all apart of the same boarding school for troubled kids. They arrive at the grand canyon, when one of their thought to be classmates turns into a storm spirit and tries to kill them, because they are half-bloods. At the time they do not know that they are. Their coach, also known as their Teacher, is actually a Satyr that tries to defend the kids. Jason eliminates the storm spirits with his golden sword, even though he was
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“The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant,” written by W.D. Wetherell, tells the story of a fourteen-year-old boy and the summer in which he met Sheila Mant. After weeks of failed attempts and longing for the older woman who seemed just out of his reach, the boy worked
Persistence pushed him to face his fears and continue the walk. In the middle of the walk to the camp, Salva watched his uncle get robbed and killed. Salva’s self-confidence diminished. On top of his insecurity, the group he traveled with complained about how the Salva was a waste to their limited food supply and abandoned him. However, Salva realized, “There is no one left to help me”.
*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.
The ways women are presented in Northanger Abbey are through the characters of Catherine Morland, Isabella Thorpe, Eleanor Tilney, Mrs Allen, and the mothers of the Morland and Thorpe family, who are the main female characters within this novel. I will be seeing how they are presented through their personalities, character analysis, and the development of the character though out the novel. I will be finding and deciphering scenes, conversations and character description and backing up with quotes to show how Austen has presented women in her novel Northanger Abbey.