“.and somehow he was able to keep his wounded feet moving forward, one painful step at a time” (Park, 54). This is from A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. In Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk To Water, the main character Salva is based off of a real person named Salva who is a lost boy from Southern Sudan. A lost boy is someone who had to flee Southern Sudan from war and without family. The story is about Salva’s struggle for survival through his difficult time trying to get to safety. He gets help from several people along the way and somehow, against all odds, makes it to safety in the USA with a new family to help him out. There are many survival factors that make survival possible for Salva in A Long Walk To Water. The three most …show more content…
Uncle keeps him calm during difficult times and Uncle keeps Salva moving through immense pain. When Salva’s group is in lion country and Marial is eaten by a lion, Salva becomes paranoid about lions and is terrified. So Uncle Jewiir calms him down and keeps him calm. A quote that shows how Salva’s Uncle keeps him calm is when he is reassuring Salva, he says, “‘Salva, we will soon be out of lion country. Everything will be alright’” (Park, 41). This proves that the Uncle is a survival factor for Salva because his Uncle was helping him survive by keeping him calm so he can move forward. So he does not get eaten by a lion. Later in the book, Salva’s group goes through the desert and he rips his toenail right off, and it causes him immense pain. So his Uncle has to keep Salva moving, by using his full name. That makes Salva think of his family and think if he stops he will never see them again and that keeps him moving. A quote that shows how …show more content…
He persevered by having everyone do their part on the way to the 1st refugee camp in Kenya. A second way he shows perseverance is when he somehow gets to the refugee camp in Kenya when he does not think he will. Salva is trying to get to the refugee camp in Kenya, and he is the leader of the group. They are all tired from crossing the Gilo River that has crocodiles and there were soldiers shooting at them. Salva had everyone pitch in to get them there. A quote that shows Salva’s perseverance is when he helps the other boys get to the refugee camp in Kenya. He had everybody helping but, “There were times when some of the boys did not want to do their share of the work. Salva would talk to them, coax them, and persuade them. Once in a while he had to speak sternly, or even shout. But he tried not to do this too often” (Park, 81). This quote proves Salva’s perseverance because he could have just said ok and done their work for them. But he got them to do the work, even if he had to shout, he persevered through the challenges and had everyone do their part. Salva is trying to get to the refugee camp in Kenya, but he is faced with difficult challenges. He is tired and weak from swimming across the Gilo River, which has crocodiles and soldiers shooting at the refugees trying to cross. A quote that shows how Salva perseveres through difficult challenges is when he goes to Kenya to get to the refugee
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.
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.
Salva Mawien Dut Ariik was a “Lost boy” during the second Sudanese War and the true story of his journey is also conveyed in A Long Walk to Water. In the beginning of Salva’s story, after Salva’s friend, Marial, died overnight by a lion, Salva was terrified but he urged himself to move on and help his group instead. The text in A Long Walk to Water says, ”It was hard work running back and forth between those cutting and those weaving. But Salva found that the work was helping him feel a little better. He was too busy to worry much. Doing something, even carrying big, awkward piles of slippery reeds was better than doing nothing”, (Park, 44). This demonstrates how Salva was terrified by the incident that happened to his best friend but he was determined to move on and made himself help the others for weaving the boats because now this was for his survival and the remaining refugees’ survival. Salva also understood that the hard work made him feel a little better because when he was busy he didn’t think of the incident with Marial which would also help him get over it and not be bothered by it for a long time.At the end of Salva’s story, after Salva found his dad and learned that his father’s digestive system was riddled with guinea worms due to drinking so much contaminated water and at that time Salva had an
A Long Walk to Water, is a realistic fiction book about perseverance, written by Linda Sue Park. The main characters are Nya and Salva. Both characters try to survive, while Nya is collecting water, and Salva has to walk to safety because his village has been attacked. Nya is Nuer (a tribe) and Salva is Dinka (another tribe). The Dinka and the Nuer have been enemies for hundreds of years. Both characters exemplify the theme of perseverance as they stay calm and determined.
“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.
A Long Walk to Water is an engrossing true story about an African boy named Salva. It takes place in a war ravaged country named South Sudan. Soldiers scour the country, snatching children to join their ranks and burning villages in spite of the government. Salva manages to escape and join a herd of frightened people from his tribe. He encounters his uncle who quickly becomes leader of the group for having a gun and being related to the chief. Salva's uncle teaches him important lessons but meets his demise at the end of a soldier's gun. Later on in the book Salva has to become leader of a group of boys. Then a group of men. Salva shows many characteristics of being a good leader in these situations.
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
Uncle was there for Salva, he fed him and gave Salva a friend and someone to take care of him. Uncle helped Salva a lot like for example, Park states that “None of the travelers had money or anything of value to trade, so they had to beg for food. The exception was Uncle: the fishermen gave him food without having to be asked...Uncle shared his food with Salva… the sugar-cane juice soothed the sharpest edge of Salva’s hunger”(Park,47). Uncle shared his food with Salva and if he didn’t share with Salva, Salva would have not survived. Uncle was a key aspect of Salva’s survival, without Uncle everyone including Salva would die of starvation. Uncle also helped with managing Salva’s water supply. Uncle needed to be there for Salva, to help him with tough decisions that were to complicated for a young child. Park observes, “‘No Salva’, he murmured. ‘You are too small,and not strong enough yet. Without water you will not survive the rest of the walk. Some of the others-they will be able to manage better than you’”(Park,58). Salva was originally going to share his water with the other people who were about to die but Uncle stopped him because without his water he wouldn’t be able to survive. Uncle basically saved Salva’s life because he warned him not to waste his water, but to conserve
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.
Nathanial Hawthorne besieged with his ancestral ties to the Salem Witch Trials and his loathe for a Puritan society, lead him to create an allegory of a young man’s quest and his struggle between good and evil. Hawthorne wrote figuratively about Puritanical ideals, beliefs and social appearance in Young Goodman Brown. Also, the short story is centered on New England’s history, mostly inspired by Puritan beliefs.
*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.
In the historical fiction novel, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva, the main character, is very resilient, and his resilience helps him overcome hardships. Being resilient means he is able to bounce back from difficulties. This is shown in many ways throughout the story. One area where this is shown is towards the beginning of the story, after Salva flees his village because of war. After this, Salva is left by an old woman who was feeding him, and taking care of him.
In the book, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva shows perseverance is key when facing life’s challenges.