Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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Salva Survival:
His Persistence, His Luck, and His Uncle

You're in South Sudan with your uncle and some other people help you don’t know, you also you don’t know what to do and, there is a war going on also, there is a 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 which is though because it all relies on the leader to get his people to safety and survive even though it …show more content…

Salva and the group were going through lion country and Salva’s uncle was there to protect him and that was exactly what he did. “Salva I have a gun. I will shoot any lion that comes near”. (41) This is an example of Salva being lucky because if his uncle didn’t have a gun then Salva could have gotten killed by the lion just like Marial got killed by a lion. Then later, Salva and the group were going through the desert and they didn’t have a lot of water. And so Salva was trying to give his water away but luckily his uncle was there to tell him what the right thing to do which was for Salva to not give away his water. “If you give them your water, You will not have for yourself! The same voice shouted. “It’s useless they will die, and you will die with them”. (56) This is another example of Salva’s uncle who helped him because if he wasn’t there then Salva would have probably given them his water and he would have died so basically Salva was really lucky his uncle was there with him or else he would have

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