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. Perseverance is an important factor that helps individuals get past challenging environments, …show more content…
For instance, “Uncle had helped him get through the desert that way, bit by bit, one step at the time. Perhaps… perhaps Salva could get through life at camp.”(72) This shows that Salva is going to walk to the refugee camp with all the strength he has without the help of his uncle who has been supporting him all the way. In addition, another example would be, “Nya’s job at the lake camp was the same as home: to fetch water. With her hands, she would dig, a hole in the damp clay of lakebed. She kept digging, scooping out handfuls of clay until the hole was as deep as her own. The clay got wetter as she dug, until, at last water began to seep into the bottom of the hole.”(26-27) Nya goes on her own to fetch water each day, she keeps on going without help. Even though she struggles Nya manages to past that hurdle all on her own, this represents that Nya is being independent in the story. To conclude with the last piece of evidence, “All those eyes looking at him… but every face interested in what he had to say. It was the same here. The audience had come to school cafeteria because they wanted to hear him. Thinking of that made him feel a little better, and he spoke into the mike again.” The passage represents Salva being able to go up in an audience all by himself and speaking up towards the people who have came to the school cafeteria to hear him. Independence allows the two main protagonists, Salva and Nya, to go off on their own with the experience there have gone through giving them to do whatever all by
“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 journey is the act of travelling from one place to another. Physical journeys in particular involve this simple process, though a physical journey includes more than just movement. Also involved are the challenges and obstacles which face the traveller emotionally. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, and Ahn Do’s memoir, The Happiest Refugee, both exhibit this concept of an underlying journey that lays the fundamental bulding blocks of characters. These two texts offer an insight of the emotional side of a journey.
Every single person on this experience hardships and uses perseverance to overcome it. Linda Sue Park writes a historical fiction called A Long Walk to Water, which depicts how the quality of perseverance can lead a person to achieve their goal despite difficult circumstances. Park’s story of Salva Dut and the Lost Boys of Sudan demonstrates how these young men used perseverance to complete their quest for safety despite walking thousands of miles and being near-starvation.
Survival stories have many people facing lots of challenges. Today I will be looking at Brian from Brian’s winter by Gary Paulsen and Buck from Call of the Wild by Jack London. We are going to be look at how they develop the personal traits we all know as a characters traits. I will be discussing the way they act towards nature. Also how they act towards the cold. Finally I will be talking about how they are acting in their situations.
Many people around the world have experienced a loss of family due to tragic wars. In A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park she shows how Salva loses his family and friends and is depressed from the tragic war that threatens his survival in Southern Sudan. The factors that made survival possible for Salva was his persistence and determination, his ability to preserve food, and show caution in dangerous situations.
Imagine if you were a eleven year old girl having to be the one the trust and put everything on your shoulders.Perseverance is when someone does something even though they know it’s difficult.The breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is about this girl who only wants to be free from the rough times in Kabul.Parvana shows perseverance throughout the book in many different ways.
Sometimes there are hurdles in life that require great courage to overcome. We must utilize our inner strengths to motivate these courageous actions. Loren Eiseley sets an example of this in The Running Man- a chapter from his autobiography, All the Strange Hours. In this essay he reveals memories that show his lonely childhood which gives him the courage to overcome his problems.
“Resolve must be the firmer, spirit the bolder, courage the greater, as our strength grows less.” (Anonymous). The stories of The Revenant and The Open Boat use the idea of persevering as a main staple to design their stories around. The authors of these stories, Michael Punke and Stephen Crane, respectively, use characterization to emphasize and convey the theme of “Humans posses a spirit which must persevere”. This theme can be seen in the characters through their; physical challenges, mental challenges, and the loss of hope.
The theme of this novel centers around survival and the will to survive, as the stranded Pi fights for his will to carry on and survive alone on a lifeboat with animals.
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.
These timeless tales relate a message that readers throughout the ages can understand and relate to. While each of these tales is not exactly alike, they do share a common core of events. Some event and or character flaw necessitates a journey of some kind, whether it is an actual physical journey or a metaphorical one. The hardships and obstacles encountered on said journey lead to spiritual growth and build character. Rarely does a person find himself unchanged once the journey is over.
Bethany Hamilton laid on her board eyes glassing over, her breathing steady as she murmured to her best friends dad “Get me to the truck please,” as she fought against the drowsiness threatening to overtake her consciousness determined to stay awake. It took all of Bethanies will, determination, and calmness to stay awake after that shark had taken her arm and part of her surf board. Bethanies story illustrates all the traits needed for survival a strong will, determination, and calmness combine to keep a person alive with their will, stay true to their set goal, and have peace in their time of survival.
This is what the young adult feels when they are coerced to leave their family or the place where they grew up enduring a magnificent kind of suffering, which these authors aim to convey in their books. Due to the dictatorial decisions that Lakshmi’s stepfather greedily makes and the bitter reality of her family’s poverty, Lakshmi was forced to leave her mother, Ama, and her village in the mountain where her childhood was spent, in order to work and earn money. Her departure coupled with what she confronted in the Happiness House, sexual slavery, are persuasive reasons that lead Lakshmi to complete her narration of the story with some meaningful expressions about the sense of suffering. On the other hand, Karana has something that is common but more sad, because all of her people abandoned her. While all the people on the island have decided to depart and the ship was about to sail, Kanara jumped from the ship to pick her brother up. Unfortunately, the ship did not return for the two stranded children, so they start a painful story of struggle on an isolated island that is full of wild and hungry dogs. That action indicates a tragic situation in which a girl suffered from loneliness for almost 18 years. A Long Walk to Water portrays how the fighting of an authoritarian regime against rebels vandalized the country of Sudan causing an essential reason for citizens to leave.
We are all tested everyday to overcome unique challenges and obstacles that are presented in our lives. By realizing what we are grateful for we can enjoy great blessings, successes, and experience great wonders and happiness in our lives. However, none of us are immune to the difficulties and challenges that will occasionally come our way, to make the journey difficult at times, and to test ourselves. The three runners depended on a camaraderie to help them through difficult times, just as we depend on one another, our families, our leaders, and our friends to help us through challenging
I dragged my feet through the parking lot, kicking up dust as I go. I dreaded going to practice everyday, but here I am. I sigh as I start the long walk across the empty fields to get to our practice spot. Everyday, I struggled to make it through the long practices, not because I was out of shape, but because I was so unhappy with what I was doing. Every weekend, I tried anything I could to get out of the games, but nonetheless I always showed up, ready to sit the bench for the entirety of our ninety minute game.