Rhema Scott Mx. -. Mason Integrated Language Arts 23 May, 2024 Salva’s Survival MLA Paper The author Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water tells a story about two people, Nya and Salva, who were both dealing with the Sudanese Second Civil War. Throughout the story, Salva has been fighting for his life. For the freedom of the world. A safe refugee camp after being surrounded by his family and friends. Due to luck, Salva survived death. Including the deaths of Marial and Uncle Jewiir. Yet it was difficult to mourn the death of his uncle and friend. Despite these challenges, Salva preserved herself and never stopped moving. Eventually, Salva made it to the refugee camp. To him getting accepted to America. The novel A Long Walk to Water demonstrates …show more content…
Salva’s uncle tells him, “‘Salva, I will stay awake tonight and keep watch’” (Park, 41). This illustrates that Salvatore’s uncle truly loves him and will do anything to protect him from getting into trouble or hurt, even after his death. This improves his chances of survival because, according to Uncle Jewiir, if no one was there to encourage Salva, he would have given up. Additionally, when Salva is sad about the death of Marital caused by the lion, Jewiir encourages him. Salva’s uncle says, “‘Salva, we will soon be out of lion country. Everything will be alright’”(Park, 41). This shows that Uncle Jewiir comforted Salva due to the death of Marian. He assures him that he’ll be alright. Uncle Jewiir's encouragement helped Sal get through these difficult experiences, which also …show more content…
The second factor is the refugee camp. Anytime Salva would see a list of names, he tried not to lose hope. Sometimes he would doubt it, even if it were admitted. On a windy afternoon, Michael, the aid worker, approached Salva and said, “Salva! Come on in and get started quickly! Your name is on the list today! (Park, 89) This illustrates that Salva's worry had come to an end, sending her off to America. Salva was so excited about the news about what Michael had said about him being selected to be admitted to America. “Salva left on his feet and was running even before his friend was speaking. This shows that Sal was so overjoyed about him flying. Off to New York, and he is grateful that he stopped going. Salva never stopped moving; he gave up on the refugee camp, but after all of the pain and loss of his family and friends, staying with the refugee camp helped. Finally, the third paragraph is about how Salva never stopped moving. Salva was sad about his uncle's death, including the death of his wife, and he assumed that his family was dead. Park wrote that “no doubt, beneath his terrible sadness, he felt stronger." Park, 65. The quote explains how there was doubt in Sal’s heart, but instead of giving up, Sal had faith, and he felt stronger. Salva was
One day, Alicia was informed that her brother had been hanged. After Zachary’s death, Alicia was befriended by a woman named Bella. She met many good friends in the ghetto, including a future friend as well as savior, Milek. Months later, Alicia and several other people were rounded up and sent to a prison in Chortkov. Here the conditions were very poor.
Jimmy Dean once advised, “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination.” The novel A Long Walk to Water authored by Linda Sue Park, is a work of realistic historical fiction and a dual narrative focused on adjusting to change. One storyline is about a young eleven year old girl named Nya who is apart of the Nuer tribe and lives in Sudan. Nya lives the life of a young Sudanese girls because they collect water for their family every day. The other storyline is about an eleven year old boy named Salva who is in the Dinka tribe and lives in Sudan, but travels throughout many countries and states in his life. Salva’s story line shows how getting attacked by rebels and escaping from civil war changed his and many others’ lives. Both characters face many changes throughout the story. Linda Sue Park wants readers to know to accept change for good or bad.
As I researched the novel I also learned that the author, Shenaaz Nanji, became a refugee after the expulsion of the Indians of Uganda. This knowledge about the author’s personal experience was a defining factor in how I related to the novel and the impact it had on me. Knowing that she went through the same thing that Sabine experienced in the novel made the story so much more than just a book.
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.
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.
Education should have helped students; however, Derrick Jensen considers current educational system as inefficiency. Schooling offers students tools to live in “the real world”, but then, he questions “what sorts of beings we are creating by the process of schooling” (3). In Walking on Water, Jensen states that “we are told that standardized testing must be imposed to make sure students meet a set of standardized criteria so they will later be able to fit into a world that is itself increasingly standardized” (5). School gives out standardized tests among different subjects to examine how well each student knows about facts and information, and then, uses test scores to evaluate students’ abilities; also, this is how society estimates each
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
Everyday the average American family uses about 400 gallons of water a day. In some countries, the average family is lucky if they can even get enough to fill up a glass. In Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water, we hear the story of a boy in Sudan, named Salva in search of water and refuge. Salva shows that he is a survivor by making it through challenges like, dangerous animals, loss of loved ones, and mother nature. This story takes place during a war in sudan. It forces Salva to leave home and go on a journey with a group of people that he’s never met before.
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.
Lisa Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water is about two Sudanese people: Nya and Salva Dutt. They are on different timelines and face hard challenges. What makes their stories similar are the harsh challenges they go through to get water. Salva, a Dinka boy, becomes a refugee during the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Many people had to flee their villages and homes to get away from war. During the Sudanese war, many families and children had to flee the country. The families had to travel to Ethiopia and stay in refugee camps for a long time. In the novel A Long Walk To Water, Linda Sue Park used and altered history to write a novel about the lost boys and girls of Sudan to tell a story about the life they lived. Linda Sue Park changed or altered history by taking information and facts from the lost girls and the lost boys of Sudan to write a novel about their daily life.
The book “Refugee” is a historical fiction novel written by Alan Gratz. The book is about three children, Josef Landau, Isabel Fernandez, and Mahmoud Bishara. They all live in different decades and different countries, all needing to escape their homes. They all face dangerous challenges, trying to get to a safe location. As their stories unfold, the theme of sacrifice plays a significant role in the stories of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud.