Salva's Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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Essay Linda Sue Park’s novel “A Long Walk To Water” is about the thousands of Lost Boys in Southern Sudan. Who had to run away from their villages and families due to the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1980’s. Park’s primary character, Salva is inspired on a real boy who survived the long journey even though there were challenges in the war, missing his family, and the malicious enviorment of South Sudan. Although there were challenges there were people who helped him. Salva got help from an old lady, some strangers, and from his Uncle. Salva got help from an old lady which helped him survive in the wild. “Salva stayed in the womans barn again that night.” the old lady helped him by giving a temporary shelter. The lady also gave Salva peanuts …show more content…

“Already, Salva could tell…because he had a gun, Uncle was seen by the group as a leader” Salva feels safe because his Uncle is there to protect him..When Salva and the group reached the fishing community in the lake the people there gave Salva and his Uncle lots of food. That helped Salva because he got food and that other people see Uncle as a leader not only in his group.Salva thought that the bandits would leave them alone because they already robbed the group but one of the men aimed his gun at Uncle then he shot him three times. Even though Salva had a great loss the loss of his Uncle made him a lot stronger. Salva and Uncle were very close and Unlce helps Salva survive in the wild. Salva got help from a lot of people to help him survive in the wild. Uncle is a very important part of Salva’s survival by protecting him comforting him, and providing for him. The old lady was also important by giving him shelter and food. Salva also got help from a bunch of strangers like the Jur-chol tribe when they gave him honey. When Salva grew up he went to New York to learn he even joined a volleyball team. He even found his parents and he went back to South Sudan to be with

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