Who Is Salva Alone

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All the events, conflicts, memories, and relationships that Salva has experienced in this novel, shows that Salva is truly alone when he enters the refugee camp. Salva is alone because he has no family of friends left to help him. Salva is also not alone because there are thousands of people her that are in the same situation as Salva, but most of the people have families there. He is truly alone because he has no family of friends to support him because he thinks he is the last person in his family. A text that proves this is “I am alone now. I am all that is left of my family.” When Salva says this, he is surrounded by thousands of people. Even though he is surrounded by a lot of people, he still feels alone since he thinks he is the

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