A Long Walk To Water Imagine having to run away from your hometown with thousands of other boys you don’t know. Then imagine having to walk 16 hours a day to provide dirty water for your family. Well there’s a boy named Salva that had to run away and walk thousands of miles not knowing where he’s going or where is family is. But for a girl named Nya she had to persevere walking through the hot weather stepping on thorns for 16 hours everyday just to provide dirty water for their family. Nya and Salva have a hard and sad life, but they couldn’t have survived through it without unity, love, and perseverance. First, Nya and Salva both needed unity to survive. One example on page 22 is, “The man nodded and turned to the group. We will take him with us, he said.” This example shows that Salva needed unity to survive because if Salva hadn’t united with the group, he would’ve starved or gotten eaten. One example for Nya is on page 71 and it states, “It was the sound of people working hard together.” This example shows unity was crucial for Nya’s survival because it shows the workers were united …show more content…
So first of all, you would need unity in your life because if we don’t work together we suffer as an individual, and the people in your community you call friends, or family would be just known as strangers. Everyone would need love in their life because if you don’t love one another we wouldn’t be able to communicate with one another or make friends, or families. Lastly, to survive everybody needs perseverance in their lives because if you want to achieve your goal in life, it’s not gonna be a perfect road, so you have to persevere through the hard times in your life and even take the long and tough way if you have to, because that’s how life is. All these values, are needed for Nya and Salva’s survival, but not only them it could help us
In the novel “A long walk to water” by Linda Sue Park, Salva, a young man that lived in South Sudan throughout his childhood to his young-adult years, had faced many difficult challenges the young age of eleven. Salva had to flee from home because of Sudan’s civil war. He soon experienced a horrifying and dreadful life, his family gone, no resources in his group, he watched people die, walked for months, and lead twelve hundred boys to a refugee camp in Kenya. Salva survived this terrible life with the help of three factors, perseverance, luck, and relationships with others. Without any of these factors, Salva might not have been able to survive or possibly become the leader he is today.
It took 648 miles to walk from Southern Sudan to Ethiopia. Salva did this on an empty stomach with no food or water. Do you think you would survive in a 100 degree weather with no food or water, with the same cloths that you been wearing for a year? Because salva did. In the book “A Long Walk to Water” written by Linda Sue park, she talks about Salva's journey that took years and years to get to safety after the war stated. The war came to his village while he was in school he had to run to the bush with not knowing where is his family or even knowing if they are alive. Salva was running from the war for 24 years before he finally found safety in the united states. He was 11 when he started to run, he met a friend along the way but he sadly died due to being eaten by a lion. He also meant his uncle along the way which help Salva gain confidence that he was going to make it out alive, but again the uncle passed away due to three men shooting him, because he was trying to keep everyone safe. In this essay I am going to prove that we can learn to never give up even if things are at the worst point possible and if you take things one step at a time you will get through whatever you are struggling with. The key aspects I am going to be talking about are how did Salva learn never give up and even when salva is at his worst he never gives up and still has hope that he is going to make it out alive. My first body paragraph I am explaining how salva never gave up.
In the book, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva learns to believe in himself and not let anyone bring him down.
In the book, “Three Day Road”, Elijah loses touch with his identity of being Cree, changing into a whole new person. His aboriginal background is challenged as a result of the oppressive atmosphere at the residential school he attends, his debilitating addiction to morphine, and his lust for kill and want to fit in during the war. Elijah, like many young native children, was forced to enroll in residential schools for a majority of his young life. As a result he speaks English very well, even better than his native tongue. Thompson and Xavier wake up early in the morning and are laying around before they make their way to the trenches. Thompson says, “‘You’re a quiet one,’ [...] ‘I’d have said that’s an Indian trait, till I met Elijah.’ We
The quote, “Don’t judge a man until you’ve Walked Two Moons in his moccasins” ~(Creech)~. The quote typed above demonstrates a powerful theme in the novel which shows through each of the characters. This is a theme that is placed many times in the novel, and the author makes it important. During the book, Walk Two Moons, Sal changes from upset to accepting which is demonstrated by the changes in her life, the definition of character, and the events that happen for a reason.
The flaming sun overhead, and the blonde colored container banging against the side of your hip. As you attempt to bring water back for your family so you can all have a drink of water. Most people wouldn’t ever think that they would have to do anything like that. Nor do they even think about where their water comes from or how much they waste. But in Sudan it’s a whole other story, people there have to travel miles each day to just get water. In the novel A Long Walk to Water Salva the protagonist lives in Southern Sudan during 1985 when there was a Civil War going on. Salva is separated from everything that he has ever known and is now on the run well walk away from the war that has killed his family. Nya the other protagonist also lives
Even though the ride to Yosemite was grueling, the main character learned a valuable life lesson that he will carry for the rest of his life. The main character ventured on a long, tiring ride, learned an important lesson, and discovered how they play together. After his bike ride to Yosemite he learns his lessons on the difficulties of life. He will carry the lessons he learned with him onto future adventures. He will also never venture onto such a grueling task based on other people's views.
Linda Sue Park wrote a novel A Long Walk to Water based on Salva's story. Salva is only 11 years old when the Second Sudanese war had started. Salva had to run away from his village, leaving his family and everything he knew. Salva has to demonstrate determination, courage, and persistence in order to survive the grueling journey to Ethiopia.
A young eleven-year-old boy named Salva finds himself in a difficult situation during the Sudanese Civil war in 1985. To keep surviving he must continue traveling to safe places by foot. In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, a young boy named Salva lived in South Sudan where there was a war called the Sudanese civil war in 1985. He walked distances to camps to find a safe place to survive. Salva survives during the war.
He is selected as one of the boys that would take refuge in America, he hears that his father is alive. After visiting a remote part of Sudan, where his father was hospitalized for drinking too much contaminated water, Salva wants to help not only his father, but the many others that are suffering from this issue to get clean water. Another example would be Jackson Saikong. Jackson’s struggle was to get a proper education. In order get the proper education so he could accomplish his dream of being a pilot, he needed to go to school. Each week, he embarked on a nine mile long journey with his younger sister to get to school. Like Salva, his life was filled with much danger, and one moment could determine the difference from life and death. Through the danger that awaited Jackson on each trip to school, he soon realized that his family lived so far away from the school he attended and in a remote area, was because they didn’t prosper very well financially. The two siblings made it their goal and purpose to receive good education to support their
Now Salva’s 22, he’s learned how to play volleyball and how to speak English. Then one day there’s a rumor going around camp that some people with good health and who don’t have families will be chosen to fly to America. Salva is chosen and later travels to New York and lives his life there, he then starts an organization for building wells back in Sudan and once he raises enough money he flies back down to his home country to help the people still living there. He built wells and schools for the children there not only for his tribe but for the all the other ones as well. Many people believe that the theme would be too help others although none of that would have happened if Salva didn’t persevere through all the sorrow he’s been through. He had a lot of questions with unknown answers but he still kept walking. When he saw his own Uncle get murdered he kept going. Even when he swam through the bloody crocodile river he never stopped. If you really want something you need to keep an open mind and don’t give up on yourself, until you achieve your goal, keep on persevering, just like Salva
Throughout the world many people lose family members and loved ones in tragedy and war. This relates to the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda sue park. In this novel parks show'ed us the struggles of a young boy named salva whose family was lost and had to make a 1,000 mile trek to an Ethiopian refugee camp. While at the same time parks shares a fictional story about a young girl named nya.Parks did this to show us the struggles of women. Throughout the course of the novel Parks shows us how salva survives by being determined ,brave ,and
In the novel Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden proclaims the negative impact war partakes on people’s lives. He validates this by including two opposite characters who misplace their friendship in war. One character who loses all touch of his personal identity, Elijah, and another who was not only mentally drained by the nightmares in war but also physically hurt, Xavier. Boyden concentrates on numerous incidents that change either Xavier or Elijah's physical and mental state in a negative way. This can be justified by three main points that will be discussed, physical impacts on Xavier and Elijah, physiological effects on Xavier and Elijah, and how the war made Elijah loose his cultural identity and made Xavier struggle to keep it.
Imagine walking through Africa. It is hot and there is limited food and water. The sun's beating down onto your face and your legs want to give up. In Salvas time period there is war in Sudan and Salva gets caught in the middle of it. Nyas village needs more clean water to survive. Towards the end of the book Salva can not find a suitable refugee camp to live at. Nya and Salva overcome obstacles in A Long Walk to Water.
Salva had a positive attitude that helped him survive. Salva was separated from his family, but he never gave up hope that he wouldn’t find them. The war in Sudan was the reason Salva got separated. Salva’s uncle helped him stay strong, and to never give up. Salva’s uncle would say, one step at a time, one day at a time, you will always get through this.