A Long Walk To Water Analysis

In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a story about one out of a thousand Southern Sudan lost boys named, Salva. Salva is a boy who ran away during the Southern Sudanese War. Salva moves from country to country to get away from this war. During the war he loses touch of his family. Salva soon escapes the war, now he’s trying to find his way to safety. Salva was able to survive In A Long Walk to Water, by having bravery, courage, and showing grit.

A Long Walk to Water By Linda Sue Park Describes how How Salva Dut was driven out of Sudan because of war then moves to America and creates a organization to help villages in south Sudan get water. It first started when had to run away from his family and school because of war to a Ethiopian refugee camp. Then forced out of the camp by the Ethiopian government. Then leads a group of kids to a refugee camp in Kenya. After that he moved to America and created a organization that gets water for south Sudan. Also in the book Salva was making a well for a village and runs in to another character in the book.

The book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park gives a fascinating story of a real life personal journey. Slava, the main character, was born and for 11 years raised in Sudan in 1985 during the civil war. Slava was a member of a successful family, Slava’s father was the village judge and owned many cattle. Slava was able to go to school, that was not common in Sudan. Slava was at school , his village was under attack and he needed to leave to get safety behind a bush so he would not be hurt , Slava ran to a bush get safety. That dash was the call to Slava’s personal journey. Slava would have venture through three (Sudan,Ethiopia,Kenya) countries , without his family and on foot . The character Slava in a Long walk to water was changed by his personal journey, he had to be independent, not having his family disrupted his daily life style, and was compelled to help the people of Sudan

. In A Long Walk to Water, Salva decides to lend a helping hand to people in Sudan. One iconic way Salva helped the people of Sudan was by building a well. Many people make choices, too.

Imagine walking your entire life and staying in refugee camps in Eastern Africa until your mid twenties. In A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park, Salva does just that and survives everything that was thrown at him, to get to safety. Salva is a survivor because of his ability to overcome challenges such as mother nature, the loss of family, and being lost.

In the book “Long Walk To Water” Salva’s life was mostly influenced by the place he lived in. Salva lived in Southern Sudan ,1985, and in Sudan boys went to school while the girls stayed at home. There was also wars going on and that affected Salva’s life a lot. In the story it says that “. . . like his brothers before him , he would be in charge of more cows every year”, this sentence is stating that life in Sudan is not easy and even kids have to work hard in the field. In Salva’s story, he was in school and he heard gunshots so he ran for the bushes around the school. Salva kept on running farther away from home thinking about his family and if he will ever see them again. In his adventure Salva joined a group where he then found his uncle

true tale of Salva as he runs away from Sudan in search for a safe place. He has to

Nya, heard people talking about how we are gonna get water and that its close by. Her father came up to her and said that there gonna be a school in her village that has boys and girls, all ages go and get education . Also, Salva and his family from the USA and some other people that wanted to help is building a well so Nya's village have fresh clean water and never has to drink dirty water for good. And now all the young girls including Nya, never have to walk and get water again thanks to Salva and his

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.

Life. It’s like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. I know. That was cheesy, but you can’t deny the truth.

The story “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park, took place in the years 1985 to 2009. A theme that comes up in the story is survival. In the story, Salva is one of the characters that faces the theme. Many things helped him survive, but the most important factor in his survival is his uncle. Linda Sue Park shows that Salva survived because of the help his uncle gave him along the way, he survived with the help the lady he called auntie offered him when she gave him shelter in the barn and helped him join a group to stay away from war. His survival in the story was also shown when the boy brought him down in the river almost drowning him but ended up saving his life.

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

Matters: If Salva didn’t go through these hardships he wouldn’t be the same person today. For example if he still hanged on those memories of grief he would have stop walking, because the path he walked was cluttered with thorns and needles. By also surviving the event with Nile River, Salva’s shown that he’s become a strong person and that he wants to live. ____________________________________________________________________________________

This shows that even if you are different from each other, help each other out through rough times and accept them for who they really are. In the story Nya was from the Nuer tribe and Salva was from the Dinka tribe. The Dinka and Nuer tribes have been fighting violently for a long time and have been fighting over water for their cattle since the climate is very dry and the geography doesn't have a lot of water available to them. At the end of the story Salva came to help the Nuer tribe on getting water once he had all his own needs in America. On page 114, in the story A Long Walk to Water, it states “The Dinka and Nuer tribes were enemies-had been for hundreds of years. “Why would a Dinka bring water to us” she wondered aloud. “I heard Uncle and Father talking about him,” Dep said. “He has drilled so many wells for his own people. This year he decided to drill for the Nuer as well.” This displays that Salva knew the Nuer needed some help but he decided to help them and accept them for who they are and not judge. It also says on page 107 “an idea of what he might be able to do to help the people of Sudan.” This is an example of helping people all around even if they are different. Nya and Salva had accepted each other despite their different ethics, opinion, and

Life takes a strong toil when war strikes. People start to lose hope in survival and start believing in the wrong source of power. Revenge and world domination. It takes one to realize what truly matters, and that is life. But there are factors to lead to one’s survival and hope for a better path. In the novel that Linda Sue Park had written; a Long Walk To Water. Tells a story of compassion, bravery, and a little bit of luck, during one of the worst times in Southern Sudan. Told from a perspective of a young boy named Salva. Throughout the book, Salva had many factors that made survival possible for him, they include; Marial, Uncle, some luck on the way. These are the factors that helped him survive, even when tomorrow did not seem