Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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.

Life can bring unexpected events that individuals might not be prepared to confront. This was the case in the short story “On The Rainy River” written by Tim O’Brien. Young Tim is drafted to the military to fight the American War in Vietnam. He faces the conflict of whether he should or should not go to war after being drafted. The thought of giving up the future he has worked so hard for and instead fight a war “for uncertain reasons” terrifies him. He must make the agonizing decision of whether to pursue his personal desire and in turn be shamed by society or conform, sacrificing his ideals in the process.

He becomes friends with one of the boys in the group called Marial, when they keep walking Salva comes across his uncle. His uncle said he would protect them at all costs with his gun, but one night Marial had gone missing, so Salva's uncle had told him that he was eaten by a lion. When they made it to the Nile river they made boats and went to an island in the middle where they spent the night and were attacked by mosquitoes, the next day they got as much water as they could and kept walking until they found nine men lying on the ground. One of the women in the group tried giving his water to one of the men, the men that could still walk came with the group, when one night the group was robber by three solders and Salva's uncle was shot and killed, but they continues to walked until they arrived at the camp where Salva spent the next six years of his life. After six years the camp was attacked by solder and people were forced to cross the river where thousands died, Salva was then the leader of fifteen hundred boys, where they were lead to

The award-winning author, Luis Alberto Urrea, creator of The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and The Devil's Highway, describes The Devil’s Highway which occurred in May of 2001, one of many that impacted the desert on undocumented immigrants. which is a desert located beyond Sonora, Mexico. It is a desert which few turn to in able to cross over. A group of illegal Mexican were left for dead after attempting to cross; they were left stranded after traveling for days in the wrong direction, through mountains, desert and only a small amount of water along with a few personal items. The Devil’s Highway name was set out to one’s belief “bad medicine” (5). Even though the desert is an obstacle itself, there are still other physical

A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park shows how a little boy can get through the toughest times because Salva was a little boy who lived in a small village in Southern Sudan was attacked by the Nuer tribe because the village was Dinka. Salva ran with this other group, then they found a barn to sleep in. When Salva woke up he saw that everyone had left him, Salva then saw an old lady that gave him a bag of peanuts, also this lady convinced this other group that Salva would not be hassle to take with them. Salva then makes a friend named Marial and later finds his uncle. They later find them selves in a desert to sleep in. Marial goes missing when everyone wakes up, they think he was killed because there was blood in the spot Marial was sleeping

In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, We meet Nya and Salva and we learn that Nya is walking for water. Then we learn that Salva is running away from the war between nuer and dinka Salva keeps on running until he runs into some rebels Salva saw that he wasn’t the only one who ran into the rebels he tried to find his family but there was no luck. Then the rebels took all the men salva was left alone again and he started to run again he ran found another group he passed out and found his uncle. Then Salva still was running he got to a refugee camp he signed up to go to america but it was no luck he practice english and when he was done he was about to learn volley ball but people said that Salva gets to go to new york. Then he

How are the Lost Boys and Lost Girls lives and journeys different from Salva and Nya? In the story A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, the two characters in the book are a girl named Nya and a boy named Salva. In the book Salva is a real person while Nya is someone that was made up to show a different perspective of how the people in Sudan live. In the book, Salva is traveling to Ethiopia and then to Kenya hoping to find a safe place to stay for the war. While Nya is safe in her village, her job is to do the house chores and fetch water.

faced with another one, and endures it with more strength and courage than the last one.

Although life in southern Sudan was hard for Salva, it wasn’t impossible, as long as he had good survival factors. A long walk to water by Linda Sue Parker is about two kids named Salva and Nya, they both face challenges in their lives but they also both overcome challenges. Salva has been forced to leave his village for war reasons and Nya has a hard life as it is at her own home town trying to find water. Salva used the following three factors to work towards survival, family, hard work, and persistence. These things kept Salvas thoughts in place and helped him to survive.

“ His Expression remained the same- cynical, defiant, painful” (Gaines 84). Miss Emma did not think that Jefferson knew he was going to be put in the chair, which kind of furthers this whole idea that everyone has that’s he’s incompetent. Even his own aunt without realizing has degraded him. I think that maybe Jefferson can’t read or write but he’s a human who understands laws. At the beginning of the book I was feeding into the notion that he was mentally challenged, but I think now that he just grew up in the uneducated black stigma put on him by white people not letting black school have the same education. And so he knows he is going to die, he doesn’t fight he doesn’t resist he faces the unjust punishment with grace and is going o let

Mark Smith's novel 'The Road to Winter' explores the behaviours of characters after their experiences of loss, and their ability to persevere whilst trying to continue to act to their own ethical principles. The protagonist of the novel, Finn, is one of the many who have lost their family and way of life to the deadly disease that has ravaged the world, yet has managed to survive without much external help and relative isolation. Whilst he has managed to keep his benevolent

There are supposed to be refugee camps in Kenya.” (Park 79) Salva was scared of the war and of the soldiers so he thought of a safe path that would get him somewhere safer than the other two options. “One step at a time...one day at a time. Just today-just this day to get through.” (Park 82)

A Long Walk to Water is a novel by Linda Sue Park. This novel is about Salva, an eleven-year -old Sudanese boy who grows up in South Sudan. Later in the novel, he has faced challenges one wouldn’t dream of facing, through a long period of time. He has learned, if one helps other people, those people will then help more people, which will result in more happiness in the world. He is a round character, who changes throughout the novel. Salva is a different person at the end of the book. He has gone from hearing his death journey to fighting for survival to helping transform people’s lives forever.

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.

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