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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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In the book, “A Long Walk to Water,” by Linda Sue Park, the thing that affects the characters the most is their culture. In this book, Nya has to walk to the pond and back every day to get water for her family. Eventually, her village has a well dug by people from another tribe, the project being led by Salva. First, the way people are raised by their parents heavily affects who they are in the future. “Salva had three brothers and two sisters. As each boy reached the age of about ten years, he has sent off to school.” In his culture, only boys get to go to school and they have to wait until they are ten years old. When Nya stepped on a thorn, she was tough and tried to get it out, rather than crying and not moving forward with her walk to get water. According to the text, “She picked up another thorn and used it to poke and prod at the first one.” …show more content…

“As Salva watched, he could see one of them aiming the gun at his head.” If Salva had not ran away from home because of the war, he and his uncle would not be there, where people were killing people like Salva’s uncle, who had done nothing wrong. Everything that has happened led to Salva coming to America. He had to run away from home, get to the first refugee camp, and then decide to go to the other one, where they sent him to America. “Salva blinked away the tears as he took his first step into

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