A Long Walk To Water By Linda Sue Park

People in Southern Sudan have dirty water, wild animals, the many wars and a lot more hardships they need to face. In the book “A long walk to water” by: Linda Sue Park, is a book that takes place in Southern Sudan and features all the hardships Salva and Nya had to face while living there such as wild animals, wars, fights through tribes, lack of water and food. Hardships Salva faced in Southern Sudan are lack of water/ food, the wild animals, and the fighting/ war.

One of the hardships Salva had to face in Southern Sudan is lack of water and food. In chapters 3-4 Salva had gotten water from a woman older than Salva’s mother that he had met after he was left alone, the woman gave Salva a gourd of water and a bag of raw peanuts. By the end of chapter 4 Salva ran out of the resources the older woman had given him.

Another one of the hardships Salva had to face in Southern Sudan is the wild animals. At the end of chapter 6 Salvas' friend Marial was eaten by a lion while the group was asleep, they stayed alert after that incident so it wouldn’t happen again, and no other group members would be eaten by the lions in the area.

At the end of chapter 1-2 Salva was in school and war started, it was the sound of gunshots first then bombs Salva looked behind him to see a big cloud of black smoke. Since the war started Salva had to walk away from his home and face all the hardships the deserts had including thorns, hot and rocky biomes, lack of food and water, wild animals and many more. In chapter 3 page 16 Salva talks about how the Nuer and Dinka tribes have been fighting/ battling for hundreds of years, to claim the lands with the richest water, or other reasons like Dinka going on Nuer