Long Walk to Water Essay By: Lake Jolliff #3 period In the novel a “long walk to water” there was a boy named Salva Dut and his village was attacked. At that point, he had to run into a bush, and Salva couldn’t see His family for 15 years. The two factors that made survival possible for Salva are there were refugee camps for Salva to live at and the group that Salva traveled with to get to the Ethiopia refugee camp.
In Peace Like A River, Leif Enger utilizes the chapter title, Boy Ready, to connect Davy’s situation to the constellation, also named Boy Ready, in the dark night sky. As the book progresses, Jape Waltzer explains to Reuben Land about a legend entitled Boy Ready. A quote from the book is “The boy charmed all with his bravery and wit and was adopted by the king himself and was wise and arms and letters; at last he became king himself and was wise and good”(268). But Waltzer revealed that the boy set the fire himself (268). The quote represents Davy’s life before Finch and Basca intruded into Davy’s personal life: His girlfriend, his family, and his house.
In the midst of all of this he finds a balance by focusing on what really matters. At the same time this keeps him focused on his main goal which is education. Education will be his family's way out of poverty. Through seeing his younger brother that is unemployed and will be having a child soon he looks beyond this and is genuinely proud of where he comes from. He realizes how strong his family is when he seems them fighting through poverty and making things.
In Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water, demonstrates one of many true stories of many a Lost Boy. Salva an eleven year old had to flee from his village all alone because his village was attacked due to the Second Sudanese War that began in 1983. When Salva was at school and his village was being attacked,he was told not to go home, but into the bush,that's where his whole journey began. Salva had to show confidence, determination,and perseverance in order to survive in a difficult environment.
There are many stars in the sky, but most are mostly visible at night. The quote, “…only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” by Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals that when a person is exposed enough to the dark things in their life, they are able to appreciate and grow stronger. This relates to the book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, which is about a boy named Salva being exposed to a new environment that holds experiences that he wasn’t exposed to before. While a girl named Nya struggles to support her family.
To start off with Linda Sue Park used a great amount of craft moves throughout A Long Walk To Water. There were dozens of different craft moves you could use but only a few pleasant ones. One important event is Nya and Salva end up meeting each other at the end of the book. Another great event is Salvas village getting attacked by rebels. It makes Salva who he is because of that traumatizing experience.
Another character in this book is Nya, an eleven year old Sudanese girl, who has to walk eight hours every day to get water for her family. She always keeps going, even though the way is hard because it is hot and the ground hurts to walk on. One example of hope and perseverance in A Long Walk to Water is how Salva never gives up. He is forced to leave his home and family in southern Sudan when his school is attacked, and goes on a long,
“Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.” Said Salva Dut, the founder of water for South Sudan, Inc. In a long walk to water by Linda Sue Park there is a true story about a man named Salva Dut.
People face difficult challenges every day. But, hundreds of Kilometres deep into an untamed forest, Salva, in the novel “A Long Walk To Water” makes due, and survives the northern Sudanese attacks. With Salva’s determination, he manages to escape to the bush and starts his long walk to refuge. Salva’s immense courage helped him to survive, and his compassion allowed him to supply water to his enemies. It is this three traits-determination, courage and compassion that got him through the challenges he faced.
★★★★★ A Long Walk to Water is a creative non-fiction story about the life of one of the Lost Boys from South Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The primary character, Salva Dut, relates his life from a pre-teenager wandering with groups of other war victims from refugee camp to refugee camp, and then to his new home with his new family in Rochester, New York as a young adult, and finally back to his family of origin in Sudan. Ultimately, Salva creates an organization that digs wells, the ultimate gift of life, for small Sudanese villages. The book opens with Salva daydreaming during Arabic class. Jolted back to reality by gunfire, Salva obeys his teachers who say not to run back home to their villages but to run for the bush instead.
Try to imagine having to flee your home because of war, or having to deal with the grief of losing your entire family, best friend, and watching your uncle die in front of your eyes, or living through a genocide that killed 2 million people. Now imagine doing that before you were even 13 years old. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the book follows 11 year-old Salva trying to escape war in his home of southern Sudan. He tries to escape The Sudanese Civil War to Ethiopia first, and then to Kenya. During A Long Walk to Water, Salva faces and overcomes many hardships like the civil war, dangerous animals, and harsh living conditions.
Sacrificing something is really hard to do. What if you had to sacrifice your family, food and water. Some people would say “How would you Survive.” In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park a young boy named Salva Dut had to flee his home in South Sudan because of war. Salva has no food, water and doesn't have his family.
Have you ever gone through the desert with only a small gourd of water? Well, the Lost boys of Sudan went through South Sudan to get away from the war, and some other challenges. In the book a Walk to Water Salva and Nya have problems of getting water, but Salva is based on a real person who went through the challenges of losing his family and the brutal Sudanese war. These are some of the challenges he faced and how he solved them with what he had throughout his life. Through harsh challenges Salvas new foster family was always there for him to support and encourage him through tough times.
In “This is Water” and A Long Walk to Water, both Park and Wallace demonstrate people thinking internally from a personal consciousness. It is clear that Salva and other characters from A Long Walk to Water and the author of “This is Water” think from a personal consciousness because of how they change their minds. Specifically, this is shown through how the woman who was helping Salva she changed her mind and left him and Wallace changing his thinking to be able to include others’ perspectives and how me not being able to make decisions affects others. Characters in both “This is Water” and A Long Walk to Water demonstrate internal thinking through changing their minds. Throughout both passages, people were faced with many decisions and challenges that required them to think
"A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park is a novel that intertwines the stories of two protagonists, Nya and Salva, to depict the themes of survival, resilience, hope, and the power of education. The novel is based on the true events of the Second Sudanese Civil War and explores the impact of war on individuals and communities in South Sudan. Survival: The theme of survival is central to the novel. Both Nya and Salva face life-threatening challenges in their quest for survival. Nya, a young girl from the Nuer tribe, spends her days walking miles to fetch water for her family.
