Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

The hardships in A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park are terrible real life experiences in the Southern Sudan area. Salva is an eleven year old boy in this story, he was born and raised in Southern Sudan in Loun Arrick. Salva has multiple siblings including three brothers and three sisters. In this book he faces hardships like a raging war, a lack of water, and not being able to find his food.

This hardship is the raging war of Southern Sudan. In the beginning of the story Salva, an eleven year old boy is sitting in school when he hears a cracking sound. His classmates look out of the window while the cracking is getting closer, gunshots hit the school. His teacher issues everyone to get down. When they get out of the classroom to the outside, he tells everyone to run into the bush and to not stop running. Salva listens and runs into the bush. While he is running he meets with a group of people also running from the war. They start walking

The group walked until they were overflowing with people, the group was thin on food and they thought Salva was the main problem. The group thought Salva would slow them down, so they continued walking until they found a barn. They slept in the barn overnight. When Salva woke up he found that the group left him behind, he knew why they left him. The group left him because he was a kid. Salva went out of the barn and traveled to the nearby pond. While reaching the pond he stumbles across a house. There was a woman sitting on the porch, Salva noticed scars on her head. The woman he saw was a Dinka. He walked up and introduced himself, she was welcoming and had Salva do work once they knew each other. When he was working a group came by running from war, the women asked if they could take Salva with them. Salva was given a bag of peanuts and a gourd and was sent with the group. ABout 1 day later he runs out of the bag of peanuts he was given. He is forced to eat rotted apples and