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Long Walk To Water Analysis

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The book “Long Walk to Water” is very interesting in place. So here's my essay on Long Walk to Water. In the book “Long Walk to Water”, by Linda Sue Park, the place they were in was in war. “There are two tribes “Dinka and Nuer” were rivals, they hated each other.”
The reason they hated each other is because, a person from a tribe killed a person from the other tribe. “There was a real war during Salva’s time too.” The war was in both of the stories of the book.

They didn’t have any water. “Nya had to walk a lot every day just to get water for her family.” She had to walk 8 hours a day just to get dirty water. “Nya did not believe the guys that came and said that there was water here. Because they never had water so close” They didn’t

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