Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water describes a hot, sunny day in Southern Sudan, where an 11 year old girl named Nya was on her first two hour walk of the day, to fetch water for her family from a pond that was located two hours away from her home. She makes the walk every day, twice a day, carrying a giant plastic container. The journey takes her half a morning while the other one takes half a night. While she is one out of thousands who walk hours a day just to be able to find water for their families, hundreds of millions of people in the United States turn on a faucet, open a bottle and drink clean refreshing water in a matter of seconds. While the majority of United States citizens live with easy access to clean water, millions of people …show more content…
So plentiful, in fact, that almost every single person in the country takes it for granted. On average, the U.S uses 15-30 gallons of water every time a shower is taken, 35-50 gallons every time a bath is taken, 4-7 gallons every time a toilet is flushed, and 1 gallon every time someone brushes their teeth. (U.S Environmental Protection Agency 2). These statistics are not only embarrassing but outrageous when compared to the amount of children who die every day because a lack of clean water. In the United States, water costs 2 cents per gallon on average and is readily available and inexpensive throughout the entire country in seconds or minutes primarily by tap, bottles, or wells. (U.S Environmental Protection Agency 3) Meanwhile in other countries around the world, wars have been fought over water. For example in Sudan, there was a conflict over water in the Darfur region which left 300,000 people dead and over 2.7 million people displaced all because of a desperate need for water. For the Haitian people, clean water can determine whether someone lives or dies through the next week. Water that is unclean is the main cause of illness in this impoverished country and many of those who get sick die because people cannot afford medical treatment or because it is simply not available to them. In Somalia, girls make multiple 2-3 hour walks a day to fetch water for their families, many sacrificing schooling for access to water (U.S Environmental Protection Agency 3). Water is essential for our lives and for millions of people in many countries around the world access to clean water has become a desperate search, the difference between life and death in many
The book A Long to Water Walk by Linda Sue Park. This Story takes place in Southern Sudan in 1985 The main character of the Story is a boy named Salva. Slava is currently running away from war and trying to get away from the war during all of this he goes through many trials and loses many people. During this war Salva losses a lot of his family and ends up being all by himself with none of his family left with him. Quotes that support this topic are “But, Uncle, I will have no one!
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is a biography about Salva, a Dinka boy, who loses his family in the war. Salva goes on a long journey and travels to New York and finds his father. A theme present in the story is family will protect you, which will prove to be important to Salva’s story. A piece of evidence that proves the theme is "If it hadn't been for Uncle, Salva may have gone crazy with fear."
Will he find his family? Will he even live? In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park a boy named Salva had to go through and try to overcome many hardships. It all started when Salva’s school got shot up and he had to run. Away from everything.
Perseverance means to keep going despite all the pain and distress that comes along with continuing. Following South Sudan’s first Civil war, the second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. This war causes over four million southerners and over four thousand boys, called “The Lost Boys” to move to America. The people who survived, had to persevere in their long, horrendous journey. Throughout the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva must overcome many obstacles from the war as he ventures toward safety and eventually, America.
Life takes a strong toil when war strikes. People start to lose hope in survival and start believing in the wrong source of power. Revenge and world domination. Nevertheless, it takes one to realize what truly matters, and that is life. Consequently, there are factors to lead to one’s survival and hope for a better path.
Could you imagine having to run away from your home and your family because of a terrible war in your village? According to the Tennessee Office for Refugees, “It is a badge of strength courage, and victory to be a refugee.” In the novel, A Long Walk To Water, by Linda Sue Park, a young boy named Salva is a Southern Sudan refugee, a “Lost Boy”. He shows strength, courage and bravery when he makes his journey to escape war. Salva is stuck in his war struck village, and he needs to show these qualities if he ever wants to make it to a safe place.
A very important theme in the book A Long Walk to Water is perseverance. The first example that perseverance is an important theme is how Nya walks back and forth to a faraway pond 2 times a day, every day, for seven months a year without stopping. Also, on the path, there are thorns everywhere that are painful to remove. Nya only gets a small bit of water and rest even though it is very hot and dry. Even the water that Nya gets with much pain and suffering is muddy and infected with Guinea Worms.
In a novel or book, the setting can have a major effect on the character. It can also play a role in a major conflict of a story. In the book, "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park, the setting, being a desert, takes effect in influencing characters, plot, and mood throughout the story. Firstly, the setting of this novel causes Nya to experience many feelings and emotion such as pain, sorrow, and grief.
A long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park explains the story of a boy named Salva who lives in Sudan and must flee from war and desperately trying to find his family again. First, a young eleven year old boy named Salva who lives in Sudan, is a Dinka, and in 1985, is in school one day, when his village is attacked, forcing him to flee into the bush. The group Salva was with left him, but an older lady living near by gave him peanuts and let him stay in her barn. Salva found a group of his own people and later, a man named Buksa found a beehive and they all ate the honeycomb. A boy named Marial became friends with Salva, and to Salva's joy, Salva found his Uncle, but in the night Uncle woke Salva and told him that Marial was gone.
Nya’s objective is to get water for her family, but she has to walk eight hours to get water for her family twice a day. A conflict her family faces is having to move every dry season to be able to get water. However, another conflict is that the water is not clean, and it can get them sick. Then, when there is no more water in the pond, they have to dig holes and try to find water which can be an obstacle. Nya’s life is really tough, especially since she has to live her life just walking to fetch some water in order
Everybody has something they want to accomplish, however life doesn’t give things for free; goals are accomplished through hard work and determination. Every living being in the world would be able to relate to pushing themselves beyond their comfort zones to reach something. Everyone wants to reach a goal, and the book shows that success is only given to those willing to give everything they have. This text directly supports this philosophy. In the book ‘A Long Walk to Water’, Salva faces a myriad of different roadblocks in between him and his goal, and this story shows his hard work that got him to a better life.
Imagine being separated from your family and you might never see them again. Imagine having to walk miles everyday to get water. Most people in the world don’t think about wasting water or being suddenly separated from your family. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the reader goes through an awful story about a girl named Nya who has to walk miles for water in Southern Sudan 2008 and a boy named Salva who’s life gets ruined by the war in Southern Sudan 1985. The reader goes through both stories and experiences what life was like for both Nya, and Salva.
In this essay I am going to be answering a prompt. The prompt states “How does the choices we make impact or shape our identity?” Sometimes it's your smallest decisions that can change your lives forever. We’re using the book A Long Walk To Water and Among The Hidden. In these books they make different choices that can impact their lives in the future.
A Long Walk To Water Linda Sue Park’s book entitled A Long Walk To Water is about two people on different paths that eventually meet. One character named Nya is a girl who walks 12 hours a day to get water for her family. While the other character Salva is a boy who is left in a country surrounded by war. In Salva’s story, his survival became possible through three main factors:his uncle, food and water; the memory of his family.
Are not people leaving the water running while brushing their teeth, showering, or doing the dishes? People in the US consume 176 gallons of water a day on average and 3.9 trillion gallons of