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The Role Of Overcoming Obstacles In Salva's Novel '

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Overcoming obstacles is inherently difficult. For Salva, there are many factors that help him through his circumstances. Salva faced many challenges throughout the novel but Salva did not give up and always tried his best. Sometimes he would stumble and fall but he stood up again and kept trying. Some of us in the US doesn’t even know about what happened in Southern Sudan and the people who had to go through so much difficulties to survive. This is important because it tells us the difficulty of one person and how he managed to survive through hard conditions in his

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