A Long Walk To Water Analysis

“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced how you go about that is the key to success” (Phil knight). In the historical fiction book Nobody Knows by Shelley Tanaka and the historical fiction book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. Nobody Knows was about a mom leaving her kids and the kids had to take care of themselves and pay taxes and do adult things ,and without the dad it leaves the eldest kids to take care of his younger siblings and the oldest is only 12 years old. A Long Walk To Water is about a kid who had his village burnt down and most of his family died but his uncle was leading the group to a refugee camp until raiders killed the uncle and he went to a refugee camp then got adopted and then went back to sudan where he found his dad he did not know about. Cultural …show more content…
Would you do something by yourself that normally you would never think about paying taxes as a kid. In the book Nobody Knows Akira has to pay taxes because his mother left him. “Every day was the same he would go out buy food to the bank machine to pay the rent or the electricity”(Tanaka 83). This shows that Akira had to take care of his family and do the things that his mom would do for him but since his mom left he would not do it. When you are a refugee who you had an uncle who got killed because he was the leader of the group would you become the leader or would you not. In the book A Long Walk To Water was becoming more of a leader. “ crowds of other boys “followed him nobody talked about it but by the end of the day salva had become than leader of the group”(Park 80). This shows that he became more of a leader by leading a bunch of boys. Cultural conflicts make people strong because it can make them more responsible and it can also make them more