A Long Walk to Water Essay

There are over 20,000 Lost boys in Sudan. In the book “A long Walk to Water” show how Salva had many challenges that he faced before, during, and after the Sudanese Civil War. Three reason that show the challenges Salva faced before, during, and after the Sudanese War are that he had to take care of cows and had to do school work, to keep on walking even though he was hurting, and how different the weather was. First of all the only worry he had before he started walking was taking care of the…

Imagine swimming across a river full of alligators while being shot at by armed soldiers. In the book “A Long Walk To Water” the second Sudanese war took place when Salva was in school waiting to go home and see his family, but he never got home. In that same book Salva shows a great character by showing leadership, determination and courage. After I read that book’s(A long water to water) epilogue I found out that Salva is a strong lost boy. First of all, I think that Salva is a person that…

relationships, between tribes, between family, between People is a heavily stressed theme within the novel, A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park. One of Salva’s largest motivations to continue walking and survive is his family. The tribes’ interactions with each other are prevalent within the work. Multiple characters have had important relationships to Salva as well as Nya. A Long Walk to Water is a story driven through the interactions of people. The tight bonds within the tribes…

also the day my aunt Pam lost her life to a tough battle with multiple different types of cancer. It was heartbreaking news, and all I wanted to do after finding out was go lay in my bed and cry. However, that 's not what happened, and the day was long from being over. It was a sunny, somewhat chilly Friday afternoon, and I was supposed to be dismissed early from my 7th period class to board the basketball bus. We were headed to Newton, who beat us by 9 earlier in the season, for a redemption…

and I am going to share a few. Salva must overcome these challenges, or his life might be in danger. In the book A Long Walk to Water, the main character Salva Dut has a wild life. He must live through this life or it won’t end well. I am going to talk about the challenges Salva Dut faces in the book A Long Walk to Water. Salva faces many challenges in his life because he must walk through the Akobo Desert in three days time, he witnesses the death of his uncle, and finally, Salva’s best friend…

“ Where is my family?” (9), that is the question that so many people living in Sudan had, just how Salva had asked a million times. A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park is a true story about the war crisis in Sudan. An 11 year old boy named Salva Dut has to leave everything behind, even his family when the gunfire from the war hit his village of Loun-Ariik (Dinka village). Salva walked for months and months across an arid desert to reach safety at a refugee camp in Ethiopia only to be…

joined a group of people from his village on a long walk to find refugee camps in Ethiopia. I have chosen the theme about Salva as a character. In the beginning, Salva was weak because he lost his family, the group of men he was with was not being nice to him, and his uncle got shot by the rebels. In the middle until the end, he got a little bit stronger when he got to a new camp, he got a chance to go to America, and he might have…

sacrificed himself to be a hero to others, and he was an inspirational hero to a lot of people in Sudan, as mentioned in “A Long Walk to the Water and Just Add Water”. Sudan is an undeveloped country where people suffer from a lack of resources, especially water. Salva established a foundation called Water for Sudan, so he can help people who are struggling for lack of clean water. What made him a real hero were the characteristics that he has; good leadership, selflessness and a growth mindset.…

the United States because I think there is more opportunities in the United States than Sudan. For example, in the United States, you don’t have to be worrying about walking 8 hours to get your family’s water like you do if you were living in Sudan. If you lived in the United…

and then it got violent. My mother started bashing her head through the glass china cabinet that sat in the corner behind her. It was one of the worse sights I will ever see. The two of them living together didn’t last long and before I knew it I wouldn’t see my mother again for a long time. In the fall of the same year we were told that we could no longer live at the orange house as it had been reposed by the bank. Three of us had to find yet another place to live. The place that we could…