A Long Walk To Water Analysis

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Accepting others helps people get through life. In the novel, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, acceptance comes in and out of the story, many times. One example was that the old woman let Salva stay in her barn for many nights before he had to go walk to the refugee camp. Another example was that Salva accepted another part of a Dinka tribe and the Jur-Chol into their group to walk with them to the refugee camp. My last example was that Salva accepted fifteen hundred boys to walk with him to the refugee camp in Kenya. This is why accepting others helps people get through life. An example of when there was acceptance was when the old woman let Salva stay in her barn before he had to go walk to the refugee camp. This is an example

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