In the book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, the characters, Nya and Salva, share multitudes of analogies and distinctions. Salva's story takes place in 1985, during wartime, where boys were being recruited to serve for a side in the war. Nya's story takes place in 2008, after the war, but there are still cultural dilemmas. In both stories, culture, time, and place affect their future, who characters turn out to be and their survival. Culture is the beliefs of a certain group of people.…
In the memoir A Long Walk Gone, Ishmael Beah shares his memories of the Sierra Leone war. The war caused many hardships to the citizens of this country. It also caused a loss of innocence. Ishmael Beah embodies the loss of innocence by explaining life’s casualties before and during the war. Before the war broke out in Sierra Leone, Beah’s life was innocent.…
Food was seen as a gift during the war because it was in such high demand. Salva was extremly lucky to have encountered a memeber of the group who happend to follow a bird to their souce of nutrients. A bees nest. Their technquie of getting the bes out of the nest wasnt eaxactly the smartest but they had to do what they ever it took to get the one thing they desperattly yearned for. " It was worth it, Salva thought as he touched his eye gingerly."…
Many Underdeveloped countries in Africa face many struggles since eradicating European imperialism from their countries. Sierra Leone a country of despair, that had gone down in hill in many ways after becoming a country. Sadly, Sierra Leone has faced economic, social, and political influences that have negatively impact the country in many ways. Such ways that have destroyed the country is a civil war, dividing the country with two different group of people who are out to kill. Many people have been affected, even children who were used as child soldiers.…
Cultural heritage can provide a sense of belonging within a group. It allows one to better understand past generations and the history behind one’s family. N. Scott Momaday illustrates the importance of heritage in his essay “The Way to Rainy Mountain.” Through his use of vivid imagery, Momaday successfully teaches the readers about his American Indian heritage as well as drawing them into his journey to Rainey Mountain.…
Have you ever worked over 3 jobs in one day only to survive and give all your money you worked so hard for back to your country so there could survive and your loved ones? That's what John Bul , Pather and Daniel did for their families and country. They were motivated to work hard and far a better life for themselves and their family! In the documentary “God Grew Tired of us “ the lost boys of sudan were motivated to make a better life for themselves and their families by working hard in America.…
Many child soldiers have died because of the terrors by the war in South Sudan. They have all died in hope of seeing their families once again, but the older soldiers prohibit the families from coming near them. Whenever the conflict escalates, the demand for military manpower increases, and children are often targeted in a country where nearly half the population is under 15 which make a lot of communities want to stop the war in order to save the children. There are many communities, such as The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Save the Children, that help those children get out of war and reunite with their families.…
A Lost Boy is Found Salva was one of 40,000 lost to survive a life in Sudan. Linda Sue Park wrote the book A Long Walk To Water. The book is about a boy named Salva and his journey while growing up away from him and walking from refugee camp to refugee camp in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Eventually he got selected to go to The United States of America and still loves in New York today. Salva is a survivor because he persevered through new settings and areas, overcame wild obstacles, and endured the lost of loved ones.…
As my Mathematics professor always says, “Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person.” For some people who live in the third world countries such as Ethiopia and Sudan, even a few dollars or a cup of water is a great help. However, in today’s society, most people only care about themselves and forget to think of others in need. Less and less people are willing to help others. Moreover, some people once accepted help, but they forget that many are like them that need help.…
Child soldiers should be given amnesty. The people there would forced to go into war. If they didn’t choose to go to war, they would get killed. They are too young to go to war. Some of the kids are only 10 years old.…
Going from village to village shooting elders and adults and doing all the dirty work of adults in authority, leaves a child with a serious disorder. Child soldiers are taken from their families and fed drugs and alcohol to “help” them complete their mission of killing all adults. War that involves the use of child soldiers negatively affects these children mentally and physically which in return affect their quality of life. The military and rebels forces thrive more on children being apart of war than adults. Small towns and villages were the main focus for them.…
Everyone has one hope and dream in life--- to find your passion and live it with happiness. People will spend their whole lives, invest years of hard work, late nights, sweat, and tears; and sometimes never find it. Those that do are the lucky ones. But for other’s that journey is far grimier, cruder, and violent than others.…
What effect has the conflict in the Central African Republic had on its children? The conflict in the Central African Republic has had life-changing effects on the children living there by stripping them of their childhood and forcing them to grow up psychologically and emotionally. Over a year ago in the Central African Republic a rebel group called the Seleka came to power and over the course of its reign as many as 6,000 child soldiers have fought either for or against the Seleka. Because these children have been exposed to the violence brought by war, the effects the conflict has had on the children include enslavement as soldiers and forcible marriage.…
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 cows and school work.…
Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in March of 2011, it has claimed nearly 470,000 lives, 12,000 or more were children (Sinha 1). Within a span of five years since the war began, nearly 3.7 million children have been born in Syria, meaning, 3.7 million children grew up only knowing war and violence (Rasha 1). They weren’t given the opportunity to a good life or a happy childhood. These children are starving and in dire need of outside help. They are going through and seeing things no adult should have to face, let alone small children.…