Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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Could you Imagine the things people go through and done just to survive. Well in the book called “A Long walk to Water “ BY: Linda Sue Park, two characters ( Salva & Nya ) have done stuff to survive. Ethier running for your life or walking for hours to get water. In my opinion survive means a person who remains alive. But according to the dictionary it means: to continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship. A time Salva had to survived was by running. It all started when salva was a school and heard a noise outside of his class. At first he thought it was a gunshot or a car backing up but it was people shooting. The Rebels and the Government were in war because the government wanted

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