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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." Even though Salva has been stung by multiple bees, he was still able to enjoy the honey that was given to him because he needed food for energy . Not only was food sought after but so was water. When Salva arrived in an area in the desert he saw that there were multiple men who were dead and that the few survivers were barely alive. It was very noticable that they wre in desperate need for water so saving those men was hghly unlikey. Althought a women had offered them water. Another quote from the text is, "If you give them water, you will not have enough for yourself!."(56) This goes to show that water wasn't easy to obtain as they were traveling in the desert. No one wanted to offer water to the dying men because they all needed it. Humans were also a physical resource in terms of Salva's journey.The soldirs were chaing them towards the Gilo river nd Salva had to escape as soon as possible. But as he was crossing the deadly river, a boy had latchd onto salva causing him to dodge th bullet as the poor boy took it for him. " Stunned, salva realized that being forced down the water had probably saved his life" (78,79) While crossing the Gilo river the soldiers were shooting at the people going across it to speed up the process. If it wasn't for the boy grasping on to salva, he probably would've been shot and killed. Physical resources contributed to Salva's survival greatly as it offered him many
