Pop! Crack pop! Ack-ack-ack-ack-ack! The gunfire sends Salva's teacher into a frenzy in which he commands them to run into the bush. Little does Salva know, this action will change his life forever. Sound cliché? Salva’s whole story follows his struggles to survive and his will to find his family, so this is not an overstatement. The aforementioned example is just one of many stories and scenarios in which a character or in fact a real person is compelled to set off on a life changing journey. But not all start out, nor will turn out like Salva’s did, in which he found his family. People set out on journeys because they feel that it will change them forever. And they know that they will understand life better when they return from their journey.
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The lessons that their prior journey instilled in them helped them to find the strength to prevent the hardships they experienced from happening again for others. In the book A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva says: “A year passed, then two... then three. Salva spoke to hundreds of people - in churches, at civic organizations, in schools. Would he ever be able to turn his idea into reality? Whenever he found himself losing hope, Salva would take a deep breath and think of his uncle's words. A step at a time. One problem at a time - just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved towards his goal.” This shows how Salva, in a new challenge, thinks of people and lessons he learned on his big journey. His new goal is to help build water wells for South Sudan. On his previous journey, he had gotten very upset when he felt stuck. But this time around, he knew exactly what to do - because he had experienced it …show more content…
As mentioned before, in the book Lions of Little Rock, Marlee helps her town become fair and equal again. In the text it says, “But I thought I saw something different in their faces, a determination to make Little Rock a different place than it was before.” Marlee’s determination causes widespread support for her efforts. So even though it took Marlee a school year to get where she ended up, she affected others for a lifetime. In the book The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, by Phillip Hoose, Knud Pedersen is just a normal teen in Denmark when the Nazis arrive. But he creates a sabotage club called the “Churchill Club,” and they attack Nazi buildings but never kill anyone. However, they are caught and get put in jail, but they do not stop there. They escape jail every night until they are moved to a better prison. But they definitely changed their country in that time. In the text it says, “Familiar streets told of a Denmark that had changed radically while the brothers were behind bars. Shop owners who had sold goods to German soldiers in the old days now stared through windows of empty stores.” This shows that their efforts changed their country, even if they weren’t their. Since the boys had the initiative, it was inevitable that there would be a chain reaction to help continue their
The lessons that their prior journey instilled in them helped them to find the strength to prevent the hardships they experienced from happening again for others. In the book A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva says: “A year passed, then two... then three. Salva spoke to hundreds of people - in churches, at civic organizations, in schools. Would he ever be able to turn his idea into reality? Whenever he found himself losing hope, Salva would take a deep breath and think of his uncle's words. A step at a time. One problem at a time - just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved towards his goal.” This shows how Salva, in a new challenge, thinks of people and lessons he learned on his big journey. His new goal is to help build water wells for South Sudan. On his previous journey, he had gotten very upset when he felt stuck. But this time around, he knew exactly what to do - because he had experienced it …show more content…
As mentioned before, in the book Lions of Little Rock, Marlee helps her town become fair and equal again. In the text it says, “But I thought I saw something different in their faces, a determination to make Little Rock a different place than it was before.” Marlee’s determination causes widespread support for her efforts. So even though it took Marlee a school year to get where she ended up, she affected others for a lifetime. In the book The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, by Phillip Hoose, Knud Pedersen is just a normal teen in Denmark when the Nazis arrive. But he creates a sabotage club called the “Churchill Club,” and they attack Nazi buildings but never kill anyone. However, they are caught and get put in jail, but they do not stop there. They escape jail every night until they are moved to a better prison. But they definitely changed their country in that time. In the text it says, “Familiar streets told of a Denmark that had changed radically while the brothers were behind bars. Shop owners who had sold goods to German soldiers in the old days now stared through windows of empty stores.” This shows that their efforts changed their country, even if they weren’t their. Since the boys had the initiative, it was inevitable that there would be a chain reaction to help continue their