A Long Walk to Water Essay

The Sudan Lifestyle By:Akilah Pena Do you know anything about Southern Sudan? According to the book “A Long Walk To Water” people can learn more about the Sudan lifestyle. Sudanese lifestyle is nothing like the lifestyle the United States has today. Most people from the United States think that the Sudanese lifestyle is worse than the United States today. Some people assign strong people to come and live in the United States to stay strong an healthy and to give them a fun life. Southern…

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…

A Long Walk To Water One of the very important themes in the book A Long Walk To Water is perseverance.The first example of perseverance is when Salva was crossing the Akobo Desert. Even though he had stubbed his toe and his whole toenail came off he found the perseverance in him to keep in going with the help of his uncle.The second example to prove that Perseverance is this book's theme is when salva had survived the Gilo River. The Gilo River was a river that at the time had dangerously…

book and brief background knowledge of Sudanese war and Salva): In a Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva experiences many challenges as a result of the Sudanese War. Thesis/Claim: Challenges such as, Salva's Uncle had died in the war, Salva had to cross the Nile river which were crocodile infested. Body 1 (Challenge and survival factor 1) Topic sentence: There have been many challenges for Salva in A Long Walk To Water. Challenge Description: Salva is alone after Uncle's death.…

saying is even though is life will be cut short he will still enjoy what he has left because of the people who care for him. If Morrie can enjoy his life while dying then every other person should be able to as well. As shown in the novella; A Long Walk to Water, people living in Africa have way less to live for then Americans and other wealthier countries. Africans are most likely hungry or are not in very good health and still find time to sing and dance and enjoy what they can. There is no…

Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…

Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water and is demonstrated by Salva in this story. The first example is Salva, he had to persevere through many things. The first thing he had to persevere through is getting away from the rebel soldiers. Salva had to run away from his home and family in the hope of seeing them again. Salva encountered many occasions where the rebel soldiers killed many people around him and Salva had to keep persevering through these tragedies. In this story…

Throughout salva’s personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader. Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was…

In the novel a long walk to water by Lind Sav Park, Nya was a person who would walk for water. Salva ran away from war so he won't die, and Salva found Nya and he build a well in Nya village. Salva found his uncle. Salva learned how to speak english because he went to america. Salva was the age of 11. Salva was in the dinka tribe. The factors that made survival possible for Salva is that he learned how to read and write english and has to take care of himself. The first survival factor Salva…

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…