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and interaction, and social constructs in order to flourish. The first element of relatedness deals with marital relations. First, I am going to focus on the cultural of the Nuer. They are a society that lives in South Sudan. The initial wedding ritual of the Nuer does not confer relatedness…

along either. The rivalry between the two largest ethnic groups in Sudan, the Dinka and the Nuer, are eminent within the novel. The refugees are stopped by Nuer looters. When they raided every article the refugees had, they took Uncle Jewiir to a tree and shot him. Nya’s mother worries for her husband and son whenever they go out to hunt, the possibility that the Dinka could harm them, members of the Nuer, is a very real occurrence. Violent relationships are minor compared to the others within…

Water. The author is Linda Sue Park and it is Realistic Fiction. The theme I chose was suffering. In this book there are 2 main characters Salva and Nya. Salva is a caring boy from the Dinka Tribe. Nya is a hardworking girl from the Nuer Tribe. The Dinka and the Nuer are enemies. Both characters exemplify the theme of suffering. The setting is Southern Sudan. The conflicts Nya has are getting water, thrones and taking sister to get water. (Page 1) Nya has to walk hours to get to a pond for…

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…

school was attacked and bombed, he escaped and had to run away from the fighting. Nya’s journey involved a long time fight between the Nuer and Dinka tribesmen. Even though Nya didn’t directly deal with war like Salva did, her village’s men including her father and brother did when they went out to hunt for food. There was always a chance they would run into the Nuer tribesmen which meant war. That’s how Salva and Nya dealt with war, they both had to fear losing their family.…

Sudan has been at war from almost the moment it gained its independence in 1956. Its first civil war lasted from 1962 to 1972. In 1983 civil war breaks out once again and this lasted until 2005. In 2006 the peace is broken and numerous clashes between rival factions kill hundreds, if not thousands of people, between 2006 to 2012. In 2011, the government of South Sudan took a vote to become an independent country. Since the separation of the two countries, South Sudan began experiencing conflict…

was Salva’s uncle. His uncle used to fight in the army, and he was known to be a good leader. Since he was such a good leader, Salva’s group made him their leader. This arrangement was good for a while, but yet again it would not last. Men from the Nuer tribe came up to his uncle, robbed him along with the whole group and proceeded to tie him up to a tree. At that moment “three shots rang out” (63). Then the men ran away and the group was left flabbergasted, and without a leader. Now that Marial…

Dinka (35%) and the Nuer (15%). The South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, is a Dinka, but appointed Riek Machar, a Nuer, as vice president, as a way to express unity among the new nations ethnic groups. Machar soon started to berate Kiir’s policies, and proceeded to threaten running against him in the next election. This escalated to all out threats between the two groups, and in 2013 a second civil war began. With troops loyal to Kiir (Dinka) fighting forces loyal to Machar (Nuer), they also…

also wrote,” One Single Shard and Seesaw Girl.” Linda Sue Park writes realistic fiction. This story is about Salva Dut, a boy who is part of the dinka and separated from his family at a young age, due to war. And about Naya, a girl who is part of the nuer tribe, and has to walk eight hours a day to get water for her family, that isn’t even clean. Nya is a little girl with a big tasc. She has to walk eight hours a day just to get something as simple as water. All of us are lucky, water is the…

Lost Boys of Sudan. Sudan is a country located in Africa just South of Sahara and it stretches from Eastern to Western Central Africa. The Lost Boys of Sudan is a group of more than 40,000 boys, they have now grown up, that belong to the Dinka and Nuer ethnic group. When the Lost boys first fled Ethiopia, to escape induction into the northern army or death, the majority were maybe six or seven years old. They then walked more than a thousand miles, the majority of the dying, to find safety in…