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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…

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    Accepting others helps people get through life. In the novel, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, acceptance comes in and out of the story, many times. One example was that the old woman let Salva stay in her barn for many nights before he had to go walk to the refugee camp. Another example was that Salva accepted another part of a Dinka tribe and the Jur-Chol into their group to walk with them to the refugee camp. My last example was that Salva accepted fifteen hundred boys to walk with…

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    In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a true story about one of the thousands of Lost Boys of Sudan, named Salva. Salva ran when the Second Sudanese Civil War hit his village. This story takes place in Southern Sudan to Ethiopia to Kenya. He moves from country to country to get away from the war. Also Linda made up a character, named Nya. Just to incite how life was after the war. Linda Sue Park’s main character, Salva survived by being strategic, by getting help from others, and by…

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    Long Walk To Water Theme

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    I read a book called a long walk to water by linda sue parks. There was a boy named salva, he live in southern sudan and he was at school one day. It was a normal day or so he thought they heard gunshots outside. They were told to run into the bush not back home and so he did. He was considered a lost boy and he could not find his family. He was sure that his family was dead because he has been in a refugee camp for about 16 years. Then he gets adopted by a family in america and he gets some…

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    A long walk to water Salva relied on not giving up and mental toughness and motivation. Imagine your town is under attack and you're in school then your teacher tells you to run but you want to go get your family but you alsodont want to save yourself from the horror in your city that is one of salvas problems. I probably could survived like salva because i’m pretty tough all you need is a positive attitude,mental toughness and motivation. A positive attitude is like you not…

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    Who Is Salva's Sacrifice?

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    He was tied to a tree and 3 gun shots rang and my heart dropped a long walk to water by linda sue park. salva is a survivor because he was shot at while almost getting drowned. he lost he family, and became a leader to over 200 lost boys. Salva and all of the other people at the refuge cape were lead out into the desert and forced to get in while being shot at. The refugee camp was forced to shut down because the government fell and they would no longer allow refugees to live in their country…

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    in 1964 which gave colored people rights such as voting. However, many white individuals in the south didn't agree with this bill that was passed, leading to a battle of what the law said, and what the people had been practicing for decades. Sue Monk Kidd captures this backlash and denial in her book, The Secret Life of Bees. The interactions her main character has with other characters, colored or white, show a deeper understanding of the treatment after the Civil Rights Act. Having a white…

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    How Many Themes Does The Author Use? Many! In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Written by Sue Monk Kidd, the author tries to thoroughly convey many themes towards the readers of the book. In this book, the author Sue Monk Kidd goes in depth on the irrationality of racism, and how many people think that people of colour are vicious, or just useless human beings without a purpose, without actually giving any thought about it, and just saying whatever pops into their heads. The author goes into…

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    they continue to remain closely bonded with great respect towards own another. Although the girls are born a different race and background, Sue Monk Kidd writes about how astonishing similarly and different they are in their own unique ways. Handful has worked for the Grimké family almost all her life as Sarah’s personal servant and seamstress. As any…

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    Bees is a well-acclaimed bildungsroman and historic novel written by Sue Monk Kidd about the protagonist Lily Melissa Owens, and her growing personal independence, her expanding knowledge of the world, her revelation about the family in the past, and her spiritual journey. The entire novel was written in first-person angle about Lily’s experiences and thoughts, focusing largely on the spiritual aspect; nonetheless, Sue Monk Kidd did also elaborate her thoughts about the issue of racism, about…

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