The Long Walk

If you were on a long, dangerous journey in Southern Sudan, what traits would you need to survive? In A Long Walk To Water, Salva and Nya are both going through daily hardships of life in Southern Sudan. Two times a day, Nya (in the year 2008-2009) must make a long trip down to the pond to get water for her family. Salva is in school one day in 1985 when an attack goes on and he is told to flee into the bushes and not return home. This causes a long and hard search for his family and refugee…

A Long Walk to Forever - SPICE Catharine opened her door, and there stood Newt, her childhood friend. It was only one week before Catharine would be married to Henry, the man she loved. Newt was part of the military and had gone AWOL to meet Catharine that day. He convinced Catharine to join him for a walk. During their walk, Newt tried to convince Catharine to love him, each time being turned down. During the walk, Newt kissed Catharine a total of three times. By the end of the walk, Catharine…

Salva and Nya thirst for more than the water as their parallel stories unfold in Linda Sue Park A Long Walk To Water. Even Though there stories are far apart Sudan's struggle is still a active problem. Salva spent most of his childhood without his family to point him in the right direction. From the time he was young until he was a young adult he spent many hours in a day for months at a time walking away from the war that was ravaging his home country. His childhood was filled with the fear,…

Those ideas are even visible in the novel A Long Walk to Water, in which the real-life protagonist Salva walks away from the Sudan civil war and later founds Water for South Sudan. Children that walk to school, as shown in the film On the Way to School also understand these ideas. But how? Choices help one form identity and community through the motivation of goals they have picked. It is obvious that people like Salva, the protagonist of A Long Walk to Water, and Jackson, the older boy from…

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 him to the refugee camp…

The Journey in Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water was very challenging to everyone who traveled. Though the main character, Salva, went through many challeges in the journey, he survived the journey with determination, and the knowledge to survive. Salva did many things in his long journey, and he definetly worked very hard, for his survival. On page 43 the text states, “‘Salva staggered forward with yet another enormous load of reed in his arms. Everyone was busy’ (43).” This means that…

knight). In the historical fiction book Nobody Knows by Shelley Tanaka and the historical fiction book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. Nobody Knows was about a mom leaving her kids and the kids had to take care of themselves and pay taxes and do adult things ,and without the dad it leaves the eldest kids to take care of his younger siblings and the oldest is only 12 years old. A Long Walk To Water is about a kid who had his village burnt down and most of his family died but his uncle…

At the beginning of chapter 9, in the novel “A Long Walk To Water” the author’s tone when walking in a desert is simply revealed to be rejection. Firstly, the author quotes of the text that “Each minute of walking in that arid heat felt like an hour,” in which it means that it felt you’re boiling, and also felt like you’re striding an hour when walking in a desert. This shows, that the author is despising the “walking for an hour” in a desert, and the heat waves that carry on to it. Secondly,…

Long walk of tears The Navajos were moved to Basque Redondo for several reasons, though the precipitating cause came as president Polk, wanted to expand America’s boundaries as a part of the Manifest destiny, an authorization from god to occupy North America, Canada, and South America. The manifest destiny saw the natives as inferior to the Christian beliefs of the settlers. In addition to seeing the natives as inferior, they were also seen as incapable of taking care of the land as they had…

This is a story called “A Long Walk to Water”. A realistic fiction story and a story about hope By Linda Sue Park. The theme hope relates to Nya because she's needs to keep hope when she walks every day 3 times a day to water. It relates to Salva because he has to finding hope in finding his family and getting away from the war. One of the main characters in this story is Nya. Nya relates to my theme “hope” because she was to walk miles to get dirty water three times a day back and forth just…