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    The Caged Bird and “The Long Walk Home” The caged bird in Richard Pearce’s screenplay, “The Long Walk Home,” is know one because the caged bird will always be locked up and at the end of the screenplay the African Americans end up being free. Although the white people don’t like the concept of African Americans joining in with them, they are going to have to learn how to live a normal life with them. In the middle of the movie Miriam gets scared when Odessa brings up the topic when all the…

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    When you have faith, you trust or believe in something very strongly. It is through this idea that we can better understand the meaning of not only the novel "Unbroken" but also the movie "The Long Walk Home". Faith can be used to interpret the meaning of these works because it is what the characters use to overcome their hardships. It is what gets them through possibly the most difficult times of their lives. The novel "Unbroken" tells the story of a bombardier named Louis Zamperini who…

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    There are over 20,000 Lost boys in Sudan. In the book “A long Walk to Water” show how Salva had many challenges that he faced before, during, and after the Sudanese Civil War. Three reason that show the challenges Salva faced before, during, and after the Sudanese War are that he had to take care of cows and had to do school work, to keep on walking even though he was hurting, and how different the weather was. First of all the only worry he had before he started walking was taking care of the…

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    Jesse Treece is an artist that creates various photomontage collages into unique compositions. He does this by incorporating distinct photographic scenes into one. “Long Walks On The Beach” is one good example in which he created a collage of two separate scenes in one picture. In this art work, the image portrays two people walking on the beach, but the sky appears to be an image of a planet. “Discoface” is another interesting collage of his because he created the composition out of three or…

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    BALAR Imagine swimming across a river full of alligators while being shot at by armed soldiers. In the book “A Long Walk To Water” the second Sudanese war took place when Salva was in school waiting to go home and see his family, but he never got home. In that same book Salva shows a great character by showing leadership, determination and courage. After I read that book’s(A long water to water) epilogue I found out that Salva is a strong lost boy. First of all, I think that Salva is a…

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    Salva joined a group of people from his village on a long walk to find refugee camps in Ethiopia. I have chosen the theme about Salva as a character. In the beginning, Salva was weak because he lost his family, the group of men he was with was not being nice to him, and his uncle got shot by the rebels. In the middle until the end, he got a little bit stronger when he got to a new camp, he got a chance to go to America, and he might have…

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    they are left waiting longer than it takes in order to solve the problem they are currently facing. Students have experienced waiting times anywhere from half an hour to two hours on some accounts. I have personally encountered long periods of waiting just…

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    “ Where is my family?” (9), that is the question that so many people living in Sudan had, just how Salva had asked a million times. A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park is a true story about the war crisis in Sudan. An 11 year old boy named Salva Dut has to leave everything behind, even his family when the gunfire from the war hit his village of Loun-Ariik (Dinka village). Salva walked for months and months across an arid desert to reach safety at a refugee camp in Ethiopia only to be…

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    relationships, between tribes, between family, between People is a heavily stressed theme within the novel, A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park. One of Salva’s largest motivations to continue walking and survive is his family. The tribes’ interactions with each other are prevalent within the work. Multiple characters have had important relationships to Salva as well as Nya. A Long Walk to Water is a story driven through the interactions of people. The tight bonds within the tribes…

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    and I am going to share a few. Salva must overcome these challenges, or his life might be in danger. In the book A Long Walk to Water, the main character Salva Dut has a wild life. He must live through this life or it won’t end well. I am going to talk about the challenges Salva Dut faces in the book A Long Walk to Water. Salva faces many challenges in his life because he must walk through the Akobo Desert in three days time, he witnesses the death of his uncle, and finally, Salva’s best friend…

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