A Long Walk To Water Summary

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A Long Walk to Water is a novel by Linda Sue Park. This novel is about Salva, an eleven-year -old Sudanese boy who grows up in South Sudan. Later in the novel, he has faced challenges one wouldn’t dream of facing, through a long period of time. He has learned, if one helps other people, those people will then help more people, which will result in more happiness in the world. He is a round character, who changes throughout the novel. Salva is a different person at the end of the book. He has gone from hearing his death journey to fighting for survival to helping transform people’s lives forever.

In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a story about one out of a thousand Southern Sudan lost boys named, Salva. Salva is a boy who ran away during the Southern Sudanese War. Salva moves from country to country to get away from this war. During the war he loses touch of his family. Salva soon escapes the war, now he’s trying to find his way to safety. Salva was able to survive In A Long Walk to Water, by having bravery, courage, and showing grit.

In a long walk to water by Linda sue park, the book shows what life was like for Nya, an eleven year old Nuer girl in Sudan, and the struggles that she faced. First Nya was carrying a jug to get water then, she came back. She explained how far she has to walk each day just to get water. After that, Nya's sister, Akeer gets sick and her family makes the choice that she must be taken to a doctor. As a result of Akeer going to the doctor, she ends up getting better. Akeers problem was that the water wasn't clean enough. Soon thereafter, visitors come to Nya's village and talk of water. The visitors turn out to be workers and plan to dig and find clean water for the village. Eventually, after a year of hard work the workers see new water

Kobe Bryant once said, “Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise”. This quote is demonstrated in both A Night Divided and A Long Walk to Water as in both books the characters face great challenges that allow them to rise above others. In A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen Gerta and her family are divided by the Berlin Wall. Gerta’s oldest brother, Dominique, and father are in the west and Gerta her other brother, Fritz, and their mother are in the east. They decide to tunnel under the wall to get to the west for a better life and to get back to their family. This is their escape story. In the story, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. Salva is in Sudan and his village is under attack by the rebels. He is separated from his family and must learn to survive the harsh conditions of Sudan to get to peace. The Salva’s family gets divided as and he is by himself. This is his account of his escape to the refugee camps. In both books, A Night divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen, and, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park the authors use plot sequence to develop the theme, times of hardships and danger develop perseverance.

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There's many factors that leads to one's survival. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is a creative non-fiction story about the life of one of the Lost Boys from South Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War; whose name is Salva. His journey wasn't the easiest in fact he was at risk for dying at any given second. There were multiple factors contributing to his survival, his uncle, determination, and physical resources. Salva's uncle was one of the main factors. He gave Salva the will to go on so he doesn't lose sight of what's important. Traveling across the hot dense desert isn't easy. Given the circumstances survival wasn't likely. But Salva proved that with willpower the toughest challenges can be overcome. While

After reading the novel and accounts of the experiences of the people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War, write an essay that addresses the theme of survival by answering the question: What factors made survival possible for Salva in A Long Walk to Water?

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night.

In the novel, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, A girl named Nya was walking to water. A boy named salva was running away from war. Nya finally reached the water, and went home. Salva has started walking to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Nya has moved by a lake to have water during a dry season, but after a couple months she goes back home. Salva finally reaches a refugee camp, but he eventually moves to different ones. The villagers in Nya’s village are improving their living space. Salva goes to live in America, but eventually goes back to Sudan to see his father. Nya’s village finished the improvements to their village. Then, Nya saw salva and went to say thank you for improving her village. Salva’s age changes throughout the story, at

Linda Sue Park´s novel, A Long Walk to Water tells about the stories of Nya and Salva. Salva´s character is a young boy who survives the Second Sudanese Civil War by running away from war. Nya is a character that symbolizes all of the women in Southern Sudan who have to walk miles for dirty unclean water. Individuals survive challenging environments in this novel with water, encouragement, and family.

In the book A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park one of our characters are leaders that have to go through very dangerous things on his journeys. One of the main themes in this book is dangerous situations make people leaders. Salva and Uncle Jewiir both end up being leaders somewhere in the book, but I think that Uncle Jewiir becoming the leader is more important. One page thirty four Uncle Jewiir came to Salva’s group to help get everyone safely to the refugee camp. Uncle became the leader because he had been working in the army so he was able to take his gun with him, so he can shoot food for everyone in the group. Uncle Jewiir was a very good leader and he always tried motivating everyone to keep going and get to the final detonation

Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk To Water because in the book a eleven year old boy needs to travel through hardships without his family to survive. Salva needed to keep trying in order to survive and hopefully one day find his family. When the group was crossing the Akobo Desert (on page 53), Salva’s uncle pointed at landmarks for him to walk to so then he wouldn’t give up. Another part where Salva needed to persevere was when he was in the Ifo camp. Many people flooded into the water being pushed in by soldiers. Many people died trying to cross because they were either being shot, drowned, or was attacked by crocodile. But Salva persevered and kept trying to cross even though he almost drowned.

A Long Walk to Water is a true story written by Linda Sue Park. She describes to us the journey that a young boy, Salva Dut, is forced on due to the Sudanese Civil War. Throughout his journey, the reader is exposed to many life lessons. Three of these lessons, which are themes throughout the book, are: family can provide support through times of hardship, nature poses many threats to our survival, and access to water can be the difference between life and death.

Based on the first chapter and the title of the novel, where is Nya going?