Book Report: A Long Walk To Water

“Mawien Dut sprinkles water on his son’s head, the Dinka way of blessing someone who was lost.” This reveals that Salva’s father and Salva have made it. The protected land in Africa. This also shows both of them being delighted and speechless to see each other. No words could come out of their mouths. Sobs of joy between both of them. Infinity love between both of them. Success between both of them. Amazement. Joy. LOVE. Additionally, they were one family again and were safe from the 21-year old civil war. If you look closely through the lenses of culture, you could see Dinka family members pouring water over their kid’s head. Later in the novel, Salva, delightful and solicitous. Began helping the other big tribe; the Nuer. The tribe killed his Uncle. The tribes have been fighting with his tribe for hundreds of years. The tribes have many similarities. Salva has helped make the Nuer think. “The Dinka and the Nuer were enemies-had been for hundreds of years. Why would a Dinka bring water to us?” This shows, Salva was resourceful to everyone in Southern Sudan. He gave everyone in Southern Sudan the right resources to eat and drink. Even his worst enemies. This also shows that Salva changed hundreds of lives in Southern Sudan. Furthermore, this idea makes people’s mind change about killing the other big tribe. If you look closely through the lens of place, you could see everyone feel joyful. Lucky. And mostly caring. This all happens

It took 648 miles to walk from Southern Sudan to Ethiopia. Salva did this on an empty stomach with no food or water. Do you think you would survive in a 100 degree weather with no food or water, with the same cloths that you been wearing for a year? Because salva did. In the book “A Long Walk to Water” written by Linda Sue park, she talks about Salva's journey that took years and years to get to safety after the war stated. The war came to his village while he was in school he had to run to the bush with not knowing where is his family or even knowing if they are alive. Salva was running from the war for 24 years before he finally found safety in the united states. He was 11 when he started to run, he met a friend along the way but he sadly died due to being eaten by a lion. He also meant his uncle along the way which help Salva gain confidence that he was going to make it out alive, but again the uncle passed away due to three men shooting him, because he was trying to keep everyone safe. In this essay I am going to prove that we can learn to never give up even if things are at the worst point possible and if you take things one step at a time you will get through whatever you are struggling with. The key aspects I am going to be talking about are how did Salva learn never give up and even when salva is at his worst he never gives up and still has hope that he is going to make it out alive. My first body paragraph I am explaining how salva never gave up.

Sadly, a group of nuer that was against the Dinka had killed salva's uncle."They buried uncle in a hole about two feet deep, a hole that has already been made by some kind of animal."(64) Not only did Salva loose Marial but he also lost the only family member that was close to him. Salva couldnt hold on to this forver. This was the best they couldve done for his uncle, bury him. There was no way that his unc couldve cam back to life so Salva had to get over this tragic event to keep going. Even though he was in shock, he kept on traveling the next day.He couldnt stop moving. He knw that in his heart. It was logical that he continued with the group, othrwise he wouldve been left behind as the group didnt care for him any more since his uncle died. Following his uncle's death, "..the group's attitude toward him changed."(65) they had all thought that he was too small and weak to go along with the group. So as predicted they've started to neglect him again. Even though times were tough, Salva still begged for scraps because it was all he was going to get and he had to accept that. One of Salva's goals was to reunite with his family again.But deep in his mind he always knew that ther was a possiblity that he could never see his family again bcause they couldve ben kileld. But slava nevr chose to accept that reality, instead he looked on the bright said and

After six years of living in a refugee camp, Salva had learned that they are closing the camps, “they are going to close the camp, Everyone will have to leave” (73). Salva had then began his walk once again. As Salva was walking he was joined by thousands of men, “crowds of other boys followed him”(80). Salva had then stepped up and been the leader. Salva had decided the decisions for the group. Throughout the journey many had lived, but also many had died. Once they had reached a new camp, they had found that it is no better than the one before. There were more

I’ve been reading ‘ A Long Walk To Water’ recently and i have realized that salva and Nya have shaped different identities. Salva has an identity as a lost child or a brave child. while nya is known was a good child or a listener. How do you think that you’ve shaped your identity?

A young eleven-year-old boy named Salva finds himself in a difficult situation during the Sudanese Civil war in 1985. To keep surviving he must continue traveling to safe places by foot. In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, a young boy named Salva lived in South Sudan where there was a war called the Sudanese civil war in 1985. He walked distances to camps to find a safe place to survive. Salva survives during the war.

Amos Kincaid was born to Delilah Kincaid in November 1833. Jake Kincaid, a trapper and dowser was the father of Amos, and left every couple of months to continue trapping. He would return in the later months to visit Amos, for Delilah died giving birth and Jake wasn’t prepared to raise him. For the first majority of his life, Amos was raised by his aunt Rebecca and his uncle Gil. Rebecca was kind hearted but couldn’t bear children. Over time Rebecca taught Amos to read and write, along with some children from the Native American tribes. This ended however when Rebecca came down with smallpox. Which she obtained from tending to the Native American children, who didn’t want to receive the vaccination. Rebecca then begged Gil to shoot her to relieve

Linda Sue Park’s intriguing novel A Long Walk to Water reveals the impact of the devastation of war on Sudan's inhabitants and the ultimate struggle for survival. Even though giving up continues to be the easiest option, Salva Dut, an adolescent from South Sudan, fights for his life while holding on to the little hope he has. In spite of the devastation and conflict, Salva remains strong and continues to persevere to survival, saving numerous lives along the way. Salva, still with hope, struggles to survive while persevering thorough the countless hardships he encounters.

Acceptance is an important thing in life,. In Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk To Water, the main character’s story is based on his life in the past, Salva Dut. For Salva acceptance gets him through a lot. When he was 11 years old, a war broke out in his country causing him to run away from home becoming a refugee with no family. The heat and lack of water in Sudan didn’t help Salva survive at all, but acceptance did.

Now Salva’s 22, he’s learned how to play volleyball and how to speak English. Then one day there’s a rumor going around camp that some people with good health and who don’t have families will be chosen to fly to America. Salva is chosen and later travels to New York and lives his life there, he then starts an organization for building wells back in Sudan and once he raises enough money he flies back down to his home country to help the people still living there. He built wells and schools for the children there not only for his tribe but for the all the other ones as well. Many people believe that the theme would be too help others although none of that would have happened if Salva didn’t persevere through all the sorrow he’s been through. He had a lot of questions with unknown answers but he still kept walking. When he saw his own Uncle get murdered he kept going. Even when he swam through the bloody crocodile river he never stopped. If you really want something you need to keep an open mind and don’t give up on yourself, until you achieve your goal, keep on persevering, just like Salva

A Long Walk to Water By Linda Sue Park Describes how How Salva Dut was driven out of Sudan because of war then moves to America and creates a organization to help villages in south Sudan get water. It first started when had to run away from his family and school because of war to a Ethiopian refugee camp. Then forced out of the camp by the Ethiopian government. Then leads a group of kids to a refugee camp in Kenya. After that he moved to America and created a organization that gets water for south Sudan. Also in the book Salva was making a well for a village and runs in to another character in the book.

In the beginning of the book Salva’s village is being shot up and he is told to flee/run into the bush. Once Salva is in the bush him and the other kids start walking. After a couple days they more and more people join them. They then are stopped by a military group that took all the men and left the women and children. (pg.12). While salva was with his big group after he had found his uncle he had made a good friend,Marial. Salva and his group had a late night and salva slept for a long time. When he awoke he awoke to the sound of crying and his uncle told him. That Marial had been killed in the night.(pg.38) Salve overcame this by telling himself that Marial would want him to make it safely and that kept salve going. Another thing that happened to him was when salva and his group were stopped by a group of nuer soldiers. The soldiers raided the camp, Tied Salva’s uncle to a tree, And shot him with his own weapon.(pg.63) Salva overcame this the same way he overcame Marial’s death, by telling himself that he had to finish the trip for uncle and Marial. Salva also overcame many obstacles in the United

A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park shows how a little boy can get through the toughest times because Salva was a little boy who lived in a small village in Southern Sudan was attacked by the Nuer tribe because the village was Dinka. Salva ran with this other group, then they found a barn to sleep in. When Salva woke up he saw that everyone had left him, Salva then saw an old lady that gave him a bag of peanuts, also this lady convinced this other group that Salva would not be hassle to take with them. Salva then makes a friend named Marial and later finds his uncle. They later find them selves in a desert to sleep in. Marial goes missing when everyone wakes up, they think he was killed because there was blood in the spot Marial was sleeping

Linda Sue Park created Nya in “A long Walk To water because it represents every girl/women’s life in her village. Also, it tells about women rights in Sudan.To begin with, every female has to get water for the family. This is because chapter four states “ When she was done, she took the bowl back inside. Her mother was nursing the baby, Nya’s little brother. ‘Take Akeer with you, She needs to learn”(page 20). This quote shows that in Nya’s culture, a girl has to learn about getting water at a young age.

I chose the book A Long walk to water for my literary pumpkin. I chose A long walk to water because it is a nonfiction book ,about Salva and Nya. The girl Nya is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home, she makes two trips to the pond every day but then at the end of the book she gets good clean water. The boy Salva becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Then one day he goes to America and gets a family and then a couple weeks or months later he gets an email from his cousin and its about his father, then Salva sees his father and gets to hear things about his family and father.