Book Report: A Long Walk To Water

11 year old Salva Dut became orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War, when around 2 million were killed and millions were displaced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boys_of_Sudan). In A Long Walk To Water, by Linda Sue Park, one of the main themes is perseverance. The book is about a young boy who is forced to flee his village, due to a war. He meets a few people along the way, he is faced with very catastrophic events. Throughout the book Salva learns how to deal with challenges. Salva keeps pushing through all of his hardships. Salva had to keep walking and walking till he found a new safe destination. “The days became a never-ending walk. Salva’s feet kept time with the thoughts in his head, the same words over and over: where is my family? Where is my family? (pg 22)” One of Salvas great character traits is how he is strong even though he had to leave his village on his own at 11 years old. Salva perseveres through the deaths of his loved ones, to finding food and shelter and he pushes through with hope.

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.

A Long Walk to Water is a book about a young refugee named Salva Dut. Said boy was also part of the Lost Boys of Sudan, a group of over 20,000 boys displaced and/or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Salva found himself joining group after group along the way, as he had been separated from his family. He faced many challenges, ranging from loved ones dying, crossing dangerous terrains, and having to travel far distances seeking security. His sheer determination and willpower urged him on in these circumstances, as well as some other key factors I will not be elaborating upon.

In the narrative poem “Death Over Water,” by Elizabeth Rhett Woods, the speaker demonstrates the comparison between ice-dancing and the eagle and the gull by employing an extended metaphor, which means using metaphor throughout a poem in order to illustrate the correspondences. There are some similarities between ice-dancing terms and the terms in the poem, identical movements, and the alike dominance of stronger partner over the weaker one. The speaker attempts to make the reader consider about the crows and how they “swirl around the death due / spiralling lower” to express the same term between the poem and ice-dancing, which is the “death spiral” (Woods 21-22). This refers to spinning females in ice-dancing. In addition, the speaker talks

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

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.

A kid separated from his family and put into a war front at the age of 12 change this kids life forever. In A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider, Ishmael Beah was put through a lot during the cold war in Sierra Leone, and he was given drugs and pills to keep his energy to fight in the war and he was turned into a killer. There where lots of people killed and torture and Beah was just a kid and he was ver frightened and confused about everything. Also Beah and his friends travel around the country for years trying to survive the war and figure out ways to find there way to safety. The theme of the book is no matter what don't give up on yourself because if you give up on yourself your already bound for failure and the during the hole story Beah used resilience to keep on going and not give up.

Survival is a good theme in the book “A Long Walk To Water” because Salva (the male character) has to go through a lot of discomfort, and needs to survive without his family. The first upcoming example of survival is when Salva gets left behind from the group of rebels in the barn, this happened because war came to Salva’s town and killed about everyone, while this was happening Salva was in school and needed to run into the brush where he found the rebels. When Salva gets left behind he doesn’t know what he’s going to do, but when he goes outside he finds a woman sitting on a bench, Salva didn’t know if this woman is Nuer or Dinka for Salva to know this he has to see the scar mark on the woman’s face. The woman

According to Enid Blyton “The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.” What this quote means is that challenges and obstacles help us to progress further in life to get us somewhere better. This is an effective quote for “The Color of Water” by James McBride because, throughout the book, both James and Ruth had challenges that came their way but after overcoming it they both were able to find a solution. In the book, both Ruth and James were able to overcome obstacles in order to resolve both internal and external conflicts in their lives.

A book about a kid named Salva and his life as a refugee A Long Walk To Water by: Linda Sue Park. First i will talk about Salva he was 11 living in Southern Sudan when a war started in 1985 and he was in school. Then he had to start walking and he met lots of people and his uncle who kept him alive. He walked for 1 year, then stayed in a refugee camp for 6 years. Then his life changed and his name was on a list to go to America New York. When he got there he got a family and went to college. Next, life got happier he got an email that his father was alive but his brothers died. Finally, he raised enough money to start drilling water holes in villages in Sudan. Throughout his life he met lots of challenges, but just kept walking and never gave

“A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. I think in this book the theme is survival. I know this because in Salva’s story he is just trying to stay alive in the war. This is also the theme in Nya’s story because she fetches water every day just so she and her family doesn't die both characters exemplify the theme of survival as they fight through the story. Nya South Sudan 2006-2009 conflicts water, food and war.

Suffering is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water. One example of suffering in the book is when Salva had to cross the Akobo dessert, “Salva reached for his gourd. He knew it had to be half full, but suddenly it felt much lighter, as if there was hardly any water left in it.” (58). Salva’s uncle also tells him to stop drinking his water because the will not survive the rest of the walk with only a little bit of water. Salva also sees men dying of thirst and thinks if he was older if he would give his water to the men. A second example of suffering is when Nya’s sister gets sick. Nya’s sister gets sick from dirty water. They have to walk a day just to find a hospital. The lady at the hospital tells Nya’s mom to boil the water,

Salva the main character of “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park was an 11-year old boy when his village was attacked. His teacher urged him to run away from the village and to run to the “bush.” After that attack, his life made a turn for the worse. With no family around him, he was completely lost. During his journey, he had some problems, but overcame

The book A Long Walk to Water is based on true story. The book is based in Africa, but in two different time periods. The first-time period is in 1985 based around a boy and his family by the name of Salva. The second-time period is in 2008 and is based on a girl by the name of Nya. In 1985, war had broken out in Salva’s village while he was at school. He ran for his life until he was safe not knowing where his family was. Until he was safe he hid out in a barn pending he had to leave. He found some people form his tribe and they set out on an adventure to find a refugee camp, until one-day Salva seen a familiar face, his uncle. His uncle then became the leader of the group and they had a long and hard journey til’ his uncle was killed by government members.

Introduction: any journey is pleasant to me. But a journey by boat is more pleasant. I like this journey very much. I become thrilled at the prospects of such journey. Anyway, I want to make such journey. However, I got a chance making a journey by boat at moon lit night. It was more thrilling and pleasant.