Book Review: A Long Walk To Water

The book I choose for my summer reading was, Blink Once by Cylin Busby. I choose this book because I read the first page and it kept my attention and I knew I needed to read the rest of the book. I did and it turned out to be a wonderful book with a nice twist.

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.

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.

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

A walk to remember is a novel about a young boy who goes on a journey through his whole life learning about compassion, truth, respect for elders and the meaning of love starting from a young boy to when he is more mature to understand what he went through when he was younger. Landon was a very mixed personality, he was a little bit of a bully at school, but at home, he was very polite to his parents so he was indecisive about his true personallity development. It shows us that Landon has mentally changed from knowing Jamie and that she was a major part of his life. In A walk to remember Landon is a gentleman to his girlfriend Jamie, Landon is selfless he doesn't take anything for granted, and he is very polite to his parents and fellow elders about the truth and respects their boundaries.

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.

Tales Of The Survivors The definition of survival is; “The state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal or difficult circumstances.” My definition of survival is; to overcome something. “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park was a book mostly about survival. In this book, both Nya and Salva are trying to survive.

A Long Walk to Water is a novel by Linda Sue Park, a true story of a young boy named Salva in war-torn Southern Sudan who survived despite all odds and the inconceivable challenges he encountered. Park shined light on the innumerable obstacles he faced as a Lost Boy. The Lost Boys are the thousands of young men who dared to make the journey to safety and refuge in Ethiopia by foot. Salva, only eleven years old when the war began in 1983 between the Muslim Arab north and the non-Muslim and non-Arab south, had to survive the rigorous environment. Survival factors like determination and will, motivation, persistence, and endurance made it possible to get through the many challenges.

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

In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva realizes that perseverance is key when facing life’s challenges.

“He heard them laughing. As Salva watched, one of the men aimed his gun at Uncle. Three shots rang out. Then the men ran away.”(Park 63) This is just one of the many things that happened to Salva Dut on his journey and something that helps us learn about personal journeys. In the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Park, Salva’s journey starts when he was forced out of his homeland in Sudan when he was only 11 and had to walk for 11 years through southern Sudan, into Ethiopia, and then to Kenya until he finally gets some relief. Throughout his travels he goes through harsh terrain and cruel moments. We can learn about personal journeys from the progress of Salva’s journey because he showed us that they can be very emotional, they can be spiritually

The book, “A long Walk to Water,” has made me apprehend on all of those problems that are occurring in the world, particularly in Africa. The struggle of their lifestyles, which is so much more distinct from ours, has made me realize how fortunate I am to be living where I am, and how safe I am. Their oppositions with war, have split their country apart and has separated millions of lives throughout their country. But just the fact that the book is a true story, just moves me. The time periods of both Salva and Nya are remarkable, and how their struggle has still lasted during all of those years; furthermore, every day is another day of work and survival.

true tale of Salva as he runs away from Sudan in search for a safe place. He has to

In the story, On the Rainy River, by Tim O’Brien, the journey along the Rainy River defined the narrator’s moral strength at a time of internal conflict. He hoped to be brave enough to defy societal expectations by not fighting in the Vietnam War because he believed that the war was wrong. He travelled to the Rainy River to leave America but could not do because of his fear of embarrassment. Nevertheless, the narrator’s journey to the Rainy River was beneficial because it allowed him to reflect upon his convictions clearly and realize his values that were not understood before.

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.