Book Review: A Long Walk To Water

He becomes friends with one of the boys in the group called Marial, when they keep walking Salva comes across his uncle. His uncle said he would protect them at all costs with his gun, but one night Marial had gone missing, so Salva's uncle had told him that he was eaten by a lion. When they made it to the Nile river they made boats and went to an island in the middle where they spent the night and were attacked by mosquitoes, the next day they got as much water as they could and kept walking until they found nine men lying on the ground. One of the women in the group tried giving his water to one of the men, the men that could still walk came with the group, when one night the group was robber by three solders and Salva's uncle was shot and killed, but they continues to walked until they arrived at the camp where Salva spent the next six years of his life. After six years the camp was attacked by solder and people were forced to cross the river where thousands died, Salva was then the leader of fifteen hundred boys, where they were lead to

Linda Sue Park’s novel A long walk to water is about the lost boys of Sudan, Salva ,a real lost boy, Nya, a fictional character as they go through tough times. In the story Nya and Salva have very tough times like Salva and the Akoba desert and the Gilo river, Nya and go to get water every single day.They learn to face their challenges and get through it all.

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.

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 true story that shows two sides, each having an important message. Even in rough times in a troubled county, survivors may find the future they were looking for. In Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water, Salva Dut and Nya faced many difficulties, Salva had to face the loss of his parents, and the rest of his family, and learning to become a leader, and as for Nya she had no pure drinking water.

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

Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk To Water is about the story of Salva, he is one of thousands of boys trying to escape the civil war going in their country in the 1980’s also known as The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys had to travel country to country to escape the horrible Second Sudanese Civil war. Salva survived despite starving, dying of dehydration, getting shot, forced into the war, be eaten alive by lions or crocodiles, or going insane from fear because of his persistence, luck, and the people who helped him.

Salva in “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park is in many problematic situations due to the circumstances he lives in. Salva travels through rivers, deserts, and even walks barefoot to live. Nya another character in “A Long Walk To Water” faces similar struggles to collect water and she also helps with her family. Like both Salva and Nya Billie Jo has to go through the horrific dust storm. In the texts Salva and Billie Jo both lose their beloved ones.

He should drink only good purified water.If the water is dirty, you should boil it for a count of two hundred before she drinks it.¨(page 45)Nyas sister faces death right into his face by drinking unclean water. Their family was lucky there was a medic near by. The nurse gave some advice to avoid getting sever sick or near death again. If they haven't went or went later, Nya would've lost his sister. After building the well in chapter 17, now in 18 the well dries.Salva has helped the other people get purified water and now Salva decided to help the Nuer. “He drilled many wells for his own people. This year he decided to drill for the Nuer as well.”(Page 115) Slava has helped many people in the past from building wells. He started to help the Neur by making a well.If Salva hadn't Nya would've been forced to keep walking eight hours to the pond and back every

Water is used in “Children of the Sea” as a method of escape for Haitians. The story consists of letters by two people written to each other that they can not actually send. In the beginning of the story, Danticat writes “I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don’t matter to anyone but themselves,” (3). This part of the male character’s letter alludes to the fact that his story of trying to escape Haiti and the struggles that come with that is not just

Water is a central issue in both Salva and Nya's narrative because both of them didn't have access to clean water. For example, Salva traveled through the wilderness and deserts, he couldn't find water easily in the wilderness or deserts. But the water is the basic need of a human to survive. Also, Nya had to walk eight hours a day to fetch contaminated water in raining season, in dry season, Nya had to fetch muddy water from the lake bed. And that is why water is a theme/central issue in Nya and Salva’s narrative.

Water is something that is seen as solely necessary for human beings to stay hydrated, but the novels being mentioned in this paper describe water as being something more. Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall, Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat and Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain all depict water as being something that helps with liberation, recovery and new life.

Slava is in sudan and he is having a bad time and he needs water this is what he needs

Water is a necessity for life. Beloved’s rebirth holds the entire meaning of life within water. “A fully dressed woman walked out of the water (50)”. Although Beloved was murdered she continues to live

When Latika is introduced to Jamal and Salim, the audience is shown an image of her, standing in the rain, all alone. The use of water in that scene seems to be a symbolic reawakening of sorts, and in that reawakening, the viewer is shown the harshness and severeness of these children’s situation. There’s no pity, or a simple discarding of their issues. Jamal, Latika, and Salim all have to fight for their lives, for their freedom, and more importantly to achieve their one true destiny, which in the end, varies vastly in the final act of the film.