Character Analysis: A Wizard Of Earthsea

In the book “A long walk to water” authored by linda sue park,salva has to go on a personal journey to survive and it impacted him majorly. What is a personal journey? One might ask. Well a personal journey is when someone or something goes on a journey and on their journey they go along and meet allies and friends,they have struggles or obstacles,and they change (mostly in a good way) throughout the story.One lesson this story suggests is that “Sometimes the pain and struggles that you encounter will help you succeed”. In the story “A long walk to water”. Salva went on a personal journey and it impacted him drastically. He had to get away from the war in sudan and he met many people that helped him, he had many conflicts and struggles,and he even witnessed his uncle passing away. But when things were at his worst he found a miracle.

*One of the themes of “The Glass Castle” is that, although you might have a horrible and hard childhood, it doesn’t mean you’ll stay that way. Jeannette had gone through so many things, but because she tried her very best to get out of her struggle she now succeeds in life.

In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, We meet Nya and Salva and we learn that Nya is walking for water. Then we learn that Salva is running away from the war between nuer and dinka Salva keeps on running until he runs into some rebels Salva saw that he wasn’t the only one who ran into the rebels he tried to find his family but there was no luck. Then the rebels took all the men salva was left alone again and he started to run again he ran found another group he passed out and found his uncle. Then Salva still was running he got to a refugee camp he signed up to go to america but it was no luck he practice english and when he was done he was about to learn volley ball but people said that Salva gets to go to new york. Then he

Everyone that has ever lived has a past. We all know this. Whether if it was filled with drug addiction, alcoholism, or abuse. Or if it was filled with supporting families, prosperous parents, or a happy childhood. Our outlook onto the world is most typically formed on what we have experienced in the past. But we cannot let this define us. In the glass castle, there are many examples of how a person’s childhood or past does not define who they become in the future.

Nine men collapsed on the sand one made a small desperate motion, another tried to raise his hand but fell back down. Five men lost to the desert that day, but Salva a young boy in Linda Sue Park's book A Long Walk To Water, never lost the fight.

Fantasy appeals to us, to put it crudely, because of the relationship between magic and morality. An alternate world filled with strange and wonderful things, a world defined by imagination, gives us a setting in which to lose ourselves within. J.K. Rowling has done this and has captured the minds and hearts of readers all around the world with her bestselling series “Harry Potter”. As we engage in the engrossing narrative following Harry Potter and his friends, some may be able to relate to the lives of such characters. J.K. Rowling takes an undeniably riveting approach to showcasing the round characterizations throughout her novel "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" to such a degree that the reader can personally identify with such characters.

In the memoir, The Class Castle, by Jeanette Walls, themes of unconditional love and loyalty is explored. It is the story of author Walls’ coming-of-age experience, and her relationship with her charismatic yet alcoholic father and her artistic mother who constantly neglects her children. Throughout the years, the family of six repeatedly crumbles apart, then finds a way to come together again and again. All her life, Jeanette’s father had promised to build her a glass castle, which was never completed, or even started. The symbolism of the Glass Castle as the the family’s dream evolves as the author matures, inspiring us with the never ending loyalty between father and daughter.

In A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva shows that when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

In 1985, Sudan was in the middle of a civil war. The civil war started because the Northern Sudan wanted the Southern Sudan, largely a non-Muslim country, to give up their own religion and custom and become Muslims. Not wanting to give up their custom, the Dinka, Nuer, and other ethnic group from Southern Sudan joined forces and fought with the Northern Sudan. During the war many people fled their hometown and went to refugee camps in other countries, Ethiopia and later Kenya. One of these people is called Salva Dut and his story was written in a novel called, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. The novel writes Salva’s many difficult circumstances that he has experience because of the war in Sudan. Having to walk to Akobo Desert to go

The House of Sand and Fog is a tragedy about a homeownership battle between a young woman and an Iranian immigrant family, that ultimately leads to the death of four people. Throughout the tragedy, there are a plethora of emotions which are undoubtedly felt: including anger, fear, and pity. There is anger towards the Iranian family who seems to steal away the life of the young woman that we feel pity for. Why do people always seem to connect so strongly with the characters in a tragedy? Aristotle and Nussbaum talk about those connections and how those emotions are the core elements of any tragedy.

A lot of people these days don't have access to clean water, and we were reading a book called A Long Walk To Water in our class. In the text they talked a lot about one main character called Salva and his adventure from South Sudan to America. In the text Salva did a lot of things that made him like a hero. There are a lot of reasons of what makes him a hero. But there is three critical reasons for me on what made him a hero or what makes a hero.

The Last Kingdom, written by Bernard Cornwell, is a novel following a young Anglo-Saxon boy named Uhtred through his journey of growing up as a dane after being taken in a battle. When Uhtred is seven years old Danes come to where he lives,Bebbanburg, and kill his brother. Since he is next in line to own and rule Bebbanburg, his father takes him into battle against the danes. However, when Uhtred sees the man that killed his brother, he charges into battle and meets someone that would shape him into being the man he will become. After his father is killed in the battle, the man who killed his brothers takes him back and raises him as a son due to his courageous behaviors at the battle. The influence the Danish culture had on Uhtred at such a young age is more than prevalent through his actions and thoughts in the book. Although he was born and Anglo-Saxon, Uhtred displays traits of a Dane.

People grow both mentally and physically in their lifetimes; however, the unique ways in which people grow and develop create the wonder of diverse human life. Paulo Coelho contradicts this idea in his novel The Alchemist when he states, “And my heart and soul is your heart and soul” (IX). This underlines Coelho’s whole idea all of humanity’s stories are the same. Coelho shares this idea as he attempts to describe what he believes this shared story is through a boy named Santiago. However, while the humanity and Santiago may share the same goals, the way that Santiago achieves them is unrealistic compared to most of society. Santiago begins innocent and unknowledgeable of the world, and goes out on a mission to find his Personal Legend.

But what makes him so special. He has many defining character traits that makes him a hero.

In the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling Harry starts of in the unfamiliar wizarding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After lord Voldemort killed Harry’s parents he is sent of to his aunt and uncle's house as a baby. Harry does not like living with them but eventually at age 12 he gets a letter to attend hogwarts which he will soon find out that he is a wizard. After being sorted into one of the four houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, ravenclaw and slytherin)he gets sorted into gryffindor and finds friends in his house(Ron and Hermione). They have to stick together and work together to defeat him. This leads to one of the themes for this book series being that “You are much stronger when with friends”.