Simulta's Story: A Walk In The Water

The book A long walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is about an eleven year old boy named Salva. First in the beginning of the story he is going to school when out of no where his school is in the middle of a war zone, his teacher tells him to run for the bushes but he keeps running until he could run no more. Then he meets some other people that had also ran away from the war, they had broken of into groups separating the men from the women and children, Salva was put with the children. They kept walking until they came across a barn in which they spent the night, when Salva awoke in the morning he was the only one there, the group had left him. He walked outside of the barn and found a lady rocking on a chair, she gives him some peanuts to eat

As I jump off the pontoon, I feel the freezing water surround my body. I'll slip on the boots of the skis and grab the handlebar. Releasing my grip, I put one thumb up into the wind to signal I’m ready to go. Suddenly there is a tug on the rope, and I’m being dragged through the water. Pressing the skis against the cold water, I can finally stand up above the waves. The boat pulls me around the bend of the lake, and the view of all the enormous cabins is thrilling. The seniors on the campground beach will clap and stand up from their Adirondack chairs to wave or whistle. As my legs begin to feel tired, I wave one last time and let go of the handlebar. I can feel my body quickly sink down into the water; the life jacket on my chest will be

Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk To Water because in the book a eleven year old boy needs to travel through hardships without his family to survive. Salva needed to keep trying in order to survive and hopefully one day find his family. When the group was crossing the Akobo Desert (on page 53), Salva’s uncle pointed at landmarks for him to walk to so then he wouldn’t give up. Another part where Salva needed to persevere was when he was in the Ifo camp. Many people flooded into the water being pushed in by soldiers. Many people died trying to cross because they were either being shot, drowned, or was attacked by crocodile. But Salva persevered and kept trying to cross even though he almost drowned.

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.

The book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park shows us that perseverance is the key to success and not to give up.

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

Survival is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water because both Salva and Nya had to survive in their own ways in their hard times. The first example is when Salva and his school mates heard the gunshot and ran into the bush to survive. This is an example of survival because Salva did not know if he should go into the bush to be safe or if he should go back into danger just to go home to his family. Once he was in the bush, he thought he would be all alone until he heard his village’s name being called. Another example is when Salva is having thoughts about how he will survive. “Salva stumbled back into the barn. What will I do, where will I go?”(p.19) In this statement, Salva is wondering how he will survive after the group of women and

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.

Have you ever gone to a sleepover or camp where you went a couple days without your family? Imagine not seeing your family for months, or years, or ever. Imagine if you didn’t even know if your parents were alive. This is a similar situation that Salva, a young boy in A Long Walk to Water, has to go through. Salva isn’t only separated from family forever, but he has to journey through Africa with little food and water, specifically food. Luckily for Salva, he finds his Uncle, Jewiir. He joins the group that Salva traveled in, and marked himself as a leader to the others. While learning about the journeys of both characters, many traits are exhibited. However, after careful analysis of the two, Salva’s hunger is the most prominent

I lethargically began to move the oars across the glass of waters of Coleman Lake. The 12ft emerald row boat glides on top of the surface making its way to the opposite side of the lake. I continue rowing observing the breath taking views of this pristine lake, I swivel my head around and focus on these rustic cabins that are scattered around the lake, holding decades of memories with them as they start to sag towards me. I prop my oars up and reach around for the

Although some people may think hope was not an important factor during the Holocaust, hope was an important factor and a powerful force during the Holocaust, because hope helped to make people believe there was still a chance of survival and hope always helped during the worst situations. During the time of World War II, many of the prisoners of war had been through alot and some had given up on survival. But for tons of them, hope helped them to persevere through their toughest obstacles for survival and sometimes gave them life-changing miracles.

Search for Wealth “All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘you can’t live forever; you can’t live forever” (36). In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, universally different characters are perpetually trying to move up the social ladder of hierarchy; tearing one another down, as another impermanently moves up. As the search for wealth and power continues, people are forced to choose social status over morals. The Great Gatsby takes place in the summer of the year 1922, a time of parties and prosperity, a time notoriously known as the jazz age, or the roaring twenties.

The great Christian writer Tertullian was born in Roman controlled Carthage, now known better as Tunisia. Around 200 AD he famously wrote De spectaculis, a work outlining the failing of the Roman moral system based around the gladiatorial games and the circus. Tertullian received a good education growing up and partook in “pagan” rituals such as sexual intercourse and observing the gladiatorial games. However, when the Roman Empire began executing Christians he felt compelled to become a Christian himself. Tertullian outlined clearly in his essay that the failing of the games lay in idolatry, and in the belief that ‘Thou shall not kill’. He writes this essay to compel all Christians to give up the games in order to gain favour in the eyes

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.

July 5th 2016 was a very hot and very sunny day, it felt as if my skin was being cooked. My family and I went on the boat and hung out by the sand bar all morning. It’s mixed emotions being on the tube, considering the boat is going about 35 MPH, I’m on a tube in the wavy lake, connected by a rope to the boat. It’s hard to focus on one emotion. I’m excited and terrified all in one. Although we picture lake time always being a great time, that July day was not a great time. I remember feeling as if our bodies were giving in to the sun so we decided to call it a day around 2 PM. We approached the pier to pull the boat in. Our dock is a parking space in water surrounded by a wooden pier on the sides and the front. To prevent the boat hitting from the sides, my brothers, my mom, and I will grab the sides of the pier as my dad steers it.