Themes In A Long Walk To Water

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.

In a long walk to water by Linda sue park, the book shows what life was like for Nya, an eleven year old Nuer girl in Sudan, and the struggles that she faced. First Nya was carrying a jug to get water then, she came back. She explained how far she has to walk each day just to get water. After that, Nya's sister, Akeer gets sick and her family makes the choice that she must be taken to a doctor. As a result of Akeer going to the doctor, she ends up getting better. Akeers problem was that the water wasn't clean enough. Soon thereafter, visitors come to Nya's village and talk of water. The visitors turn out to be workers and plan to dig and find clean water for the village. Eventually, after a year of hard work the workers see new water

Suffering is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water because not only does Salva suffer, but other’s as well.The first example of suffering is when Mariel, Salva’s friend,has been eaten by a lion. What happens is that Salva’s Uncle had been reunited with Salva, but then at night Uncle had told Salva to sleep so he did it, but when he was sleeping,Mariel had gotten eaten by a lion.So Mariel suffers the death while Salva is suffering with sadness that his friend died. The second example of suffering is when Salva is walking to the Ethiopian, and his toenail break’s off while walking the hot desert with less food and less water. “ Salva and his group of boys had walked for a year and half” It shows

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.

Have you ever read long walk to water, well you should it's a good book. What obstacles did Nya face. What obstacles did Salva face. What did Nya and Salva face together. Nya and Salva overcame obstacles in A Long Walk To Water.

Linda Sue Park´s novel, A Long Walk to Water tells about the stories of Nya and Salva. Salva´s character is a young boy who survives the Second Sudanese Civil War by running away from war. Nya is a character that symbolizes all of the women in Southern Sudan who have to walk miles for dirty unclean water. Individuals survive challenging environments in this novel with water, encouragement, and family.

In A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park a boy named Salva has to survive the impossible challenges put in front of him. Salva is very persistent in ways the reader would have never expected.

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.

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 one of our characters are leaders that have to go through very dangerous things on his journeys. One of the main themes in this book is dangerous situations make people leaders. Salva and Uncle Jewiir both end up being leaders somewhere in the book, but I think that Uncle Jewiir becoming the leader is more important. One page thirty four Uncle Jewiir came to Salva’s group to help get everyone safely to the refugee camp. Uncle became the leader because he had been working in the army so he was able to take his gun with him, so he can shoot food for everyone in the group. Uncle Jewiir was a very good leader and he always tried motivating everyone to keep going and get to the final detonation

The world view of the Navajo who had lived for many centuries on the high Colorado Plateau was one of living in balance with all of nature, as the stewards of their vast homeland which covered parts of four modern states. They had no concept of religion as being something separate from living day to day and prayed to many spirits. It was also a matriarchal society and had no single powerful leader as their pastoral lifestyle living in scattered independent family groups require no such entity. This brought them repeatedly into conflict with Spanish, Mexicans and increasingly by the mid-nineteenth century, Americans as these practices were contrary to their male dominated religiously monolithic societal values. The long standing history

Walking for eight hours to get water that's not even clean isn't easy. “Nya” had to do walk everyday.“Nya’s” journey means both literally and symbolically and what she went through.

Is it possible for a person, who used to murder people without any hesitates, to change and become a good person? Yes, it possible and Walk on Water film is a great example. Walk on Water is an Israeli film released in 2004. It was written by Gal Uchovsky and directed by Eytan Fox (Hagin, Boaz). This film won a couple of awards for its unique plot and for having different great themes.

In the three poems “The Wife’s Lament”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Seafarer” from The Exeter Book, it’s clear that travel and exile are recurring and important themes. Is there a possibility that these themes and elements have a significance that goes above and beyond their literal meaning? Though they may experience it differently, all three of the speakers from these poems in The Exeter Book deal with the great pain of exile, or being driven out, resulting in the need or desire for travel. This takes place due to the fact exile was one of the most tragic fates that an anglo-saxon man or woman could endure at the time. It makes sense that these themes would play a huge part in these poems because during this time period, exile was the