Walking On Water Summary

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he is fed for a lifetime. In today’s society, education is very similar to this statement. Schools are commanded to teach aspects of life that only benefit the student for an end-of-the-year test. Students are not taught what is to come in the life after school. Because of the poor quality in education today, the emphasis on standardized test has become overwhelming.

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

In today’s society, education has shifted the way in how one thinks, making a basis were they acquire everyone in a classroom to grasp the knowledge being presented to them at the same pace. Those that are unsuccessful to comprehend in the way that was instructed to them are viewed upon as the most needed and deficient. Having a structured way in how one should apprehend certain information, sets barriers in the process of thinking. It prevents the mind to think of other solutions, and to stick to the certain idea.

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.

Education at its best is a process of teaching people to explore ideas about themselves and the world in which they live, to ask questions about the experience called “living” and to embrace ambiguity, to notice the unusual without fear and to look upon the ordinary with new eyes.

In this article ''Dancing in The Water'' the writer claims that the underwater rendition had an massive quantity of challenges. Few methods of clothing do less to propose the elegance and beauty of dance than scuba outfit. With their weighty tanks of pressed air, hoses, gauges, wetsuits, fins, and masks, a group of dancers seemed more like spacemen than ballerinas. Nevertheless this is what they wore during a performance in Greece in September 2015. The 14 dancers wearing in scuba gear for an underwater rendition that had particularly consists music. The dancers performed while submerged to a depth of about 16 feet (5 meters) in Cape Sounion, which is southeast of Athens. Forty more people were able to see the presentation as they swam, while

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

Yet even with these realizations that delve into the deeper meaning of education, modern education is still calling for simple measurable outcomes and continues to be geared towards specific employment ideas. This model of education is blatantly inadequate though. Many students today will end up holding jobs not yet invented in fields not yet discovered, so the teaching of answers to today’s questions is utterly useless. Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” and this statement reigns true throughout time. To continue academic success, the education system needs to impart a mastery of one’s own mind that allows students to not only answer current questions but also to pose questions that will shape the future world.

In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, there are two stories that converge. Salva is a boy from the Dinka tribe that is trying to run from the Sudan Civil War. Nya is a girl that must collect water for her family every day, so they can survive. One good theme that appears in A Long Walk to Water is to keep moving forward toward your goal even when things get rough.

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

The tone of the excerpt A Long Walk To Water written by Linda Sue Park is exhausted. On page 52, it says that it was the longest day of Salva’s life. Then it says, “Each minute walking in the arid heat felt like an hour.” If you don't understand why this is so exhausting is because you might not know what Salva has been through. There was a war in his village, and he had to run away from it. He lost his family and has little source of food and water. The only source of water provided are ponds and the only source of food is 1 bag of peanuts they were given in the beginning. This shows that he is exhausted because he is only a child that has to walk somewhere and he doesn't even know where he is going. He doesn't have any family to be with him.

"A Long Walk To Water" by Linda Sue Park shows that even though Salva left his family because of war he still moved on. Salva is 11 years old and he is a Dinka. When rebels attacked his school he ran into the bush, leavening his family behind. After that, Salva joined many groups of people walking to Ethiopia. Later, Salva met a new friend and also learned that his uncle was part of the group but, both of them died, Salva's friend waso eaten by a lion, and his uncle was shot, and killed. Salva later arrived at a refuge camp but everyone was forced to leave. After years of moving from camp to camp, Salva was given a chance to go to America but, after a few years of being there he learned that his dad was still alive but was sick from drinking

This “flawed” concept in education today is the oppressive “depositing” of information (banking education) by teachers to students. “Banking education (for obvious reasons) attempts, by mythicizing reality, to conceal certain facts which explain the way people exist in the world…” (p.224) The “banking concept” is an act that hinders the intellectual growth of students by turning them into “receptors” and “collectors” of information that have no true connection to their lives. The “banking concept” is essentially turning humans into objects. “Banking education inhibits creativity and domesticates (although it cannot completely destroy) the intentionality of consciousness by isolating consciousness from the world, thereby denying people their ontological and historical vocation of becoming more fully human.” (p.224) This type of education

A Long Walk to Water is a true story written by Linda Sue Park. She describes to us the journey that a young boy, Salva Dut, is forced on due to the Sudanese Civil War. Throughout his journey, the reader is exposed to many life lessons. Three of these lessons, which are themes throughout the book, are: family can provide support through times of hardship, nature poses many threats to our survival, and access to water can be the difference between life and death.

In the recent times, one of the hottest topic concerning education has been the standardizing of the curriculum. Standardized curriculum chiefly limits a student’s ability to acquire a higher level of knowledge, since it delivers average education to every student. In the article by Taylor Gatto, he discusses how the school has become a way of producing average individuals. In the article, the author quotes a passage from The American Mercury which states, “The aim… is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality” (Gatto pg). I believe, for students to truly learn, they must be challenged through their education in some way. For example,