Linda Sue Park

The author Linda Sue Park wrote this novel called A Long Walk To Water. She created this novel based on one of many lost boys, but focused on one out of all of them which was named Salva Dut Arilk. The second sudanese civil war broke out and caused lives in the 1980’s. After the war had came to his village he had been forced to survive on his own. The three most important survival factors that Salva needed to demonstrate along his journey are Perseverance, Hope, and Obedience. To begin with the

A young eleven-year-old boy named Salva finds himself in a difficult situation during the Sudanese Civil war in 1985. To keep surviving he must continue traveling to safe places by foot. In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, a young boy named Salva lived in South Sudan where there was a war called the Sudanese civil war in 1985. He walked distances to camps to find a safe place to survive. Salva survives during the war. He faced some difficult challenges such as walking, hotness, and

Perseverance A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park is a dual narrative about a civil war in Sudan between the Nuer and Dinka Tribes. It shows the hardships that a child from both tribes live their every day. Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to succeeding when they gave up”. This quote reminds me of the hardships Salva faces.Though he faces many hardships he doesn’t stop. Like when in the desert and Salva broke his toenail off

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. People need water to survive in challenges. In Nya’s village located in Southern Sudan during

A Long Walk To Water Theme 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. In the book, Nya and Salva are both walking towards their goals. Nya has to walk to a big,

and sincere. Consequently, someone can rely on the support of one who they trust when they have hardships, which can signify a valuable relationship and help a person overcome an obstacle. During the whole of the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park and Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech, the characters Nya, Salva, John and Martha undergo multiple obstructions that challenge their ability to overcome obstacles with the little resources

In the novel “A long walk to water” by Linda Sue Park, Salva, a young man that lived in South Sudan throughout his childhood to his young-adult years, had faced many difficult challenges the young age of eleven. Salva had to flee from home because of Sudan’s civil war. He soon experienced a horrifying and dreadful life, his family gone, no resources in his group, he watched people die, walked for months, and lead twelve hundred boys to a refugee camp in Kenya. Salva survived this terrible life with

Compare and Contrast Essay By: Finn Schafer. The story Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park shows the struggle of how the war in South Sudan affects its people, limiting resources and having to walk for survival. The poem “Silence” by an unknown author tells the story of someone walking and comparing how different life is in first world countries. The theme of both texts is in the face of obstacles, maintain perseverance in order to overcome them. In both texts the narrators describe the land barren

In A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park tells a story about one out of a thousand Southern Sudan lost boys named, Salva. Salva is a boy who ran away during the Southern Sudanese War. Salva moves from country to country to get away from this war. During the war he loses touch of his family. Salva soon escapes the war, now he’s trying to find his way to safety. Salva was able to survive In A Long Walk to Water, by having bravery, courage, and showing grit. Salva shows bravely In A Long Walk to

These three things could help you through many different challenges in life, Hope, Family, and Persistence. A Long Walk to Water is a story by Linda Sue Park, about a kid (Salva Dut) trying to escape the war (Sudan’s Civil War) he used these three things Family, Hope, and Persistence to get to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Individuals can survive crazy situations with Hope, Family, and Persistence. These characteristics come into play when Salva ran into a bush to escape war in Sudan. How family