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    In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva is a non-fictional character that almost died just so he can find his family. He went through many struggles but overcame them in order to survive because of the desire to see his family, leadership, and hard work. The first survival factor that helped him overcome his struggles was the desire to see his family. In the novel the desire helps Salva because his family has been separated from him, so the desire to find his family

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    When kids make worthy decisions and persevere at the beginning of their lives, they will live satisfactory lives as adults. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva walks lengthy distances to survive in a place where water is always scarce. Salva’s father needs clean water to survive a severe disease. Water is always crucial for Salva so he starts an organization to obtain water for the people of his hometown because he doesn’t want the future generation of his country to face water scarcity

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    Imagine you are a lost boy of Sudan, and you are trying to escape the war. While doing this you go through many challenges, that you have to overcome to keep on going. In the book Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, it is based on a real story about a Dinka boy named Salva. In the book, Salva is trying to flee from the war. While doing that he comes to many challenges. He overcame these to keep on going through all the journey. Later he gets to a camp, after a while there he gets chosen to go the

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    In the book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salvas home country is in the middle of the civil war and it reaches his village, he must flee and leave his family at only 11 years old. Now he must walk with the other Dinka tribe members through Ethiopia, southern Sudan, and Kenya in search of somewhere safe to stay. They face many hardships such as trying to find food and water to supply a whole tribe everyday. And also walking through the burning hot desert day after day. Perseverance is

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    In the novel, A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park, one of the main protagonists, named Salva, is greatly influenced by his family throughout his journey across many countries to refugee camps. While trekking across many dangerous landscapes such as blazing deserts and crocodile-infested waters, Salva was constantly encouraged by the longing to be able to see his family again. Without his family, Salva’s whole life would have turned out differently and he may possibly not exist anymore

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    The novel, A Long Walk to Water is a written by Linda Sue Park, where it tells the story of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” who are refugees who have fled from their villages during the Second Sudanese Civil War, whereas in the 1980s. Each boy trekked immense walks and anguished for survival, where the danger lurked from the power of nature and men and man-made weapons meanced with danger. But the main character of the story, Salva Dut, was one of those “Lost Boys.” He is based on a real-person, and have

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    E L A Final Draft End of Unit 2 Assesment What factors made survival possible for Salva in “A Long Walk to Water” Salva the main character of “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park was an 11-year old boy when his village was attacked. His teacher urged him to run away from the village and to run to the “bush.” After that attack, his life made a turn for the worse. With no family around him, he was completely lost. During

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    “The lost boys. That was what they were being called in America the boys who had lost their homes and families because of the war and had wandered, lost, for weeks or months at a time before reaching the refugee camps”(91). Linda Sue Park wrote a novel based on one of these boys called “A long walk to water.” Salva Dut was a boy alone in Sudan and becomes a survivor by also becoming a leader, adapting to situations, and overcoming dangerous obstacles. Salva was a “lost boy” in a big world that had

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    Linda Sue Park wrote the novel, ”A Long Walk to Water” in 2010. This story is based on a true event, This event is about two young adults and stories are interwoven but it is in the middle of Sudan. Salva is in the middle of a sudanese war in the 1980’s and Nya is set in current day. In Sudan both young adults have to survive in harsh conditions like war, disease, lack of purified water and high temperatures. The characters in the novel,”Long Walk to Water” survive their challenging environments

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    Do you think you could survive traveling between Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia on foot? Salva, one of the the main characters in A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park has to do this, along with staying in dangerous areas, losing his family for a very, very long time, and come out alive. He is able to escape these challenges because of the things he does to survive the long journey he is forced to embark upon. One of these things is hard work, another is the relationships he forms along the way

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