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Salva the Survivor Imagine walking your entire life and staying in refugee camps in Eastern Africa until your mid twenties. In A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park, Salva does just that and survives everything that was thrown at him, to get to safety. Salva is a survivor because of his ability to overcome challenges such as mother nature, the loss of family, and being lost. Salva survived even when some of the hardest challenges he faced on his journey came from mother nature

Throughout A Long Walk to Water, Salva goes through many struggles and hardships. Perseverance and hope were some things that helped Salva survive through them. Salva always had hope that his family was out there somewhere throughout the years he was separated from them. His hope was one of the things that kept him going throughout his hardest times. Salva also had many moments of perseverance. Moreover, Salva’s journey through the Akobo desert is a superb example of Salva’s perseverance. Salva had

In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva showed that in tough times he had to overcome challenges without losing hope. When Salva had problems, or he thought that the events that were occurring weren't going as well, he stayed hopeful it would all work out. “Weeks passed, then months. One day a notice was posted at the camp's administration tent. It was a list of names, but not Salva’s. If your name was on the list, it meant that you might have a chance to go to America,” (Park, 88). Salva

Perseverance The short story By the Waters of Babylon written by Stephan Benét has three main points that relate to the theme of perseverance; when Jon disobeys the rules, he decides to cross the river and discovers that the east should not be forbidden. Jon starts to head east, and express his dilemma when he states “My heart was troubled about going east, yet I knew that I must go.” (Benet 85). Going east is forbidden and you are punished if you go to the there. But Jon must follow his gut feeling

Survival- A Long Walk to Water essay Survival is a big overall theme for A Long Walk to Water. The first example is that while Salva goes across the Akobo desert him and the group must survive the treacherous walk with very little food and water. “No one in the group has eaten anything in two days. Their water is nearly gone.”(Page 61) This means that the group is starving and is very dehydrated because of the heat of the desert and people may not survive. Salva also must survive with no toenail

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

Zitlali Avalos Sunday P. Obazuaye POL 101: American Political Institutions 5 August 2016 Representative Report My name is Zitlali, I am 20 years old, and I am going to be a third year college student at Cal State University, Fullerton this fall. I will be the second person in my family to graduate from college. I am thankful for the support and unconditional love that my family has given me, because without them I would not have made it this far. They have shaped me into the person that

Imagine running not knowing where you're going but just away from the war when your only 11, this is what happened to Salva. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water which is a true story about salva and how he had a huge trek running away from the war. He lives in Southern Sudan and has a wealthy family. He is part of the Dinka tribe which is a rival with the Nuer tribe. The factors that were helpful for the survival of Salva in a harsh environment were how he is self-reliance

A boy named salva Nine men collapsed on the sand one made a small desperate motion, another tried to raise his hand but fell back down. Five men lost to the desert that day, but Salva a young boy in Linda Sue Park's book A Long Walk To Water, never lost the fight. Salva age of only eleven, was a happy child. One afternoon at school Salva was not paying much attention to the teacher because he already knew the country's national language. Until he heard loud pops and men shouting. Shortly after

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