Linda Tripp

The story “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park, took place in the years 1985 to 2009. A theme that comes up in the story is survival. In the story, Salva is one of the characters that faces the theme. Many things helped him survive, but the most important factor in his survival is his uncle. Linda Sue Park shows that Salva survived because of the help his uncle gave him along the way, he survived with the help the lady he called auntie offered him when she gave him shelter in the barn and helped

Not knowing how they would survive, Salva walked with his group counting every step he took. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk To Water, which describes how Salva had to struggle to live through a harsh war. The factors that were helpful for the survival of Salva in a harsh environment are knowledge, stress, and his uncle. Throughout the novel Salva challenged himself to survive through heat and hunger. During war, Salvas tribe ran everywhere into the bush. Salva’s group

Big Ideas: • Students will read A Long Walk to Water, analyzing the points of view of the central characters, Salva and Nya. • Students focus on one key theme: how individuals survive in challenging environments. • A Long Walk to Water is paired with complex informational texts on Sudan. • Students explore the experiences of people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War. Essential questions: • How do individuals survive in challenging environments? • How do culture,

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

In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, We meet Nya and Salva and we learn that Nya is walking for water. Then we learn that Salva is running away from the war between nuer and dinka Salva keeps on running until he runs into some rebels Salva saw that he wasn’t the only one who ran into the rebels he tried to find his family but there was no luck. Then the rebels took all the men salva was left alone again and he started to run again he ran found another group he passed out and found

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

Just when you believe that Salva couldn’t survive one difficult challenge, he is faced with another one, and endures it with more strength and courage than the last one. The author of the novel, A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park, unravels the story of Salva Dut, a “Lost Boy”, and his incredible capability to survive one hardship, after another. At 11 years, old, he escapes from his war-torn village with a mission to find his family and make a difference. He did not do it alone; several factors

Salva Dut was forced to become an adult incredibly quickly under very horrible circumstances. Throughout the novel, the reader can be shown the dangerous struggles such as food, health, safety and survival Salva had to accomplish as he got older. The minute Salva ran towards the bushes he entered a world of he did not know. He was separated from his family never to see them till many years later. Although there is little parental guidance throughout the middle of his painful desert voyage, his uncle

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

Imagine walking through Africa. It is hot and there is limited food and water. The sun's beating down onto your face and your legs want to give up. In Salvas time period there is war in Sudan and Salva gets caught in the middle of it. Nyas village needs more clean water to survive. Towards the end of the book Salva can not find a suitable refugee camp to live at. Nya and Salva overcome obstacles in A Long Walk to Water. In sudan there is war, Salvas village at Loun-Ariik was targeted next