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    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

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    As Sal said, “Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings(no, that is not true—he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimmming hole, which all belonged to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.” Bybanks, Kentucky was an important setting in the novel “Walk to Moons“ to Sal. Why was Bybanks, Kentucky so important to her, such a little place with just

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    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

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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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    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

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    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

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    A Journey to Safety Imagine walking for miles and miles through a desert at a young age, with food and barely any water to survive. Well, “A Long Walk to Water” written by Linda Sue Park, tells a real life story about Salva Dut and his life long journey. Salva Dut is a survivor due to his experience during “A Long Walk to Water”, including the struggles of mother nature, all the dangerous walking, and losing his close family and friends. Salva Dut began walking to safety at age eleven

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    Salva’s Journey “Could you imagine having to be separated from your Family because of war, I could name one person that has been through a lot”. A young boy named Salva was separated from his family because of war, Salva has been through the hard deps and struggle of Southern Sudan. In many things Salva went through he met and lost the people he cared about. Salva can prove that he could survive and be strong. In the “A Long Walk to Water” many factors helped Salva. There are many ways persistence

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    A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is a non fictional and fictional story, telling the true story of Salva Dut, and the false story of Nya (Nya represents the people who Salva builds wells for towards the end of his story). Salva is a real person, who walked, and walked from Sudan, to Ethiopia, to Kenya, and eventually to America. On his journey, he shows persistence, perseverance, and gets lucky on numerous occasions during the story. In the story, Salva shows persistence in many ways. He

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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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