The Long Walk

This is an analysis of motivating factors in Stephen King’s novel, The Long Walk. This analysis will be connecting some of the themes and terms used in Professor Maclin’s Motivation and Emotion hybrid course to the book’s main character, Garraty and his small group of allies. Physiological needs used in the novel include themes such as the need for homeostasis. Motivation is a strong factor in the novel and will be connected to the textbook’s chapter associated with information about intrinsic and

opposing sides into play. I chose the books Iqbal, by Francesco D’Adamo, and A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, because of they demonstrate this. I hope you realize that these

captive against their will and either had the choice to move or die. The Long Walk is about how the U.S. government forced the Navajos to walk from their homeland to a fort in New Mexico. Many died from the journey to imprisonment. Did the U.S. government do the right thing to send the Navajos on a 300 mile trek or should the U.S. government have left the Navajos at their homeland? The topics that will be discussed is what the Long Walk was, previous conflicts between the U.S. government and the Navajos

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

Have you ever wondered how it felt to be on your own? Or had to survive without food or water by your side? Well according to “ A Long Walk to water” by Linda Sue Park, it talks all about survival. For example, the book mentions how Salva is all by himself and that he has no one to help him and how Nya has to walk to get water by herself. So the only thing they could do is survive and take care of themself. According to the Webster Dictionary, survival means “ the state or fact of continuing to

In Linda Sue Park’s book A Long Walk To Water, the main character learned that one with hope and persistence will go far in their life. The main character had hope and persistence on his journey when he lost loved ones during the war, went to the refugee camp, and to his “new” family in the United States of America. The main character showed that he had hope and persistence to keep him moving throughout this marjory journey. Slava faced many struggles in his journey, some were mentally

A Long Walk to Water A man who goes by the name Salva Dut had grown up during a time of war, fighting to survive another day. Given the circumstances growing up, what he went through each day is what would deem him a survivor. In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva was a young boy who was separated from his family and had to leave his home because of war. On his journey for survival, Salva has overcome difficult challenges, the loss of the ones dearest to him, and adapting to

One important factor in A Long Walk to Water that helps Salva survive is his motivation from the loss of his family/friends. After Salva loses Uncle and Mariel, Salva continues as a stronger and more self-dependent man. As it states in A Long Walk to Water, “Mariel and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. I was almost as if they had left their

“The 100-day Nightmare by Kizito Kalima” about the Tutsis is worse than the Salvas story in "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park because they face genocide and discrimination against their people. After the government, which was controlled by the Hutus, started a civil war and sent out a list of Tutsis to kill while also handing out machetes and clubs to further push the violence, the government was corrupt, people were dying, kids were being orphaned, women and children are also dying, and the

in Sudan certainly have even though their story will always be remembered, they’re are other texts that explain historical events about Sudan. They are Lost Boys of Sudan by UNICEF and the Lost Girls of Sudan by Ishebel Matheson. In the novel A Long Walk to Water this was Salvas' experience but the author Linda Sue Park altered history and kept in how the boy had to run from a moving war and kept out the treatment from the foster home. Linda Sue Park excludes specific details about the Lost Girls