The Long Walk

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

In the book A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Slava shows us courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. This essay discusses that It’s good to have memories of the past but don't let them control you. “Where are we going? Where is my family? When will I see them again?” (Park, 9). It takes a lot of Salva’s courage to move on without his family and to keep going knowing he is alone without them. This ties into months later when

The Long Walk “We have no money, so quit your complaining! It’s only a six mile walk!” My mom screamed at me three hours before my dentist appointment. My family doesn’t have any money to fill the car with gas, so we have to walk everywhere. But not only didn’t we have the money, but this town has no gas station, so filling it up would require us to drive 45 miles, which makes the trip even more expensive. I wish this town had more to it, then it would make my long walks around town more enjoyable

things are talked about in the book, ¨A Long Walk To Water” Written by:Linda Sue Park. Salva and Nya overcame many harsh obstacles in the book, ¨A Long Walk To Water”. Nya(a main character in the book) lives a very difficult life in southern sudan. Nya is a girl in a tribe called nuer in her part of southern sudan women cook and clean they also care for the children(up to a certain age). In Nya’s tribe once the girls are old enough, They fetch water they walk for miles every day, Twice a day and

Salva Dut from A Long Walk to Water as an example. At the early age of eleven, he was separated from his family during a school shooting, later leading over fifteen hundred young boys across the Southern Sudan desert as teenager. In the documentary On the Way to School, a prime example would be young Jackson Saikong. Every school day, he would have to lead his sister on a nine mile journey, racing past aggressive elephants at only the age of ten. From Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water to the documentary

Life. It’s like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. I know. That was cheesy, but you can’t deny the truth. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park and Don’t You Dare Read This Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix, you are being put through this endless cycle of feelings. A cycle that will keep spinning you and spinning you, then when you get out, you feel all woozy, confused, and broken. You don’t know what this book of unknown will throw at you next, but you pray

considered a survivor in a tough situation, you are required to have some strong characteristics within you. The first characteristic that a survivor needs to have is bravery. We see the character Salva show the characteristic of bravery in the story A Long Walk to Water when the author writes “Salva lowered his head and ran. This proves the character Salva is a survivor because he was brave enough to run and try to escape the people that were bombing his home.

A Long Walk To Water Theme In the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, there are two stories that converge. Salva is a boy from the Dinka tribe that is trying to run from the Sudan Civil War. Nya is a girl that must collect water for her family every day, so they can survive. One good theme that appears in A Long Walk to Water is to keep moving forward toward your goal even when things get rough. In the book, Nya and Salva are both walking towards their goals. Nya has to walk to a big,

The 1950’s marked the beginning of a long battle for civil rights among African Americans in the United States. The civil rights movement was a unique period in the history of the United States because the black population started to gain a voice and rebel against the injustices that were occurring in their everyday lives. A great step toward equality, which occurred in 1955, was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This historical event is shown in the film The Long Walk Home, which stars Sissy Spacek as an

Have you ever seen soldiers fire at children for religious purposes? Well, eleven year old Salva Dut has. In A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park, Salva Dut, Parks main character is a “Lost Boy of Sudan”. Despite the gruesome challenges Salva faced, for instance, the loss of family,the merciless war, and the hostile environment of South Sudan. Salva was able to survive because of his persistence and his uncle. The first factor that helped Salva survived in his journey is his persistence