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    Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water, the characters teach readers that one with hope and persistence will go far in life. Salva and his tribe continue to face the same problems over and over again, like the challenges the war brings, success, or even the loss of close family and friends. Show the readers that each time they succeed is a miracle. The characters actions and opinions towards the struggles they face, makes it clear to the readers what the main idea is in the novel, A Long Walk to Water.

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    My question is: How and to what extent can everyday Americans help and support Sudanese refugees in and outside of America? I finished reading A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, and after, arrived at this question. A Long Walk to Water was based on a true story about an 11 year old boy who had to flee his home and walk his way to safety. It was 1985 and a war broke out. Sadly, it came to his village when he was in school. The school master told them to run away as fast as they could. He ended

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    org/wiki/Lost_Boys_of_Sudan). In A Long Walk To Water, a book by Linda Sue Park, one of the main themes is perseverance. The book is about a young boy who is forced to flee his village, due to a war. He meets a few people along the way, and he is faced with very catastrophic events. Throughout the book Salva learns how to deal with challenges. He keeps pushing through all of his hardships. Salva had to keep walking and walking till he found a new safe destination. “The days became a never-ending walk. Salva’s feet kept

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    Perseverance A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park is a dual narrative about a civil war in Sudan between the Nuer and Dinka Tribes. It shows the hardships that a child from both tribes live their every day. Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to succeeding when they gave up”. This quote reminds me of the hardships Salva faces.Though he faces many hardships he doesn’t stop. Like when in the desert and Salva broke his toenail off

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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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    The title itself, “A Long Walk To Water” can already be seen as a metaphor―water is something we need; something we thrive on. To get to that necessity, there would be a long and tiresome walk, which is basically the challenging part―and it requires perseverance. Take, for example, Nya: she does exactly what the title says. Nya walks for hours a day, twice a day in order to get water from a dry pond. On page 20, we see Nya doing exactly this, “Home long enough to eat, Nya would now make

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    threatened villages in Sudan, so many people were forced to leave their homes and families behind. That's just what Salva had to do one dreadful day while at school. A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park is a story about a young boy named Salva, who lives in Sudan. He had to grow up with war going on around him, and had to walk away from it all. Salva even had to leave his whole family behind in trade for safety. Throughout all his struggles Salva stayed strong and has become what we know as a

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    their hometown and went to refugee camps in other countries, Ethiopia and later Kenya. One of these people is called Salva Dut and his story was written in a novel called, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. The novel writes Salva’s many difficult circumstances that he has experience because of the war in Sudan. Having to walk to Akobo Desert to go

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    The book, “A long Walk to Water,” has made me apprehend on all of those problems that are occurring in the world, particularly in Africa. The struggle of their lifestyles, which is so much more distinct from ours, has made me realize how fortunate I am to be living where I am, and how safe I am. Their oppositions with war, have split their country apart and has separated millions of lives throughout their country. But just the fact that the book is a true story, just moves me. The time periods of

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    The book A Long Walk to Water is based on true story. The book is based in Africa, but in two different time periods. The first-time period is in 1985 based around a boy and his family by the name of Salva. The second-time period is in 2008 and is based on a girl by the name of Nya. In 1985, war had broken out in Salva’s village while he was at school. He ran for his life until he was safe not knowing where his family was. Until he was safe he hid out in a barn pending he had to leave. He found some

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