The Long Walk

Linda Sue Park’s intriguing novel A Long Walk to Water reveals the impact of the devastation of war on Sudan's inhabitants and the ultimate struggle for survival. Even though giving up continues to be the easiest option, Salva Dut, an adolescent from South Sudan, fights for his life while holding on to the little hope he has. In spite of the devastation and conflict, Salva remains strong and continues to persevere to survival, saving numerous lives along the way. Salva, still with hope, struggles

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

Linda Sue Park’s novel A long walk to water is about the lost boys of Sudan, Salva ,a real lost boy, Nya, a fictional character as they go through tough times. In the story Nya and Salva have very tough times like Salva and the Akoba desert and the Gilo river, Nya and go to get water every single day.They learn to face their challenges and get through it all. This is one challenge Salva goes through is crossing the crocodile infested Gilo River the book says “The Gilo River

Salva was running, running fast into the bush, they heard pops lots of them.Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk to Water.He is only 11 when he starts this long trek.He had to survive many difficult obstacles that were on his way to get away from the horrible war.The factors that helped Salva survive was his self-motivation, his Uncle, and drive to find family. His first survival factor he uses is his self-motivation when he is running away from from war and through all the

In the book, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva learns to never give up. Most people never give up on either trying to survive or to succeed. Salva kept running for his life to get away from the gunshots. “He ran until he could not run anymore.” (Park, 9). Salva was wasting every last of his breathe to not get killed. “Salva felt his knees turn to water. If I die now, I will never see my family again. Somehow, this thought strengthened him enough to keep him from collapsing in terror

A Long Walk To Water Imagine having to run away from your hometown with thousands of other boys you don’t know. Then imagine having to walk 16 hours a day to provide dirty water for your family. Well there’s a boy named Salva that had to run away and walk thousands of miles not knowing where he’s going or where is family is. But for a girl named Nya she had to persevere walking through the hot weather stepping on thorns for 16 hours everyday just to provide dirty water for their family

between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation army. The extensive fight lasted 22 years, one of the longest civil wars in history. Many people in Sudan were affected during this hard time, including Nya and Salva. In the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the theme is perseverance. Salva faces many bumps in the road becoming one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, but he works through all of his issues while trying to stay positive. Salva was only a child when he was forced

Linda Sue Park´s novel, A Long Walk to Water tells about the stories of Nya and Salva. Salva´s character is a young boy who survives the Second Sudanese Civil War by running away from war. Nya is a character that symbolizes all of the women in Southern Sudan who have to walk miles for dirty unclean water. Individuals survive challenging environments in this novel with water, encouragement, and family. People need water to survive in challenges. In Nya’s village located in Southern Sudan during

In the novel A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva is a non-fictional character that almost died just so he can find his family. He went through many struggles but overcame them in order to survive because of the desire to see his family, leadership, and hard work. The first survival factor that helped him overcome his struggles was the desire to see his family. In the novel the desire helps Salva because his family has been separated from him, so the desire to find his family

A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park is about survival because the two main characters Salva and Nya are trying to survive in one country, Sudan, in two different timelines 1980s and 2000s. My definition of survival is like crossing the border by foot or getting lost somewhere. According to wiki the definition is the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. A quote from the book is “No one shared anything with salva