The Long Walk

Linda Sue Park wrote the novel, ”A Long Walk to Water” in 2010. This story is based on a true event, This event is about two young adults and stories are interwoven but it is in the middle of Sudan. Salva is in the middle of a sudanese war in the 1980’s and Nya is set in current day. In Sudan both young adults have to survive in harsh conditions like war, disease, lack of purified water and high temperatures. The characters in the novel,”Long Walk to Water” survive their challenging environments

This world is a cruel one. Southern Sudan is no exception. One must master many skills to survive in this harsh environment. In the book A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park demonstrates survival to help the reader understand how strong a person has to be, both mentally and physically, to survive in brutal conditions. Salva survives his ordeal by having lots of patience and demonstrating excellent survival skills. Nya helps her entire family survive by supplying them with water every day. She does

Imagine being at school one day then the teacher getting interrupted by gunshots. RUN, that's all he hears as the gunshots slowly start fading away. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water who is an 11 year old boy on a constant struggle to escape the war with his uncle and finding food and water on the way, while also being stuck in refugee camps, needing to find water and trying to complete his biggest goal, finding his family.The factors that helped salva survive the

The author Linda Sue Park wrote this novel called A Long Walk To Water. She created this novel based on one of many lost boys, but focused on one out of all of them which was named Salva Dut Arilk. The second sudanese civil war broke out and caused lives in the 1980’s. After the war had came to his village he had been forced to survive on his own. The three most important survival factors that Salva needed to demonstrate along his journey are Perseverance, Hope, and Obedience. To begin with the

In the book, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, Salva realizes that he should never give up. Salva knew that he has to be confident and he needs to overcome obstacles. Sometimes Salva would think to himself. “There is no one left to help me. They think I am weak and useless. Salva lifted his head proudly. They are wrong and I will prove it.” (Park,66) Everyone thinks that since he is a kid, he is weak and useless. They think that he can’t do the things they do. Salva doesn’t believe that and

Then the men ran away.”(Park 63) This is just one of the many things that happened to Salva Dut on his journey and something that helps us learn about personal journeys. In the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Park, Salva’s journey starts when he was forced out of his homeland in Sudan when he was only 11 and had to walk for 11 years through southern Sudan, into Ethiopia, and then to Kenya until he finally gets some relief. Throughout his travels he goes through harsh terrain and cruel moments. We

A Long Walk to Water is a novel by Linda Sue Park, a true story of a young boy named Salva in war-torn Southern Sudan who survived despite all odds and the inconceivable challenges he encountered. Park shined light on the innumerable obstacles he faced as a Lost Boy. The Lost Boys are the thousands of young men who dared to make the journey to safety and refuge in Ethiopia by foot. Salva, only eleven years old when the war began in 1983 between the Muslim Arab north and the non-Muslim and non-Arab

The book Long Walk to the Water by the author Linda Sue park was about an 11 year African boy whom lives in South Sudan. During school he hears gunshots and flees into the brush. He than meets up with a bunch of other people who ran away and meet up with his village. Salva and the others rest in a barn but when he wakes up they had left. He stays with the barns owner and than leaves when other of his tribesman arrive. He learns from a friend that they are going to Ethiopia. Salva meets his uncle

being called in America the boys who had lost their homes and families because of the war and had wandered, lost, for weeks or months at a time before reaching the refugee camps”(91). Linda Sue Park wrote a novel based on one of these boys called “A long walk to water.” Salva Dut was a boy alone in Sudan and becomes a survivor by also becoming a leader, adapting to situations, and overcoming dangerous obstacles. Salva was a “lost boy” in a big world that had many problems, but he overcomes them by helping

One day, Josh was inside the book store reading the book that he published. When Josh and his little sister Maggie left the book store they saw something blue following them. They ignored it and went home. The next day, Josh went to the woods for a walk, and found Maggie there. When the two siblings decided to leave the woods, they saw something blue following them again. They found out that the blue things following them were actually faceless creatures that wanted to go to planet Yastol to get a