...A Long Walk to Victory How would you feel living without seeing your family for most of your life? In the book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, about a boy named Salva Dut losing his family when he was younger. Salva Dutch survived even with the obstacles he crossed during his time away from his family. Salva lost his best friend, saw menacing animals, ravenous without food or water, and seen war for most of his life. With Africa being a threat to walk through, Salva made changes on how he lived quickly. One of the changes Salva had to adapt to was the dangerous animals in Africa. One morning Salva had been awoken by Uncle that his friend Marial had been killed by a lion in Lion Country. “A lion had been hungry enough to approach the group as they slept. Afew men had been keeping watch, but in the dark of a night…” (41). They had seen lions everyday they walked in Lion Country. People couldn’t keep up with watching over people because their bodies had been exhausted from not enough food and water in their system. “Everyone was always hungry, and there was never enough food” (85). The lack of food made Salva decide to walk back to the refugee camp, but things were not that much better. “They are going to close the camp. Everyone will have to leave. Not just this camp, all of them” (73)....
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...A long walk to water is a non-fiction novel written by Linda Sue Park. This story focuses on the life of Salva Mawien Dut and how his character changes from a happy to depressed to a brave and happy person again throughout the novel. Salva lives in Southern Sudan and is 11 years old in the year 1985. At this time, there is a war going on against the government. In page 2, it mentions that Salva has a family of 8 with 3 brothers and 2 sisters. His father is a successful man since he worked as village judge and owned many head of cattle. Salva was healthy and happy since he gets some education, always has enough food and a has a wealthy, loving family. Although there isnt much water in Southern Sudan Salva learns how to adapt to the environment....
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...me, because it’s a loyal action, and that action can change people’s point of view on you. The novel, A Long Walk To Water tells the story of Salva and Nya, teenagers living in South Sudan that have to struggle each day with their own issues. Nya has to walk 12 hours a day just to get water from a local source, and when Salva got more mature he helped out those people living there. He and his coworkers went down to Nya’s area of the country and they built a well. Another example, is the article, “In South Africa, volunteers deliver water to ease drought emergency.” There was a drought two years ago in South Africa, and government officials sent down trucks of water...
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...Aren’t you always frustrated when a movie is made of a book you always enjoyed and the character looks nothing like you had imagined? This can only happen when the author does an excellent job crafting the character so you can see it in your minds eye. A Long Walk to Water is a perfect example of such description. In this book Linda Sue Park does an astonishing job in bringing the unwavering character, Salva, to life. One reoccurring theme Park used to craft Salva was his undying determination to survive. Not many people would be able to carry on their journey after losing their family, their best friend, and their only uncle. However, Salva does just that and in the process he managed to save 1 thousand 2 hundred peoples lives. It is not...
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...Linda Sue Park wrote a very interesting novel about the life of a boy named Salva called A Long Walk To Water. He was from a village in Sudan, but was chased out from war and lost his family in his journeys. Therefore, Salva had to go through shootings, tiredness, hunger, pain, crocodiles, and monstrous tides in his journey to find his family. Like Salva, individuals survived challenging environments in A Long Walk to Water with perseverance, hope, and luck. Salva had perseverance during his walk to a refugee camp and that helped him keep going even when he was at the bridge of death. He was starving, had not eaten or drank for a long time, but he kept on going, with every ounce of of his will Salva pushed himself. “He stumbled...
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...In the book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, the main character goes through a lot of loss and gains hope and persistence which he learns will be necessary to succeed. This included loss of loved ones, harsh changes in the weather, and the doubt of his ability which this helped him move through his long journey. In Linda Sue Parks book, the main characters deal with these obstacles, and other plot events by using hope and persistence which illustrates the main idea of the book; “A Long Walk to Water”. Facing the loss of loved ones and the doubt put on your ability is hard to deal with. Especially in the book, “A Long Walk to Water”. According to Linda Sue Park’s book, “A Long Walk to Water”, in chapter 11 page 65-66 it says, “Marial...
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...Before reading A Long Walk To Water, I disagreed that there really isn’t a point to learn about other cultures. I was kind of neutral about this and just decided that I was more on the disagree side because cultures didn’t really matter to me and it wasn’t that interesting. To me, culture was just another thing that I just ignored. Now, after reading the book A Long Walk To Water, I strongly disagree with this statement because it was really cool learning about the Dinka and the Nuer culture. From the book, it explains that the Dinka and the Nuer both have scar patterns on their forehead. The Dinka have v shaped scars, while the Nuer have lines and dots scars. When Salva finds Auntie, he notices scar patterns on her forehead. In the novel it...
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...Linda Sue Park, the author of A Long Walk to Water, tells the story of Salva and the Lost Boys of Sudan. Salva ran from fighting in his village, alone, at the age of eleven. He faces many challenges, but he possesses certain qualities and had people with him who help him survive. Salva has his Uncle and his Uncle’s strategy, Salva has his maturity and his determination. The challenges Salva faces are very hard to get through, but Salva finds a way to survive the dangerous countries of Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya and makes it to America, away from the brutal civil war in his home country. Throughout Salva’s trek, his Uncle Jewir encourages Salva to keep going. Although Uncle is shot and killed, the memory and thought of him continue to help Salva go on. Uncle shares this one idea with Salva, his way to get through life; to just take one step, one problem at a time. Many years after Uncle died, Salva finds himself leading a...
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...In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva encounters many different types of conflicts throughout his journey. For example, when Salva was going to join a group, one of the group members said, ”Another mouth to feed? It’s already hard enough to find food” (21). This shows that Salva will be facing a form of conflict which is person versus nature. Salva will be experiencing this because he is adding to the amount of people in the group which means that there will be less food for everyone. Another form of conflict that many people faced on Sudan is a person versus person conflict. This form of conflict is represented because there were many people fighting in the Sudan’s civil war. After the village was attacked the crowd spread the...
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...Southern Sudan, 1985, was the time of civil war between the rebels of Southern Sudan and the government of the north. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, it tells a story of a boy named Salva, who was just only 11 when this civil war happened. Salva, was part of the group named “The Lost Boys”.In his journey to go to a refugee camp, he faces many hardships. For example, his missing family. Salva, the main character in Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water is able to survive and overcome a variety of challenges, through his hard work, relationships, and perseverance. To overcome challenges is difficult, but Salva, through hard work, was able to overcome his problems. When Salva was left by the first group he was with, he found a...
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...Have you ever had a dry mouth or dry skin? If you have, those are the few signs of dehydration. These conditions were normal to the characters of the novel “A Long Walk to Water”, Salva Dut and Nya. In this novel, Salva and Nya are survivors of two different conflicts of both war and nature. According to Webster’s Dictionary survivor defies as,“ a person who survives, especially a person remaining alive after an event in which others have died.” but the definition I get from this book is to be determined to persevere instead of quitting. By the end of the novel, Salva leaves a note in which he states, “Stay calm when things are not going your way. You will persevere instead of quitting. Quitting will lead to less happiness in your life then...
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...What if you had to take half of the day to walk and get water? Or if there were people trying to kick your out of you hometown? Well, in A Long Walk to Water, two people with different stories weren’t asking, but were living those questions just asked. First, you will read about the obstacle that a boy named Salva faced and overcame. Then, you will read about the obstacle Nya faced. Finally, you will read about the obstacles that Salva had to face in his project. Nya and Salva overcame many obstacles in A Long Walk to Water. One obstacle that Salva overcame was the loss of Marial. A Long Walk to Water is a novel written by Linda Sue Park. It is about an eleven year old boy from a Dinka tribe in South Sudan and another part is about an eleven year old girl from the Nuer tribe in Sudan. According to the novel, “A cold fist seemed to grip Salva’s heart.” (Park page 38). Salva made a friend named Marial. One night Marial disappeared and Salva was downcast. The novel also states, “He clung to Uncle like a baby or little boy[...] Marial was gone-vanished into the night” (Park page 40). Salva was so upset that he shut...
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...Write down four song titles in 8, 9, 10 and 11. Scroll down to see results. Do not scroll until you finish writing! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Results * The name in space 3 is the one you love. * The person in 7 is the one you like but can't work out. * You care most about the person you put in 4. * Number 5 is the one who knows you very well. * The name in 6 is your lucky star. * The song in 8 is the song that matches with the person in 3. * The title in 9 is the song for 7. * The tenth space is the song that tells you most about your mind. * And 11 is the song telling how you feel about sex! From the following sixteen facts, try to determine: A. Who drinks the water? B. Who owns the zebra? 1. There are five houses. 2. The Englishman lives in the red house 3. The Spaniard owns a dog 4. Coffee is drunk in the green house 5. The Ukranian drinks tea 6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house 7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails 8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house 9. Milk is drunk in the middle house 10. The Norwegian lives in the first house 11. The Chesterfields smoker lives next door to the man with the fox 12. Kools are smoked in the house next to the house with the horse 13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice 14. The Japanese smokes Parliaments 15. The Norwegian lives next door to the blue house. 16. In each house there is one nationality, one pet, one...
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...integrative model developed in the early 1980’s by Prochaska and DiClemente to conceptualize the process of intentional behavior change (Pro- Change Behavior Systems, 2015). The TTM emerged from a comparative analysis of the most powerful principles and processes of change from leading theories in psychotherapy and behavior change, including Conscious Raising by Sigmund Freud, Contingency Management by BF Skinner and Helping Relationships by Carl Rogers (Hayden, 2014; Hergenrather, 200*; Pro- Change Behavior Systems, 2015). Whereas other models of behavior change focus exclusively on certain dimensions of change such as social or biological, the TTM seeks to include and integrate key constructs from other theories into a comprehensive theory of change that can be applied to a variety of behaviors, populations, and settings including treatment settings, prevention and policy-making settings. Thus the name Transtheoretical (Pro- Change Behavior Systems, 2015). Stages of change It is not easy to for individuals to change from an unhealthy behavior to a healthy one. Therefore, the TTM focuses on the decision-making of the individual. It operates on the assumption that people do not change behavior quickly and decisively, rather, change in behavior, particularly long-term behavior, occurs continuously through a cyclical process (Boston University School of Public Health, 2016). The TTM postulates that individuals move through five stages of change: pre-contemplation, contemplation...
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...Metaphor Analysis The Sea and Dry Land In his Preface to the play, Bolt informs the reader his main metaphors are the sea and dry land, to suggest the supernatural order vs. the human order. The sea is formless, vast, and unpredictable. The land is security, home, order, what is known. Thomas More paradoxically clings to the safety of law and land but finds himself swept by his religious faith out to sea. Bolt did not want a purely naturalistic play, he says, and the metaphors are a way to add scope and philosophic depth, as in a poem. Thomas More is a home-loving man with his house and family in Chelsea and their well-ordered ways. In addition, he is a lawyer who believes in the law as the safeguard of the citizens: “The law is a causeway upon which, so long as he keeps to it, a citizen may walk safely” (Act Two, p. 153). At his trial, More says to the Court which has condemned him through a perjury, “God help the people whose Statesmen walk your road” (Act Two, p. 157). The government should create and safeguard well-kept roads for the people. There should be landmarks, agreement about the best way to go and how to get there. This is what makes a civilization, and More fervently believes in and lives according to the letter of the law. He believes himself safe, because he knows the law so well that he is sure his silence cannot be interpreted as treason. The Common Man, who provides narration and commentary, remarks in an early scene, “The great thing’s not to get...
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