...would run through Salva’s head on his journey. He would turn a bad situation into his motivation to keep going. To explain, in Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk to Water, she portrays two different stories. One is Salva Dut, about how war came to his village and he was separated from his family. His expedition was long and hard, and all he wanted was to be safe. The other story is about a young girl named Nya. Park writes about her long walks, twice a day, to get water for her family. Salva Dut and Nya enduring enough pain to last more than one lifetime. The danger of Mother Nature, adapting to new places, and the fear of losing the ones...
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...teaches two stories, but one of them talks about a boy named Salva going on a huge journey. Salva Mawien Dut Ariik was an eleven year old boy that was in the Dinka tribe, along with his family. While his sisters stayed at home, every day he would go to school to get an education. Unfortunately, while he was at school, numerous gun shots were heard from outside. The North and the South were at war, and many people living in the villages around them were either killed or captured. Luckily, Salva was one of the captured, and he was rounded up with women and children. Soon thereafter, he ended up getting ditched in a barn. Salva had no idea where any of his family was, and he was all alone. While sitting there...
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...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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