A Long Walk To Water Crossing unknown territories, going through brutal desert conditions, starving, losing everything that means the most to you, battling everyday for your life, and nearly dieing over ten times; all achieved by Salva Dut. In the book A Long Walk To Water, Linda Sue Park tells the story of who started off as a young boy, that turned into a man before he knew it, struggling everyday in the harsh wilderness. Salva is a true survivor; he lost all his loved ones, overcame dangerous and life-threatening obstacles, and adapted to a new culture, all things an average person wouldn’t be able to handle. On Salva’s quest to different refugee camps, he lost all his loved ones, including his entire family except his father. Salva was at school when the unthinkable happened: an ambush. Out of nowhere, all they heard was “Crack! Pop-Pop-Crack! Ack-Ack -Ack! Gunfire! …show more content…
One of those challenges was crossing the Gilo River, as Salva thought, “Swollen by the rains, the Gilo’s current would be merciless. The Gilo River was well known for something else, too. Crocodiles” (75). After finally reaching a refugee camp, the Ethiopian government collapsed, so people came in shooting at all the refugees, forcing them to cross the death-seeking river. Sudan is a desert, therefore meaning that it is excruciatingly dry and unbearably hot, so everyday Salva thought, “...his body cried out for huge gulps of thirst-quenching, life-giving water” (53). Salva was lucky if they could find water, clean water especially; but after Uncle’s death, he would be even more lucky if the group shared it with him. Lion Country was an obstacle too; one that Marial didn’t survive. “Salva, we will soon be out of Lion Country” (41). Uncle had told Salva what is said in the quote above, and it happened- him and Salva had survived Lion Country. Although Salva encountered life-threatening obstacles, he
The author Linda Sue Park's book, A Long Walk to Water, tells a story of a boy named Salva who was a lost boy in the Second Sudanese civil war in 1980. Salva managed to survive the war along the way without his family and survived on his own following ways to go on in life no matter what bad situation he was in.
In the story, A Long Walk to Waters, written by Linda Sue Park, the readers are introduced to many different individuals that were able to survive challenging environments. Those individuals used those factors, perseverance, cooperation, and independence. Those factors have allowed individuals to make it past through the harsh environments throughout their journey. Perseverance shows how those individuals kept on going without giving up. Meanwhile, cooperation represents how struggling individuals are able to work together in order to achieve their goal. Last but not least independence shows how individuals can conquer a hurdle by him or herself.
Once More to the Lake and The Pond. White and Thoreau, two diverse minds. When you look into their writings you seem to find something that rises to your attention, some of what you see seems to fit into the others writing. Yet taking a closer look you see that they are not particularly saying the same thing. Is it because they felt like writing or did something cause these writers to exploit there minds and make something out of their thoughts? Every sentence and every word say something much deeper. When reading these writings you have to look deep within the writing. You begin to notice you are reading something quite fascinating.
Throughout The Awakening, water the main motif serves as a catalyst to the metamorphosis of Edna. During the length of the story Edna goes through a process of changes that coincides with the presence of water. Water serves as a conduit for liberation and empowerment that facilitates the rebirth and even death of Edna. In this essay I will argue that the motif of water represents the continual transformations that occur within Edna throughout the story.
There are many people that can’t have what you do. When you sit there and think about how poor you are and how much you don’t have you should really be thinking of the people that have even less. Linda Sue Parks was one of the people that did and she wrote a book called A Long Walk to Water which is a true story. In the novel there is a young boy named Salva Dut. Salva Dut was an 11 year old boy who was separated from his family because of a school shooting. This happened in Sudan which is now South Sudan because of war. In hopes that he finds his family again he will walk and walk everyday. Salva also faces many challenging things while he’s walking such as finding food and water, avoiding gunmen, and wild animals. Salva had a lot of accomplishments on his way too like leading 1500 lost boys of Sudan to a refugee camp by the Gilo River, then he goes to America seven years later and lives with a family in New York, and he finds his father many years later and starts a group called Water
Persistence pushed him to face his fears and continue the walk. In the middle of the walk to the camp, Salva watched his uncle get robbed and killed. Salva’s self-confidence diminished. On top of his insecurity, the group he traveled with complained about how the Salva was a waste to their limited food supply and abandoned him. However, Salva realized, “There is no one left to help me”.
In the book Still Water Saints, a novel by Alex Espinoza, Perla is a women who is a spiritual, loving, caring, and full of wisdom. She’s described as a women who helps a lot of people. She owns a botanica full of natural herbs for remedies for stress, pain, or any other health issues people may have. I imagine she works in a hidden small building with herbs on the shelves surrounding the whole store. I feel that she’s very traditional and her presence is warming and comforting. She genuinely cares for the people she helps treat by the way she cares for their needs and how she closed the shop for the boy who wets the bed for privacy. She takes pride in what she does and the way she describes preparing the remedies, is like it’s her purpose in
...utweighed only by his need to get to him. So, he runs harder, faster than ever and then “knowing it was too late,”(287) Sarty hears the shots. Bang . . . . .Bang! Bang! And it is over. The night is quiet save for the distant echo of a young boy’s agonizing screams “Father! Father!”(287)
In the book, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva shows perseverance is key when facing life’s challenges.
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the effect of changing the concentration of sodium chloride solution on the rate of osmosis in tubes of potatoes. This was maintained using equal measurements of the potato tubes and applying them into the different concentrations of sodium chloride, 0%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 20% and 26%, in beakers then measuring the change in mass of the potato tubes afterwards. The time taken for all potato tubes to be placed in solution was 15 minutes. Can the concentration gradient of the sodium chloride solution influence on the rate of osmotic diffusion undergone by the potato tubes?
He makes a dangerous trek everyday to secure the lives of others The narrator says, "So every four days Keran gathers his collection of plastic containers and travels down the hill," (Galloway 14). Keran risks his life to get clean water for the family and Mrs. Ristovski. Keran shows that bravery is essential for the preservation of mankind. If he wanted he could easily go to a closer water source, risking parasites. Water is water, but no, he wants the best for his family and neighbor. Keran can stop getting water for Mrs. Ristovski whenever he chooses. It is not a secret that she is not the nicest person. The narrator relays that, "Though annoyed by her repeated intrusion into the their lives, Keran tolerated Mrs. Ristovski, often above his wife's objections, (Galloway 19). Keran goes to show that to preserve human life people need to look after one another. If everyone just looked after number one then the world would be in a state of chaos. To sustain human life one must take into consideration the well-being of others. Through Keran's actions the reader is able to see that sacrifices must be made for the greater
In the book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, Salva goes through a lot of loss and gains hope and persistence, which he learns will be necessary to succeed. This included the 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 Park’s book, Salva deals with these obstacles, and other plot events by using hope and persistence which illustrates the main idea of the book.
Gonzales, Laurence. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2003. Print.
Salva Mawien Dut Ariik was a “Lost boy” during the second Sudanese War and the true story of his journey is also conveyed in A Long Walk to Water. In the beginning of Salva’s story, after Salva’s friend, Marial, died overnight by a lion, Salva was terrified but he urged himself to move on and help his group instead. The text in A Long Walk to Water says, ”It was hard work running back and forth between those cutting and those weaving. But Salva found that the work was helping him feel a little better. He was too busy to worry much. Doing something, even carrying big, awkward piles of slippery reeds was better than doing nothing”, (Park, 44). This demonstrates how Salva was terrified by the incident that happened to his best friend but he was determined to move on and made himself help the others for weaving the boats because now this was for his survival and the remaining refugees’ survival. Salva also understood that the hard work made him feel a little better because when he was busy he didn’t think of the incident with Marial which would also help him get over it and not be bothered by it for a long time.At the end of Salva’s story, after Salva found his dad and learned that his father’s digestive system was riddled with guinea worms due to drinking so much contaminated water and at that time Salva had an
Paragraph 2: Another important factor that made survival possible for salva is perseverance. In chapter 9 on page 52 it says, “After only a few minutes Salva had to kick off the flapping shreds and continue barefoot.” That shows perseverance because despite the fact that the sand was scorching. Salva didn’t give up and instead of complaining through the hike across the desert. He endured his pain from the thorns stabbing his feet and stubbing his bare toe on the rock which resulted in his whole toenail coming off. On top of that, the hardest thing Salva had ever done, was taking tiny sips when his body sobbed for huge gulps of thirst- quenching water.