A Long Walk To Water In the book, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva shows perseverance is key when facing life’s challenges. Finding the courage to be brave is not always easy is explained and illustrated with examples of Salva being brave. “He was crying so hard he could hardly get his breath. He could not think, he could barely see. He had to slow down and for the first time on the long journey, he began to lag behind the group.” ( Park, 53) While Salva was walking through the Akobo Desert he got injured by stepping on a rock. Salva kept walking even when he could hardly breathe and he was falling behind, because he could have gotten lost and wouldn’t know where to go, and would have to travel alone. In addition, Salva shows …show more content…
“ Going, the big plastic container held only air. It would take her half the morning if she didn’t stop on the way. Heat. Time. And Thorns.” (Park, 1) That quote showed that Nya has to walk every day to get water, multiple times. Even when there are thorns on the ground and the weather is boiling hot, she still has to walk and carry the water. In the same way, Slave shows perseverance when he got an idea and didn’t know if he could do it. “ Could he do it? It would take so much work! Perhaps it would be difficult, But how would he know unless he tried?” ( Park, 107) Salva knew that his country was struggling with water so he had and an idea. He got help from his new family and other volunteers to help build wells for Sudan. Salva and Nya are pushing forward through the hard times and solving problems for a better life. Many people show perseverance, including me. I showed perseverance when I failed a quiz and I knew to get my grade up I had to work harder and study more. I knew if my parents found out that I failed a quiz they would yell at me and would be disappointed on me for getting a bad grade on a quiz because I didn’t study. This factor contributes me to work harder, I learned that I need to work harder to succeed, like Salva, how he showed perseverance by looking for his family. Just like Salva from A Long Walk To Water, I showed perseverance by studying more every time I got a lower …show more content…
“ Going, the big plastic container held only air. It would take her half the morning if she didn’t stop on the way. Heat. Time. And Thorns.” (Park, 1) That quote showed that Nya has to walk every day to get water, multiple times. Even when there are thorns on the ground and the weather is boiling hot, she still has to walk and carry the water. In the same way, Slave shows perseverance when he got an idea and didn’t know if he could do it. “ Could he do it? It would take so much work! Perhaps it would be difficult, But how would he know unless he tried?” ( Park, 107) Salva knew that his country was struggling with water so he had and an idea. He got help from his new family and other volunteers to help build wells for Sudan. Salva and Nya are pushing forward through the hard times and solving problems for a better
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.
“All of the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.” Walt Disney. The books A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, a fictional book, and Iqbal a fictional book, share the same theory. A Long Walk to Water is a book about the true story of Salva; a little boy that gets separated from his family because of the war in South Sudan and later becomes the leader of a group called the Lost Boys of South Sudan. This novel also includes a fictional story of Nya, a little girl that can’t go to school, because she has to walk to the water well twice a day, taking up most of the day. Salva helps Nya get a water well in her village years later by using his organization, Water for South Sudan. Iqbal is the true story of Iqbal Masih, a little boy that became a child slave, but was able to set himself and his friends free from slavery. This book is told in the point of view of Fatima a fictional little girl that was one of the children who was enslaved in the same factory as Iqbal. In each book, the characters grow stronger because of a cultural conflict. Cultural conflicts can force people to become stronger.
For more than two hundred years, a certain group of people lived in misery; conditions so inhumane that the only simile that can compare to such, would be the image of a caged animal dying to live, yet whose live is perished by the awful chains that dragged him back into a dark world of torture and misfortune. Yes, I am referring to African Americans, whose beautiful heritage, one which is full of cultural beauty and extraordinary people, was stained by the privilege given to white men at one point in the history of the United States. Though slavery has been “abolished” for quite some years; or perhaps it is the ideal driven to us by our modern society and the lines that make up our constitution, there is a new kind of slavery. One which in
As an abolitionist and previous slave, Frederick Douglass comprehended that the way to opportunity and full citizenship for African American men walked strai...
The dichotomy between those that are enslaved and those that are free is a very narrow one indeed. Arguably, the distance between the two is spanned only by an individual’s capacity to realize his innate humanity. For example, a slave that has only known the taste of the whip and the bite of shackles may be more in touch with his humanity than a poor, free man who has reached the pit of human degradation. Likewise an enterprising individual never encumbered by woes of abolition could possibly have a greater understanding of the value of life than a lowly slave. In 1859, Harriet E. Wilson attempts to explore this concept in her work entitled, Our Nig, or the Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. As the title proclaims, Our Nig is an account of the life of Frado, a free-born mulatto girl, who is abandoned by her mother and left to a life of servitude. The irony that is Frado’s life lies in the reality that while she is a free black living in the North, her lifestyle seems to closely resemble that of her enslaved counterparts in the South. In retrospect, however, many Southern slaves were able to appreciate elements of freedom, both mental and physical, that Frado, a free black, was never allotted.
During a most dark and dismal time in our nations history, we find that the Africans who endured horrible circumstances during slavery, found ways of peace and hope in their religious beliefs. During slavery, Africans where able to survive unbearable conditions by focusing on their spirituality.
Many people encounter perseverance throughout their life in certain events. Buck from the Call of the Wild, is taken from a place like home to him and thrown into a harsh environment he is not used to. Similar to that, my mom was living a normal life when suddenly she had to stay strong for the family due to her brother near death from a tragic wreck. Even though they differ, both had to adapt to the life changing experiences and stay mentally strong.
A Long Walk To Water is a beautifully written text by Linda Sue Park about two Sudanese kids who have difficult paths to walk in life. In the novel A Long Walk To Water Linda Sue Park juxtaposes the two characters of Nya and Salva, the story of Salva is true however the story of Nya is a realistic fiction piece used to show the difference of the two time periods in the country, and to illustrate how Salva started “The water for Sudan project.”. The book starts out when Nya and Salva are the mere age of 11. Both children are from what is now the country of Southern Sudan, in Northern Africa. However their situations were different. Salva starts the book living a normal cattle farmers son's life, when one day he is at school and the Northern
Jimmy Dean once advised, “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination.” The novel A Long Walk to Water authored by Linda Sue Park, is a work of realistic historical fiction and a dual narrative focused on adjusting to change. One storyline is about a young eleven year old girl named Nya who is apart of the Nuer tribe and lives in Sudan. Nya lives the life of a young Sudanese girls because they collect water for their family every day. The other storyline is about an eleven year old boy named Salva who is in the Dinka tribe and lives in Sudan, but travels throughout many countries and states in his life. Salva’s story line shows how getting attacked by rebels and escaping from civil war changed his and many others’ lives. Both characters face many changes throughout the story. Linda Sue Park wants readers to know to accept change for good or bad.
Perseverance is a very powerful word, many people go through hard times and don’t make it to see the other side. My story of perserverance starts sophomore year during football season. As two-a-days started everyone was excited to get through and get to play our first football game. As the season progressed I started feeling pains in my shoulder constantly; a few weeks go by with the pain continously getting worse. I specifically remember the first incident during a game, it was against White Oak about half way through the third quarter, as I was running to go make the play, as I dove to make the tackle I landed on my side and I felt a pop, not thinking anything about it I got up. When I reached my two feet something just didn’t feel, my shoulder
Slaves may have hated the situation they were in but they knew that they could not do anything about it so instead they chose to persevere. One occurrence of perseverance is when one slaves’ master
The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines perseverance as the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. In today’s society, there are so many walls and barriers that prevent humans from achieving their dreams and goals and people begin giving up. However, great poets such as Homer and famous music groups such as Mumford and Sons have used the strife of humanity to compose works that can be used to inspire and institute hope for humanity. With perseverance, there are three key aspects, struggle, loyalty, and strength. The struggle is what allows humans to learn, grow, and better themselves, the loyalty demonstrated provides motivation for success, and the personal strength allows the person to build
In From Slavery to Freedom (2007), it was said that “the transition from slavery to freedom represents one of the major themes in the history of African Diaspora in the Americas” (para. 1). African American history plays an important role in American history not only because the Civil Rights Movement, but because of the strength and courage of Afro-Americans struggling to live a good life in America. Afro-Americans have been present in this country since the early 1600’s, and have been making history since. We as Americans have studied American history all throughout school, and took one Month out of the year to studied African American history. Of course we learn some things about the important people and events in African American history, but some of the most important things remain untold which will take more than a month to learn about.
Suffering and hardship are pervasive themes throughout the book, as Douglass shares both the physical and mental torments that he faced as a slave. The Narrative is so full of tales of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the masters that it is difficult to choose which ones to share. There is one incident in which a slave by the name of Demby was brutally beaten by his master, ran to the creek in order to cool his wounds, and was shot by the master for not returning when called. As Douglass describes it, "His mangled body sank out of sight, and blood and brains marked the water where he had stood" (Douglass 246). Readers at the time of the book 's release must have been moved by such tales; they were not inclined to think of slaves as human beings capable of such suffering, but Douglass provided them with undeniable proof that a slave is as much a human being as they were. This message is important to keep in mind today, as we are taught to fear or despise groups who are different from us in some way; Douglass ' Narrative shows us that human beings have much more in common than their differences would suggest. The endurance is best expressed through the fact that at the hardest times and when the slaves felt they were at their lowest, they would sing songs while they worked. These songs were not sung out of joy, but out of sadness and to pass the time as the slaves worked. “The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears” (Douglass 242). As we can see, Douglass and other slaves in his situation lived through indignity and pain that is difficult to imagine. At the same time, they found ways to preserve their sense of themselves and their culture, which we are able to read about and admire in Douglass '
Perseverance is steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Correctional environments take their toll on all who pass through the