Salva’s Journey Through the Sudanese Civil War
The African state of Sudan was plagued by a civil war as written about in Linda Sue Park’s “A Long Walk to Water.” This book follows a boy named Salva from present day South Sudan. The book starts in 1985 when Salva is 11 years old. Salva is a survivor. He endured the Civil war, Dangerous African Wilds, and the Gilo River. The first major thing that troubled Salva was the Civil War. It led to an attack on his school, soldiers recruiting people from his group, and it also set his group on the run. While in class Salva’s teacher told them, “Go Quickly, all of you! Into the bush, do you hear me? Not home, DO NOT run home stay away from the villages.”(6). While retreating from the village his school
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Salva had many factors that spelled death for him here but he resisted. These such things included the firearms being shot into the group, the boy choking him and the immense current of the river that drowned many. The men that were sent by the new Ethiopian government to force all the refugees out of their country arrived at the camp en masse with guns and forced the people out. They led them to the Gilo River which was the border between Sudan and Ethiopia. Once the people got to the banks of the river the soldiers began shooting into the crowd. “The rain was still pouring down-and now bullets were pouring down as well. The soldiers started shooting into the river, aiming their guns at the people who were trying to get across”(78). A second thing that caused trouble for Salva while he tried to cross the Gilo was the small child who lept onto his back. “A boy next to him grabbed him around the neck and clung to him tightly. Salva was forced under the surface without time to take more than a quick, shallow breath”(78). The final thing that troubled Salva as he attempted to cross the River was the current. The current of the river was very strong while they tried to cross because it had been raining “Other people, afraid of the soldiers and their guns, were leaping into the water on their own. They were immediately swept downstream by the powerful
Running away from your own family and town seems horrible but that’s just what Salva had to do. Salva is a Sudanese child who is stuck in the middle of a war against the Dinka and the Nuer tribe. Salva is the main character in Linda Sue Park’s novel A Long Walk to Water. The book describes the constant struggle of having to live where there is no water, or really bad, not clean, muddy water. The story shows how he ran away into the bush because of a war in his Village. It was not easy to find his family again after Salva ran away. While running from war, he is also separated from his family. Three factors helped Salva survive in a challenging environment, they are Water, his Uncle, and Hope.
The film God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary about the journey of a couple of Sudanese “lost boys” to their new lives in the United States. The film is divided in two parts. The first one gives the historical background of what led to the boys’ situation at the time the documentary was being filmed and what their lifestyle at Kakuma camp looks like. It starts by recounting the events that led up to the Second Sudanese Civil War of 1983. The conflict was fought along ethno religious lines between the Muslim North and the non-Muslim South. By 1983, 27,000 people, including the lost boys, from the South were forced to flee as the Sudanese government, held in the hands by northerners, announced that all men in south should be killed regardless of age. After a short stay in an Ethiopian refugee camp, the boys finally arrived to Kakuma refugee
In this novel, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world try to bring aid into an area of Sudan so dangerous that the UN will not enter it. The main characters are Douglas Braithwaite, an American aviator who flies medical supplies and food to Southern Sudan; Fitzhugh Martin, a former professional soccer player who hopes relief work will give his directionless life a purpose; Wesley Dare, a cynical, pragmatic pilot hiding his true loving persona; Quinette Hardin, an Iowan Christian who goes to Africa to spread her faith and ends up liberating slaves from Arab raiders and falling in love with a Sudanese rebel commander; and the head antagonist, Ibrahim Idris Nur-el-Din, an Arab warlord whose obsessive quest for a concubine makes him wonder if the Muslim holy war against Sudan's southern blacks is right.
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.
Since 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese government have been at war within the southern region of Sudan. This brutal conflict has ravaged the country claiming hundreds of lives and exiling a vast number of the southern Sudanese people. Most of these outcasts were young men aging between five and twelve years of age who returned home from tending cattle to see their village being attacked and their fellow villagers being killed by government militias . These boys fled, not knowing what they would encounter on the journey to escape the violence in their own country. Hungry, frightened, and weak from their long and hellish journey, the boys reached refugee camps outside of Sudan. Even though many young men were killed on their journeys to and from refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, many remained at these camps for numerous years. While in the camps, they heard news of an opportunity to travel to the United States for hope and a promise of a better life. In Mark Bixler’s The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of The Refugee Experience, Bixler depicts the story of these young men or Lost Boys’ and their determination to receive an education that would not only transform their lives but also the lives of their kinsmen.
Imagine, hot sand, no shoes, very little water, and starving in the desert with barely any hope for survival, this is what Salva had to go through everyday. Salva is a character that must endure these harsh problems in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk To Water. Salva is a young boy from Southern Sudan, who has to run away from his home and family because of the war. Salva must face many challenges that will make him stronger. The factors that were helpful for the survival of Salva in a harsh environment was a drive to find his family, he was quick witted, and his Uncle.
The Lost Boys of Sudan was about 17,000 boys. Some of the boys died of starvation hunger, dehydration or by getting eaten by animals during the journey to a place of safety. Although this may seem like a made-up story. it wasn’t. It was all real to salva, a lost boy in Sudan who survived the journey. This young boy (Salva) endured long walks to camps across the country, becoming a leader and making a positive impact on water in sudan which was a consistent struggle in Sudan. This boy has been written about in a book called “A Long Walk To Water” By Linda Sue Park. Salva’s life wasn’t easy as we read in the book. Salva has lived and survived with these survival factors: Hope, Persistent and Bravery.
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
An attention-grabbing story of a youngster’s voyage from end to end. In “A LONG WAY GONE,” Ishmael Beah, at present twenty six years old tells a fascinating story he had always kept from everyone. When he was twelve years of age, he escaped attacking the revolutionaries and roamed a land-living rendered distorted by violence. By thirteen, he’d been chosen up by the government military and Ishmael Beah at nature a gentle young boy, bring into being that he was accomplished of really dreadful deeds. Few days later on the rampage he is unrestricted by military and referred to a UNICEF rehabilitation centre, he wriggled to re-claim his humankind and to re-enter the biosphere of non-combatants, who seen him with terror and distrust . This is at preceding a story of revitalisation and hopefulness.
This leads Salva to his new family in New York, and finding his father in a clinic in Sudan. In conclusion, all of salva’s hardships and obstacles was caused by the war between the government and rebels, but it also led to Salva finding a new family in New York.
The external conflict changes sal because Since Sal’s mom has gone missing and never came back and might never come bake Sal has changed in many ways than she was before. She was able to handle more than she could before in the sense of emotion blows from external forces . One external force that in a major way is when Sal’s mother left sal and never came back. That made Sal feel depressed and sad. Sal even said that she was allergic to blackberries but she wasn’t they just reminded her of her mom and she was trying to stop thinking about her mom’s death and how she was never coming back. After that her dad kept chipping at the wall and he found a hidden fireplace. He showed Sal and she was surprised that was in the wall. Then the time came where Sal and her father moved to the city. The next external force that changed Sal was when her dad moved her to the city and she didn’t like it, because there was no swimming hole and it was not
Sal would rather be in Bybanks Kentucky than in Euclid Ohio. When Sal first goes to Ohio she obviously doesn't want to be there and wants to be by the trees. The second thing is that she found out is that her mother is dead and she will never see her again. The third thing is that she blames herself for her sibling's death (a miscarriage) because Sal fell out a tree and her mother carried her when she her mother was pregnant.
A Long Walk to Water is an engrossing true story about an African boy named Salva. It takes place in a war ravaged country named South Sudan. Soldiers scour the country, snatching children to join their ranks and burning villages in spite of the government. Salva manages to escape and join a herd of frightened people from his tribe. He encounters his uncle who quickly becomes leader of the group for having a gun and being related to the chief. Salva's uncle teaches him important lessons but meets his demise at the end of a soldier's gun. Later on in the book Salva has to become leader of a group of boys. Then a group of men. Salva shows many characteristics of being a good leader in these situations.
A Long Walk to Water is a Realistic Fiction book that can be about Determination and it is made by Linda Sue Park. Nya is the main female character, and she has to fetch water everyday and it takes 8 hours of the day to get water and come back. Nya sometimes has to move to a lake during dry season and still has to get water, Nya. also doesn’t get to go to school or learn. Salva is the main male character, the part where Salva lives has been having war and Salva has to get to a refugee camp in Ethiopia along the way Salva meets a boy named Mariel and he finds his uncle, he makes it to a camp but a couple years later the government is falling and they have to go to another camp. Later on Salva got to go to New York and live with a new family.
The environment made getting food and water very difficult. There is a lack of recourses in Sudan. Finding food was a regular struggle for Salva during his journey. He got so hungry that “he couldn't even talk, he was too weak and hungry”(24). Another dangerous part about the environment, or mother nature, was the lion country. Salva and his group had to travel through a hot area full of lions. The lions could have taken Salva, just like they took Marial. The lions were a large threat, “A lion had been hungry enough to approach the group as they slept”(40). They had made it out of lion country, but the next thing that they had to make it through was the Akobo desert. This desert was very hot, and had little to no water. This made it very difficult for continue on. There were also hurtful pants in the desert, like thorns, “Thorns gored his feet”(52). Mother nature made the journey very difficult for