Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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An 11 year old boy named Salva was detached from his family during the war in Sudan. And ever since then he learned ways of survival and leadership, and he was part of the Dinka tribe. Salva is trying to stay away from the war and go to a safe part of South Africa, he went to ethiopia first to start his long survival. “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park.

Salva is very lucky to be alive from half the things he has been threw. He has many challenges he faces in his journey, and a few include running away from the the war as an 11 year old boy, crossing the nile river and not having a stable boat for everyone in his group, and being chased out of his camp he was at for six years.

The first challenge Salva faced in the book was when he was in school and everyone was just sitting there listening to the teacher and they all hear gunshots, and the teacher says the war is coming towards them so the teacher insists they run over to the bush and keep going and don’t turn around to go home. Salva, when he gets to the bush he wanted to turn around so bad but he just listened to what his teacher said. Pg. 6 …show more content…
So people came up with an idea to make papyrus boats, and people starting picking the papyrus weeds out of the river to create boats. The boats they ended up creating were not very big, so only about two people could fit inside them and the boats were quickly made so they wouldn’t last very long and they had to rush across the river to get to safety. Pg.

Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

In the middle of the book, A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, the author's tone is miserable. Salva was on his long walk to a place without war and this day just happens to be not so great. That day was really hot and in the text, it stated, “Each minute of walking in the arid heat felt like an hour.” This shows that Salva was miserable because it was so hot that day of walking. Later on in the text it talked about how Salva had water but he was annoyed that he couldn’t drink a lot of it, like…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

Can you imagine how hard it is to walk for so long, day after day, without food or water. A Long Walk To Water, by Sue Park, has to do with survival because both main characters of both stories struggle to survive. My definition of survival is being able to live pass hard obstacles and come out of them stronger than ever. According to Webster’s Dictionary, Survival means “ The state or fact of continuing to live or exist under difficult circumstances. Being able to survive isn’t as easy as some…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

“There are all these moments you think you won't survive, and then you survive.” A Long Walk To Water, Linda Sue Park. The factors that made survival possible for Salva were Persistence, Famiy, and Hard Working. An important factor that helped salva survive was persistence. Salva needed to walk across the desert in order to get to the refugee camp and there was a lot of challenges. “The worst moment of the day, Salva stubbed his toe on a rock.” Salva kept going even when he didn’t want to…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

In the book, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, the main character, a lad named Salva, learns that when you have enough hope and perseverance, anything's possible. The story is mainly about how Salva survives an escape from war, and how he led twelve hundred boys to Kenya's refugee camps. It was really difficult, yet Salva overcame all these challenges. One of the earliest challenges that Salva faces, is that he becomes separated from his family due to war, and has no adult looking after him…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

each character is molded. In A Long Walk to Water, the author, Linda Sue Park, describes two characters, Salva and Nya. Salva was a desperate boy who trailed through the scorching desert under the persistent hammering of the fireball up above and finally ended up in a futureless refugee camp. Nya was a young girl who was forced to walk miles and miles from her dry home to bring back a necessity for life, water. In the novel, harsh environments change and shape the natures of the two characters. As…

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Character Analysis: Long Walk To Water

miles to find a safe place, no car, no tech, just known routes to look forward to. Many tell stories about their journey, there reasons why they're still alive to this day. The stories are told by to people, Salva, and Nya the main characters in the book Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park. Nya and Salva has faced many dangers and lose. Salva travels to lion country with Uncle and Marial, the lion country is very dangerous and known for its large population for lions. Uncle has a gun but Marial…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

The author of the book A Long Walk To Water has a tone for Salva, a very interesting one. Salva’s tone is miserable, Salva is just miserable out there in the wild and he justs want to be with his family, quite frankly that's all Salva wants, is to be with his family. I know Salva is miserable because he said even taking a sip of water was miserable, “taking only tiny sips, when his body cried out for huge gulps of thirst-quenching, life-giving, water.” When Salva was walking in the desert he claimed…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

book, A Long Walk to Water, there are 2 characters who face their own challenges differently. The first character in the book has the name of Salva Dut. The setting of the book starts in Sudan with Salva at school when suddenly the refuge soldiers come and attack his village. In the middle of this attack Salva loses his family. He has to face the challenge of being alone in the desert at only the age of 10. He now is in the desert alone with only a couple of people, with no food or water. Salva spends…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

A Long Walk To Water Assessment In the story “ A Long Walk To Water” by “ Lisa Sue Park” is a story about a boy name Salva Mawiien Dut Ariik who is 11 years old. Salva had a very rough life. Here we go, Salva is now in his mid 20’s because this explains his life all through the years and how he had to survive. Salva concures two factor that helped him survive through his journey. Those two survival factors are Bravery and Strength. Salva had to fight on his journey and walk and run…

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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

In A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park, the character Salva Dut survives many challenges using different techniques. In the novel Salva has to face many difficulties which has hugely affected his life, Salva carries himself through these difficulties using his perseverance and having hope along with many other components. Salva story began when his school and villages near were attacked in 1985, Salva tries his best to escape from the uprising war and tries his best to stay alive. While doing…

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