Imagine you’re Salva, attending school and suddenly hearing a gunshot. The story “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, tells about the journey of a young boy named Salva, living in a village called Loun-Ariik, located in Southern Sudan. Southern Sudan was in the middle of a war, this is one of the hardships Salva faced, along with lack of water, and lack of food. One day while Salva was in school, he heard a gunshot. He runs to a near bush, and this is what begins his long walk. While he is walking, he is kicked out of the group he was in, for being a possible burden, and being too young. He also loses his only friend, Mariel, to a lion attack. Then, after finding his uncle, he loses him to violence. Salva also had very little water access,