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A Long Walk To Water By Linda Sue Park

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Challenges could be very hard to overcome if you don't have to right motivations. A Long Walk to Water is a half nonfiction and half historical fiction novel written by Linda Sue Park. The book is about a boy named Salva living in Southern Sudan. A war breaks out forcing him to flee Sudan. During his Journey, He meet friends who help him tremendously. He walks for several years and has been faced with many challenges just trying to survive. In the memuair, I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. by Malala. Malala’s education is gone because of the tailband takeover in her town of Swat.. She was not ok with not getting an education so she started to find ways to save her education. Salva and …show more content…

After getting to New York. He found out that his dad is still alive and back in sudan. He then decides that he needs to go back to sudan to see is dad. Theres still war in sudan so getting there wasn't easy. Once he got to sudan and saw his dad, He finds out that he’s sick because of the water. The water contained worms that stayed in his stomach which caused the illness. “An idea came to him, an idea of what he might do to help the people of Sudan” After hearing that he decides what hes gonna do, He decides that he wants to help the people of sudan and make there life better. Especially the water .After hearing that he decides what hes gonna do, He decides that he wants to help the people of sudan and make there life better. Especially the water. Another way someone used determination to over come her challenge was a girl named Malala. The taliban has just taken over Malala’s town of Swat, they have has shooting woman in schools to shut down there education. They believe that woman should not have an education. Some of the schools have been shutting down to save there students from getting shot. Malala was Devastated. She felt like she had nothing left. “ They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it’s at home, school, or somewhere else.” But she was determined to get her education. No matter what if it was at home, school or somewhere else. She’s getting her education, no matter what. But she was …show more content…

In the night, in the attot reign, Salva’s friend Marrilal was supposedly taken and eaten by lions. After hearing this Salva was terrified the whole day. He could barely walk. His uncle however, made sure he was ok and safe. He would talk to him in a steady low voice “ Salva, i will stay awake tonight and keep watch… Salva we will soon be out of lion country. Everything will be alright.” He would say things like, “ Salva i will stay awake tonight and keep watch.” or “ Salva,I have a gun, I will shoot any lion that comes near.” swearing that he will protect Salva no matter what happens. Sense the taliban took over, Malala started to blog about her life. She went under a fake name which was Gul Makai. She was doing this because the people in pakistan need help and the people outside of pakistan needed to know what was happing. It was also a good place for her to speak her mind because they cant track her by her name. Then something happened. A student named Shiza Shahid from Islmabad. She came from Stanford university and tracked them down by watching the New York times Class Dismissed in Swat Valley. Then proceed to take them with her to Islamabad. Letting her see what the world was like not in Swat town. We saw then the power of the media and she became a great support to us.” They went to see the sights of Islamabad. They went shopping to by school books and american tv programs she

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