People face difficult challenges every day. But, hundreds of Kilometres deep into an untamed forest, Salva, in the novel “A Long Walk To Water” makes due, and survives the northern Sudanese attacks. With Salva’s determination, he manages to escape to the bush and starts his long walk to refuge. Salva’s immense courage helped him to survive, and his compassion allowed him to supply water to his enemies. It is this three traits-determination, courage and compassion that got him through the challenges he faced. Firstly his determination, with Salva’s determination, he manages to escape to the bush, and begin his long walk to refuge. At the beginning of the book ‘A Long Walk To Water’ Salva calmed himself down to focus, think and escape “Boom! Salva turned and looked. Behind him, a huge black cloud of smoke… Salva lowered his head and ran”(Park pg 8, 11) In addition, even after his best friend Marial passed he kept walking, and walking. Lowering his head, and thinking straight, shows his ability to calm himself down and persevere. …show more content…
Without his courage, he might have never joined the group, nor survived by not going out of the barn and talking to the old woman. “A woman sitting in the sun… He walked towards her”(Park pg 15, 16) he was delighted to find out she was friendly, but even more so, that he was no longer alone. Those are just a few ways Salva’s courage brought him that much closer to