In 2014 Salvas foundation Water for South Sudan has drilled more than 200 wells for the tribes. The book's name is A Long Walk to Water. The author of the book is Linda Sue Park. The war in sudan started in 1983 and ended in 2005. The war killed at least 2 million people and left many people homeless without any place to go or anyone to go to for help. Salva is a survivor because he didn't get defeated by any of the animals, he almost got killed many times, and because his environment was very harsh.
One factor that proved Salva is a survivor is because he didn't get defeated by all of the animals he crossed on his journey. Many people died while trying to cross the river because of the vicious crocodiles eating them and trying to kill them. “Later, he would learn that at least a thousand people had died trying to cross the river that day, drowned or shot, or attacked by .crocodiles”(79). Salva also had to deal with all of the mosquitoes by the river,
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One of the things he had to do was walk through the desert. The desert is very intense and he and the other boys in the group had to walk through it with almost no water and caused severe pain, “the pain was terrible. Salva tried to bite his lip but the awfulness of that never ending day was too much for him”(53). The second way that the environment was very harsh was because he wanted to back to sudan but he couldn't because there was still bombs and shootings everywhere so he struggled to lead the group safely back, “They were traveling through a part of sudan still plagued by war”(80). The last way that proves that the environment was very harsh to the group is the heat “The first day in the desert felt like the longest day Salva had ever lived through. The sun was relentless and eternal”(52). The whole group had to suffer through the intense heat for many days in the desert as they were walking through the