Sometimes determination and family can overcome your challenges. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is about a boy named Salva that is going through some challenges. He uses determination and his family to get over some of his challenges. He lives in Southern Sudan. A big challenge he faced was he had a war happening in his own town. He used his family to get through a few of his obstacles. He had a lot of obstacles he had to overcome on his journey. A girl named Malala lives in pakistan, she is eleven years old. She is trying to use determination and family to get through some of her biggest challenges. The Taliban is trying to take over pakistan and trying to take away school for girls. Malala was fighting for her education. Salva and Malala …show more content…
Malala and Salva use determination and family to help her get over her challenges. Malala is a girl who lives in Pakistan and the Taliban is trying to take over the girls' school. She is fighting for her education. “I told the documentary makers, “They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it's at home, school, or somewhere else. This is our request to the world- to save our schools, save our pakistan, save our swat.” Pakistan is being taken over by the Taliban, and they took down the girl school and destroyed the girls school, but yet the boys can still go to school. Malala is not very happy and it affects her because she can't go to school and she wants to be able to learn and for the Taliban closing the girls schools it represented a big cut in their income. All of Malala’s family’s school fees were overdue and her father spent the last days chasing money to pay the rent. She was determined that she disguised herself as another woman and would make blogs about how she felt, and she would not let anyone stop her. She was so determined that she even risked her life. “Marial and uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but