Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

Salva had faced many challenges for instance, most the time he was on the line of starvation, and dehydration. He didn’t have food for about a week at one point and almost collapsed to the ground, he had to get honey out of a beehive with vicious bees constantly stinging them. Although he was starving that little glob of honey satisfied him well, because it could keep him going longer, as he enjoyed the honey in his stomach. In A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the author tells the story of two children. A girl who gets water every day at a pond and walks for hours so her family can live off the water, and a boy who got separated from his family and must go on an torturous journey. Both these characters show ways of survival and

Salva also didn’t give up when he barely could move because of his lack of energy. Another point in the novel Salva made it to a camp that would take care of his needs (shelter, food, water, warmth, cloths). Years later he is forced to leave the camp and chased into the Gilo river. The Gilo river contains alligators, and the men who chased them were trying to shoot them with guns, there was also a large possibility that they could have drowned. You would have to be brave to jump into a river with alligators eating children, and kids being shot and floating down the river right before your eyes. Although Salva he was brave he has to be intelligent for him to surive the challenges that he faced. In the novel its states, "... Salva had become leader of about 1500 boys. Some as young as five years old" (Park 80). Salva carried the group of the lost boys to safety, with only a few dead. During this time they had stepped up to be the leader giving everyone equal food and making the larger boys carry the little kids with not enough energy. This shows Salva is intelligence because he almost all the children. He does this by giving all the children and boys equal food and making the larger boys carry the

During this time he determined because he could have easily just give up stop looking for food, forget about the boys he is leading, but he didn't he was patient and helped everybody. While Salva world's leading The Lost Boys to safety he must care for them equally so they can survive. This would be hard for Selva because there are so many and he must help them find food stay warm not starve to death not dehydrate not get injured not get eaten by prey ect. Determination is a strong point during this time because he must stay determined to bring the lost boys to safety not to lead them the wrong way not to abandon them not to leave them on their own.Even though the determination that Salva possessed had a great impact on him, it was all three qualities, being brave, intelligent, and determine, as well as the many other qualities combined that brought him to safety and found his family. In conclusion, Salva was a character in the book who constantly struggled to survive the terrible challenges of living in harsh climate of south Sudan. During this time he tries to outrun the war while looking for his family, because they got seperated by the war. He has been running through extreme heat and facing dehydration, However he survived mostly because of his