Ethan ReinhartMrs. Murry English 909 February 2017The Deadly walk to Safety Having to survive through animals, Living in America and getting used to the changes, and the hardships of traveling through deserts and to refugee camps. Salva Dut definitely proved that he was a survivor. This Paper is from the book “A long Walk to Water” written by Linda Sue Parks. The main character Salva Dut, who was eleven year old boy when the war was brought to him. Living in his home village of Loun-Ariik he had to escape out into the wild or “run into the bushes” as his teacher told him during one fateful school day after hearing gunshots and fighting. As soon as he ran out of the school, he ran as hard as he could away from home and then having to experience the terror and hardships of living in the wild with dangerous animals, and the loss of many family and friends. There were many dangerous …show more content…
Before all that happened Salva had to somehow survive the deadly Akobo desert. Just barely having enough water to survive the endless hot sandy terrain and sunny heat. As the group was bearing the heat they come across dying men lying in the sand because of lack of water. Only four men survived because already five men died from dehydration. “Like a miracle, the small amounts of water received them. They were able to stagger to their feet and join the group as the walking continued”(58). After they were chased out of the refugee camp Salca spent a year and a half of his life leading a group of fifteen hundred boys to a refugee camp in Kenya for safety but once they arrived they didn’t feel so welcome. “Kakuma had been a dreadful place, isolated in the middle of a dry, windy desert. Tall fences of barbed wire enclosed the camp; you weren’t allowed to leave unless you were going for good. It almost felt like a prison”(84). So he set off for another refugee camp but the living conditions weren’t any better at the camp in Ifo. “Everyone was always hungry, and there was never enough