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Character Analysis: A Long Walk To Water

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In the book,”A Long Walk to Water,” by Linda Sue Park, Nya and Salva are mainly affected by the places around them the most.Nya and her family move just to be able to have water.Nya has to walk to get water every day.Salva has to leave his home just because of the war.Salva also has to run away to seek shelter and safety almost dying every time.

First, The water shortage in Nya’s village affected her life.”Every year when the rivers stopped and the pond near the village is dried up, Nya’s family moved away from their home to a camp near a big lake.” Nya’s family moved every year just to be able to have water to drink, leaving their home and moving away. “To the pond and back-to-the pond and back nearly a full day of walking altogether.” This was Nya’s daily routine, even after her family moved away from their home.She would have to walk on a big thorny path two times a day, stopping only to eat lunch. …show more content…

He can't go home or back to Ethiopia because he will get shot.”Salva can't go home or back into Ethiopia because of the war.So Salva is forced to find a place to go to like a refugee camp or he will die.”Salva felt as if he had been walking for hours while staying in exactly the same spot.” Salva is in the desert on his way to Ethiopia and it is so hot out there that he doesn’t even have to move an inch to feel like someone had drained all of his energy.

Lastly, Salva moved to the United States and it changed his life for the better.Salva was one of the boys chosen to go to America.Salva was in a refugee camp they were choosing young healthy boys to go to America and be adopted.They had posted a list on a tent and Salva was on the list the third day. “Leaving the airport felt like leaving his old life forever, Sudan, his village, his family.”Salva believed that his family was dead, but it didn’t matter he had a new family to love him.Just as his old family

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The first big problem he deals with is thinking his family is dead in this war and not being with them (Park, 22). The second big problem is Salva losing the close people he was with like his only friend Marial (Park, 40) and Salva's uncle (Park, 63). The next problem is when Salva had a near-death experience (Park, 78,79). The last problem is when Salva had to deal with terrible refugee camps (Park, 84). Even with all of these issues (and more), Salva continued his journey and persevered as by the end of the book, he was in a good situation, living in New York City (Park, 98, 99), performing talks for his company (Park, 109) and being the CEO of a company that was helping South Sudanese villages with their water problems (Park, 115).

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