Jiraiya ZIza Cal State ELA. 10/4/24 M 1 U 2 Compare and Contrast Essay Linda Sue Parks?A Long Walk to Water? alters and uses history in her novel about the second Sudanese civil war. For example, Park?s novel and another article that writes on the same topic called,?The Lost Girls Of Sudan? discuss similar topics, such as the effect that the Sudanese Civil War had on Sudanese children. In the first chapter of?A Long Walk To Water? The novel describes the main character Salva running away from home when the war starts. The Lost Girls of Sudan? describes how? ?thousands of children had to run away from their homes because of the war?. The article and novel both share the history of children running from their homes due to the Sudanese Civil War. Both of these texts describe to the reader how some of the children that were lost to the war were relocated to the United States. In "A Long Walk To Water" In chapter 14, page 89, the novel describes how Salva, one of the lost children of Sudan, was relocated to the United States. There it was Salva Dut- Rochester, New York. He was going to America! In?The Lost Girls of Sudan? the article tells us how groups of boys were …show more content…
In?The Lost Girls Of Sudan? the article tells us that?Just before the entrance of Kakuma Refugee Camp in the desert of Northern Kenya, a billboard proclaims,? Women's rights are human rights. While in Linda Sue Park's novel, when the main character Salva Dut reaches the same destination, there is no mention of the billboard that was written in?The Lost Girls Of Sudan?. Another altar of history is the separation between boys and girls when they arrived at Kakuma refugee camp. The Lost Girls Of Sudan? informs us about girls and boys being separated in the refugee camp. In?A Long Walk To Water?, the novel fails to mention any separation between boys and girls that arrived at Kakuma refugee