Long Walk To Water By Linda Sue Park

The book Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park where a young boy named Salva walks across South Sudan during a civil war and eventually he gets to the United States and helps South Sudan by planting wells across the country. The poem “Lost boys of Sudan” is by Leslie Lane. Many young boys survive walking for hundreds of miles through disease, war and starvation to live, but their lives will never be the same again. The theme of both texts is in the face of obstacles, maintain perseverance in order to overcome them. Though both texts present the common theme in similar ways, there are also differences in their approach and development. The book and the poem address the common theme of in the face of obstacles, maintaining perseverance in order to overcome them. One similarity is the kids had to walk across

Another similarity between the two is the courage and hard work that got the boys through the terrible conditions they had to walk through. According to the poem “Yet the courage these boys have inside them never seems to fail.” (lines 15 and 16) This shows that the boy's courage helped them overcome the obstacles to get away from the war. While there are similarities between the texts, there are also differences. One difference in the theme between the book and the poem is the poem doesn’t have a main character, while the book has a main character who is Salva. According to the book “He ran until he could not run anymore”. Then he walked.”(pg 9) This shows that the book focuses on Salva while the poem focuses on all the boys. Another difference between the book and the poem is that the book tells us the details of what happened to Salva, but the poem