The book "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park explores the life of Salva, an 11-year-old boy living in South Sudan, after he is displaced by the Sudanese Civil War. First, in 1985, Salva and his classmates are instructed to run into the bush to escape the gunfire that was heard not far from the school. Then, he joins a group of travelers who are walking away from the war in Sudan, but they abandon him in a barn one evening while he is still asleep. After spending a few days with the barn's owner, Salva is sent away with a different group of travelers, must of whom accept him grudgingly. The group walks for a month toward Ethiopia, and eventually they arrive to the Itang refugee camp in Ethiopia.
Om-kas-toe was written by Kenneth Thomasma. It is about a mother that had twins, one boy and one girl. This was set in the early 1600s. The tribe had to leave the girl to die, but the parents refused to let the baby girl die. The twin’s names are Om-Kas –Toe, and Twin girl.
Brennon Morehead Mrs. Dose English 9 16 May 2023 Night Hoops by Carl Deuker My book was Night Hoops by Carl Deuker about a story of a freshman basketball player who is fighting for a spot on the varsity lineup and is continuously being benched due to poor performance. Even though he does poorly at the start of the season as it goes on he earns his varsity spot and gets to play with his two other freshman classmates Trent and Luke. But at the start of the book Nick's view of Trent was very different.
In this book by Steve Watkins, Juvie, Sadie Windas was stuck in a situation where she had to decide if she was willing to go to juvie for her sister after being involved, unintentionally, with drug trafficking with two guys that she met at a party. After having the perfect life for a very long time, it all went to waste. Sadie never let family issues get in the way, but her sister Carla had ruined that for her. Sadie decides to go to juvie was a bittersweet situation. It was a bad thing that she had gone to juvie for her sister because she now had a criminal record that would complicate her life whenever she would try to apply to a college or any job.
People in Southern Sudan have dirty water, wild animals, the many wars and a lot more hardships they need to face. In the book “A long walk to water” by: Linda Sue Park, is a book that takes place in Southern Sudan and features all the hardships Salva and Nya had to face while living there such as wild animals, wars, fights through tribes, lack of water and food. Hardships Salva faced in Southern Sudan are lack of water/ food, the wild animals, and the fighting/ war. One of the hardships Salva had to face in Southern Sudan is lack of water and food. In chapters 3-4 Salva had gotten water from a woman older than Salva’s mother that he had met after he was left alone, the woman gave Salva a gourd of water and a bag of raw peanuts.
Imagine you’re Salva, attending school and suddenly hearing a gunshot. The story “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park, tells about the journey of a young boy named Salva, living in a village called Loun-Ariik, located in Southern Sudan. Southern Sudan was in the middle of a war, this is one of the hardships Salva faced, along with lack of water, and lack of food. One day while Salva was in school, he heard a gunshot. He runs to a near bush, and this is what begins his long walk.
Action is Louder than Words “Good heavens, Adam, we declared ourselves. There just is no stronger declaration of a man’s purpose than to take a gun and shoot someone dead” (Fast 159). April Morning is written by Howard Fast. It is about a boy named Adam Cooper fighting for his manhood and trying to survive the beginning of the American Revolution.
In the historical fiction novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, a boy named Salva escaped from his village after the rebels attacked. Before the rebels took over Salva’s village he went to school everyday. Each day after school his mother would always be waiting for him at home with a bowl of warm milk. In the historical fiction novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis, a girl named Parvana lived in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the Taliban rule. Before the Taliban took over Parvana’s town, it was a very beautiful city with restaurants, movie theaters, and shops.
“Sober Song” by Barton Sutter is arranged as a free verse poem with a rhyme scheme pattern within every other line. This poem describes a man saying his goodbyes to the memories he has had with alcohol. The poem’s beat and rhythm reminds the reader of a broken love song to the liquor that had once taken over his life. In lines in 1 through 4, we have a special pattern displayed not only in these lines, but throughout the entire poem.
Wallence, David Foster, “This Is Water”. Kenyon College Commencement Speech, 2005. In “This is Water”, the author David Foster Wallance introduces the idea of people being concern of what is revolving around them, causing the individual to avoid the fact they are responsible of their own actions and thoughts. In the process, Wallance claims that people live their life the way they think they should, because it has come to a point that everything they do becomes a routine.
Challenges could be very hard to overcome if you don't have to right motivations. A Long Walk to Water is a half nonfiction and half historical fiction novel written by Linda Sue Park. The book is about a boy named Salva living in Southern Sudan. A war breaks out forcing him to flee Sudan.
The purpose of “Why, You Reckon?” by Langston Hughes is to accurately display, through the times of that century and human emotion, that despite money, power, and the color of your skin there can still be an unhappiness of the soul. There is evidence in the beginning of the short story of two men’s unhappiness in life the symbol of them being uncontent was their hunger. “Man, ain’t you hongry.... Well, sir, I’m tellin’ you, I was so tired and hongry and cold that night.” (253- 254).
The food availability, safe water access, and medical treatment in Sudan is much different than what is available in the United States. Currently in South Sudan, around forty eight percent of children are underweight, and only twenty seven percent of all people in Sudan have access to safe drinking water. In the book A Long Walk To Water written by Linda Sue Park, the main characters Salva and Nya struggle to survive. However, Salva and Nya both show hope as they carry on through Sudan's water crises, food shortages, and medical emergencies. Sudan has had many wars over the last few decades, resulting in around two million people to be displaced from their families.
Is the U.S Education failing students? Many can agree to it based on a variety of factors. Poverty and parenting are big reasons why a student may not perform academically well. In the memoir Holler If You Hear Me by Gregory Michie, it revolves around a teacher that details his experiences teaching in the west side of Chicago and the impact of poverty and racism that it has on his students. Throughout the memoir, parent involvement and poverty play significant roles in the academic performance of his students.
This poem uses alliteration,imagery,figurative language,assonance,rhyme and rhythm to capture you all the way to the
