Parvana And Salva Character Analysis

Salva and Parvana, the brave and heroic protagonists in A Long Walk To Water and The Breadwinner, have more similarities than differences. Some of these similarities are, they are both courageous. Salva is courageous because he was able to swim through the river unscathed braving the current, the crocodiles, and the hail of bullets shot by the Ethiopian soldiers. Parvana was brave when she attacked Taliban soldiers on three separate occasions first when she attacked two soldiers to protect her fathers books, the second when at the prison when she protected her self and her mother and the third was in the market. A second similarity is that they both are able to keep moving forward no matter what happens, Salva shows this when he led dozens of boys across hundreds of miles of desert to safety, during this journey he experiences terrible pain, including his toe nails falling of but despite all this he pulled through and led those boys. Yet another similarity was that they both saw and experienced things that forced them to grow up to fast, like Salva who saw dead bodies decaying in the desert and people being dragged away and killed by crocodiles, other than this he lost so many people along the way like his best friend

For example Salva is a guy from Sudan in South Africa, whilst Parvana is a girl from Afghanistan in the Middle East. What I felt was particularly glaring difference was that While Parvana had access to food, water, and shelter, While Salva did not have access to any of them. Another difference was their goals. Salva’s main goals was being reunited with his family, get to the refugee camp and escape the civil war. Parvana on the other hand wanted to help her family by coming the breadwinner and hopefully reunite with her father.Despite a few differences, Salva and Parvana, who are both resilient and daring, have far more in