Recommended: Beginning of Salva's journey
He worked thirteen weeks since Thanksgiving, which is about seventy-eight days, equalling $117 a year. This was less than he would usually produce working full time. Working full time allowed him to work fifteen weeks a year, foraging about $133. He paid a weekly amount of $1.50 for his small house, and had to conserve every other penny for necessary needs. He would frequently hunt for clams to feed his family and would gather wood by the shore.
It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey.” Another example is “ So he had to shake the fear of to continue the journey” These examples prove that Salva was determined because he knew that his family would want him to make the trip.
The third and final piece of evidence is that when Slava has dreams of going to america but does not speak english, he finds and aid worker who teaches him how to speak the language. This shows that because of his relations, Slava overcomes a problem that he normally could not conquer himself. So the second factor that led to Slava’s survival is his relations with other
“None of the travelers had money or anything of value to trade, so they had to beg for food” (47).This show that Salva is worrying to ask people for food but he is willing to walk around and ask people for food. This is not easy because when you ask people, you never know if they are
Salva gets water and does housework for the old woman he considers family. In the text it states “He worked hard so she would not send him away.” (18) Salva worked hard, to have a place to stay during the fighting. Salva helped with the boats so he could get over the river faster. The text explains “It was hard work running back and forth between those cutting and those weaving.”
Salva is a part of a traditional tribal culture. He is a part of the Dinka tribe, enemies of the Nuer tribe. “Men and boys were hurt or even killed when [Dinka and Nuer] clashed.” (A Long Walk to Water
Even while Salva “fights his demons” he decides to keep walking instead of giving up. Themes from the book such as persistence and perseverance save his life and thus influence his choices as the book progresses. Additionally, Nya chose to keep fetching water for her family, despite the long dangerous path that she had to make every day while barefoot. Her perseverance as well as her determination for her family led to people such as her dad drilling a well in their village, not only helping their family, but also the lives of others. Salva on the other hand embarked on a journey with his uncle and complete strangers.
This was only possible because the group’s perseverance and they worked through their troubles. In conclusion, we should all persevere like Salva and Nya and we will be rewarded. In the end, Salva makes his dream a reality and Nya gets clean water and can go to school, but only because they worked hard to do whatever they needed to
Once he raised enough money and was able to acquire a team of workers he built wells for the villagers in Sudan. This caused children like Nya, a young girl who lived with the Nuer tribe, (the enemy of Dinka) Nya was not able to attend school due to her daily job of walking to get water for eight hours a day. After Salva installed the wells girls like Nya were able to attend school just like the boys in her village. The text states, “Why would a dinka bring water to us?” She wondered aloud.
Salva was thrown straight on into the Sudanese war to fend for himself, so he was all alone without his family. Later on Salva realizes what has happened
While his uncle was alive, he helped Salva do everything throughout the journey. Even when he died nobody forgot him and Salva’s memory of his loving uncle gave him the strength to finish the journey. Food and water was the most important factor that led to his survival. He knew that there was barely any water in the desert and that it was hard to find food which taught him to treasure everything he was given. Throughout the book we are led to believe that Salva’s parents and siblings had passed away but he never lost hope that they were still alive.
He was given shelter to live in near the fields. But this shelter was constructed out of mud and straw and was very shoddy and
To begin with, Salva was determined to make it out alive while walking through the Akobo Desert. Uncle told Salva that it would take three days to go through the scrub terrain of the Akobo Desert, Salva was determined to go through the desert with very little water from his gourd. Uncle was warning Salva that crossing the Akobo Desert would be a difficult terrain to survive because there was barely any food to survive of, it was almost as
(pg 73) This shows that Salva is persevering because even though he hates the refugee camp, he
As a result, he has to ask his aunt for money and hitchhike in order to continue his journey. He doesn’t want to work at all, but admires how the Fellaheen people, the farmers, approach life. In other words, Sal is beaten down because he lacks resources to travel. In the third part of the novel, when Dean Moriarty meets Sal again, he is going through a pretty difficult time and says: “And yet-and yet, I’ve never felt better and finer and happier with the world and to see lovely little children playing in the sun and I am so glad to see you, my fine gone wonderful Sal, and I know, I know everything will be all right.” (175).
