Long Walk To Water Quotes

First, Salva joins another group of Dinka refugees to continue his journey. In the story, it says, ‘Then he caught up with the group, determined not to lag behind, not to complain, not to be trouble to anyone.’ (22) This shows that Salva is focused on his own survival and will do whatever it takes to make it to safety. Salva and others help Uncle Jewiir to build canoes to safely cross the river.

They were naive to the obvious neglect of the African American people evident in the Jim Crow Laws, which would soon be abolished in the mid 1960’s. After Leah and her family arrived in the Congo, she describes the scene as “hot, arid...” and “wreaking with the smell of urine”. This depiction brings a stark contrast to the cool afternoons spent in her hometown. She had already began to experience the effect of what felt like exile from her native home. Immediately she notices the “naked and malnourished” men, women, and children.

“Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.” Said Salva Dut, the founder of water for South Sudan, Inc. In a long walk to water by Linda Sue Park there is a true story about a man named Salva Dut.

In Peace Like A River, Leif Enger utilizes the chapter title, Boy Ready, to connect Davy’s situation to the constellation, also named Boy Ready, in the dark night sky. As the book progresses, Jape Waltzer explains to Reuben Land about a legend entitled Boy Ready. A quote from the book is “The boy charmed all with his bravery and wit and was adopted by the king himself and was wise and arms and letters; at last he became king himself and was wise and good”(268). But Waltzer revealed that the boy set the fire himself (268). The quote represents Davy’s life before Finch and Basca intruded into Davy’s personal life: His girlfriend, his family, and his house.

Salva survives the dangers of his journeys because of hard work, perseverance, and his relationships. Salva survives some of his challenges because of hard work.

He helped others in the sense of building over 240 wells giving people water. Water at this time was a resource valued as much as gold. He will always choose to persevere through the hard times. He even says, “I overcome all of the difficult situations of my past because of the hope and perseverance and hope that I had.” The ending of the novel is so perfect because it set’s the fireworks that the story has been building up, in terms of Salva meeting Nya.

Uncle and Marial died for Salva to find his family again. Salva shows types of hope to help him

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

Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk To Water. The first example of Perseverance is when Salva listens to what his uncle says. His uncle uses his full name, and Salva thinks of his family. Uncle tells him to only walk as far as that bush, or clump of rocks. Salva perseveres by thinking of his family.

To sum up, Salva did make it through the stressful journey, Salva has been back and forth visiting his biological family and his forster family that lives in New York.. This journey lead him to the person he is today by inspiring people to not give up on a dream or idea they had. Today Salva is continuing a program for South Sudan “ Water For South Sudan” which builds wells in different villages in South

The ferryman is somewhat responsible for what happens to the friends in the sacks, though it is an indirect association. Though he did take the creatures that were carrying the friends in sacks, he did not know what their intentions were or what was in the sacks until he had carried them all across and until carrying the second creature across, respectively. The ferryman most likely only realized what he had done after he carried the final creature across the river. In the quote, "It's a short trip and a fair price," the ferryman does not even know what the creatures are carrying in their bags. That is, of corse, is when he is greeting the second creature that he crosses the rive with.

Southern Sudan is an incredibly difficult place to live, with unbearable hot temperatures and lack of water. Many people in Sudan struggle each year just to stay alive. In Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Long Walk to Water, one character that struggles to make a life for herself in Sudan is Nya. Nya is a young Nuer girl living in a poor village with no plumbing or running water. Despite the harsh environment of Southern Sudan, Nya is able to survive due to her hard work and her family working together.

Salva, the main character in Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water is able to survive and overcome a variety of challenges through his hard work and relationships. Salva survives the first few challenges because of his hard work. “It was hard work running back and forth between those weaving,But Salva found that the work was helping him feel a little better” (43). This shows that salva is a helper and hard work because he help his Uncle Jewiir to build canoes.

A Long Way Gone is an autobiography that shows his younger days and the transition of him turning into a child solider. In the story the military uses tactics to manipulate the boys such as anger, drugs, and fear to transform the boys into being child soldiers. The military use anger to manipulate the boys by making the boys blame the rebels for everything “ Visualize the banana tree as the enemy, the rebels who killed your parent your family and those who are responsible for everything that happened to you” (112). With all the built up anger that the boys have it was easy for them to manipulate them because with the loss of their family and friends they already hate the rebels and having them stabbing the banana tree was a way for them to

The book “ A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park has some Real characters and then there is some fictional characters. It takes place in Southern Sudan a place battered with war. There is this boy who lives in the village named after his grandpa and the war comes to his village he is forced to flee the rest of the story is about his hard and long journey to safety. A personal journey is a journey where you are on a long adventure and you always seem to feel alone or working through things by yourself. These pieces of text evidence both have to do with my thesis because in both he feels so alone.