A Long Walk to Water

Posted on 06 August 2018 by Linda Sue Park

A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985 The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours walk from her home she makes two trips to the pond every day The boy, Salva, becomes one of the lost boys of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya s in an astonishing and moving way. Best Download [ A Long Walk to Water ] Author [ Linda Sue Park ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I need only to get through the rest of this day This day and no otherWhere there is a child, there is always joy I always thought this was true but the story told otherwise This is a true to life story of Salva, an 11 year old boy who found little to almost no place in a world where people struggle to survive an almost endless series of conflicts during the Second Sudanese Civil War that started in 1983 To adults caught in a tumultuous succession of life threatening obstacles, SalvaI need only to get through the rest of this ...Quick read good for multiple ability levels.This book should be an easy inclusion into 7th grade Geography, 6th grade world history, or as an addition to a Holocaust unit This is how I plan to use it with my 7th grade reading teacher For younger readers, this book may encourage a class to adopt a project to help bring water to children their age in other places in the world.Book is told...There are some stories that need to be told regardless of how sad or horrifying they might be The challenge becomes even harder when the stories are being told to children How much should one include What details are necessary and what can be left out without changing the story too much And what about stories that involve extreme violence and severe suffering How best to tell the story These questions can be debated over and over again because there is no one right answer No two authors w There are some stories that need to be told regardless of how sad or horrifying they might be The challenge becomes even harder when the stories are being told to children How much should one include What details are necessary and what can be left out without changing the story t...This novel is divided into two alternating narratives that come together in the end In brown print is the story, set in 2008, of Nya, a young girl from Sudan who has to walk 8 hours round trip to fetch water every day, twice a day In black print is the story of Salva, a young Sudanese boy whose village is attacked by the rebels in 1985 and who ends up fleeing across the desert to a refugee camp in Ethiopia After witnessing many horrors, he and other lost boys, homeless...Absolutely an astonishing story that I believe can inspire anyone at any age When you ve read about Nya and Salva s dilemmas in life, you really can t say your life is not good Ask yourself this Is it really miserable, or are you just not being grateful of what you have What inspired me the most was the fact that Salva had kept hope and perseverance throughout this dangerous and terrible life He was able to find a four leaf clover in forest His uncle s strategy of solving problems and reac Absolutely an astonishing story that I believe can inspire anyone at any age When you ve read about Nya and Salva s dilemmas in life, you really can t say your life is not good Ask yourself this Is it really miserable, or are you just not being grateful of what you ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here After I read this book, I realized how sad or poor many other places in the world was While I was at home, playing games or eating amazing food, there were people starving and dying War Death Friends There were many sad moments, but in the end, it was happy It taught me many things, like how if you keep on trying you will succeed Salva kept on trying, and eventually made it to both of the camps He also kept on trying to raise money for Sudan after he got to America, and he eventu...After reading this book, I felt like my heart was pierced by an arrow, right in the center, bulls eye The story was sad, but in the end, it was a happy ending There was one part that I thought was most heartbreaking If you read this book, you might remember It was the part when Salva s uncle getting shot by the burglars, by his own gun in the desert And the most irritating part is that they laughed they laughed They just killed someone In the beginning, I thought it was inhuman But af After reading this book, I felt like my heart was pierced by an arrow, right in the center, bulls eye The story was sad, but in the end, it was a happy ending There was one part that I thought was most heartbreaking If you read this book, you might remember It was the part when Salva s uncle getting shot by the burglars, by his own gun in the desert And the most irritating part is that they laughed they laughed They just killed someone In the beginning, I thought it was inhuman But after I got to know a little about the history and culture of Sudan, I learned that it was normal I became heart repaired in the end because, in the beginning, all the way to the end, it was mostly sad and fist clenching stories Nya s tiring l...You should start by first knowing that the book is a children s book otherwise the writing style will be off putting It is a heart wrenching story of a boy Salva who is separated from his parents during the religious war between Arab Africans and Africans in Sudan He joins a group and they first try to make their way to Ethiopia where they are chased off by soldiers and forced to jump into a lake filled with crocodiles He then spends a year and a half with a group headed for Kenya then Am You should start by first knowing that the book is a children s book otherwise the writing style will be off putting It is a heart wrenching story of a boy Salva who is separated from his parents during the religious war between Arab Africans and Africans in Sudan He joins a group and they first try to make their way to Ethiopia ...The long civil war in Sudan destroyed the country and devastated its people Park alternates the stories of two Sudanese children, one a Lost Boy, forced to flee his village during an attack and seek refuge in Ethiopia, and a young girl who walks for miles each day to collect water for...

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06 August 2018

Linda Sue Park