A Long Walk To Water Quotes

Imagine a daunting journey, through hostile environments. There is a war over religion splitting up Sudan. Rebel soldiers are fighting the government, and people are being displaced from the homes and families. This describes the experience of Salva, a 12 year old boy from the novel A Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue park. In this novel individuals have to face challenging terrain and dangerous routes against the odds of survival. Main character, Salva Dut, was able to survive through an extremely challenging journey because of his support of family, and friends, and his self determination. Salva’s survival of the journey was unlikely, but against the odds, he survived. One component to Salva’s survival was the support of his family. One problem that Slava faced
The factor that helped Salva to survive, was the fact that his Uncle Jewiir finds hims among the group of people. Linda Sue Park writes “‘Salva!’ the man said… ‘Uncle!’ he cried out… ‘Eh, Nephew’ he said… ‘We are together now, so I will look after you!’” (34-35). This quote shows that Salva was alone before he found Uncle Jewiir, but after he found him he felt better. Another challenge that Salva faced was when the group was walking in the desert, and Salva stubbed his toe on a rock, and wanted to give up. But, Uncle Jewiir gave Salva inspirational words, that motivated him. A quote from the novel A Long Walk to Water says “Salva stubbed his bare toe on a rock, and his whole toenail came off. The pain was terrible… He lowered his head, and tears began to flow… ‘Do you see that group of bushes?’ Uncle said… ‘You need only to walk as far as those bushes.” (Park 53-54). This quote shows that Salva was able to endure the pain of stubbing his toe and continue on with his journey because of the motivational words from Uncle Jewiir.