Nya In Linda Sue Park's A Long Walk To Water

Because of how the settings’ affected the character Nya in A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, the book displays the fight against one’s environment. To begin with, the dirty water which Nya and her village drank from every day made Nya’s little sister, Akeer, ill. When Nya and her family were at the health clinic, “‘Her sickness came from the water,’ the nurse explained. ‘She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it for a count of two hundred before she drinks it,’” (Park 45). As a result of Akeer having to drink boiled water, Nya would have to make numerous trips to the pond in a day. This would weaken her because before, even with having only 2 trips to the pond, she would be exhausted. Consequently, the number of trips that Nya would make to the pond would diminish. This would be unfavorable for her family, as a family has many needs for water. To list some, bathing, cooking, drinking, and farming.
Next, because of Nya’s geological location, her family has to walk for days to get to an infirmary. In the village, “Nya’s uncle, the chief of their village, knew of a
As the author explained, “They had been lucky all these years. No one from Nya’s family had been hurt or killed by Dinka. But she knew other families in the village who has lost their loved ones this way,” (Park 34). As a consequence of them living by the Dinka, there is a high chance that men could die. Because men are favored more than women in the book, if her dad or uncle is killed, the death is likely to make life harder for Nya. This event would also lead her family to lower social status. Life would get incredibly difficult them because they would have fewer people to do daily tasks. All these incidents would lead her to a state of melancholy and the downfall of her family. Overall, the setting of the novel generates conflicts for the characters, which establishes characters’