Chapter 11 Nya: Southern Sudan, 2008The villagers begin the task of clearing the land between the two trees. Nya continues to travel to the pond, twice each day. As the clearing grows larger, Nya asks Dep how there could be water where the earth is dry and hard as rock. He shakes his head, sharing her doubt.
Uncle Jewiir, the uncle of Salva Dut, is a former South Sudanese soldier. However, he's later murdered by soldiers from the North. Jewiir's death is a traumatic event for Salva, who is forced to fend for himself and beg for food without Jewiir to protect him.
Chapter 14, Salva: Ifo refugee camp, Kenya, 1991–96
After two years, Salva left Kakuma and walked with a group of men for months to camp Ifo. Here, they found the conditions much the same as at Kakuma. Strong and healthy, Salva wants to work and save money. But with no work available, all he can do is wait.How did Nya remove the thorn? She picked it out with her fingers.She used a hairpin to pick it out. She used another thorn to pick it out.
Salva finally went over to speak to the older woman sitting outside. The woman wasn't really his Aunt, but calling someone Auntie was a term of endearment or kindness in his culture. The woman said, "You must be hungry" and then she walked away and came back a few minutes later with two handfuls of raw peanuts.
What does the old woman give Salva before he leaves with the others? She gives him peanuts.
Salva feels that everything is upside down, because the old woman asks him how he will find his family. She is an adult, but she only has questions instead of answers. Salva works very hard so that the old woman will not send him away.
A Long Walk to Water CharactersA young boy, Marial is Salva Dut's only friend early on in the refugee crisis, who mysteriously disappears, possibly because he's eaten by a lion. The older brother of Nya. An Irish aid worker who teaches Salva Dut how to read and write English, and how to play volleyball.
Southern Sudan, 1985: Salva knows he has been left because he was a child. He sees a woman outside the barn and recognizes that she is from his tribe because she has the Dinka scar pattern on her face. The woman feeds him and lets him stay in her barn.
Southern Sudan, 1985
Salva realizes Marial has been killed by a lion and he becomes fearful, clinging to Uncle. Uncle speaks calmly to Salva, promising to protect him and assuring him they will soon be out of lion country. The landscape becomes greener, suggesting their nearness to water.One evening, Salva accidentally steps on another boy's hand.The boy is Dinka, but hails from a different village than Salva's. The boy is angry, but quickly softens. He asks Salva, “Your family?” Salva shakes his head, and the boy says, “Me, too.” The boy introduces himself as Marial, and they become friends.
Salva was so hungry he could hardly wait for the Topi to be cooked. That night, Salva felt very sick. He had eaten way too fast and his stomach was not used to having so much food in it. He, and many of the other members of the group, spent the night throwing up the food they had eaten.
Protagonist Salva, who's 11 when his story begins in 1995, knows that sometimes boys are forced to fight. Walking from his village to a refugee camp, he suffers greatly from thirst and hunger.
How was Nya's village able to afford the well? A school in America raised money to build the well. Everyone in Nya's village got jobs in the city and paid for the well themselves.
Salva does think of himself as a man when the rebels try to split the people into two groups. The rebels make him join the group of women and children and say "you are not a man yet."
How old is Salva?
46 years (December 1, 1974)
Q. How did Salva know Marial was not from his village? Marial ate different food from Salva.Marial said he was from Ethiopia.
Ch. 2 Why does Salva keep repeating the words, "Where is my family?" throughout the chapter? Salva is worried about his family, once he finds out they weren't in the group of Loun-Arikk survivors.
Both characters are in different situations. Salva doesn't know where his family is while Nya doesn't know if her family will have enough water. Both characters are afraid of meeting an enemy. Nya doesn't want to meet a Dinka, Salva's tribe and Salva doesn't want to meet a Nuer, Nya's tribe.
Nya is overjoyed that she won't have to spend her days walking miles to the pond. The availability of water causes a domino effect in the community: with all the extra time the villagers now have, they'll be able to design a school, a clinic, and other important facilities.
Along with 20-thousand other boys who became famous as “The Lost Boys of Sudan, Salva walked, first, to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Four years later, as a teenager, he led 1500 of the boys on an 800-mile trek through the Southern Sudan desert to another refugee camp in Kenya.
What does Uncle share with Salva? Uncle shared his food with Salva.
It blends the true story of Salva Dut whose story is based in 1985, a part of the Dinka tribe and a Sudanese Lost Boy, and the fictional story of Nya whose story is based in 2008, a young village girl that was a part of the Nuer tribe.
Perseverance. Perseverance and working towards and attaining goals are central themes of the novel. Salva is taught the importance of perseverance, never losing hope, and always continuing to work towards his goals, and attain them, by his Uncle Jewiir as they are crossing the Akobo Desert.
Taking Akeer for treatment could mean her demise if she is too ill to make the journey. Survival for Akeer, as for others in the story, requires a journey—a "long walk." Similarly, Marial loses his battle for life as he attempts to journey to the safety of the refugee camp.
Nya's mother is frightened that Dinka tribesmen will kill her husband and son—but so far, Nya's family has been lucky, and nobody has died. Nya's family lives in a near-constant state of fear and uncertainty. Every day there are new dangers, once again stemming from the scarcity of resources.
Salva is petrified by the sight of the dead bodies. He wonders if he would have given the men some of his water had he been older and stronger, or if he would have kept the water for himself. Very bravely, some of the refugees sacrifice their water to help the dying men, in the process endangering their own lives.
This chapter is key in the story for both Nya and Salva. Nya, who has been shown to be a keen observer of life around her, observes the beginnings of a project she is told has to do with water. She is confused. Her life is consumed by the quest for water, so she believes she knows all there is to know.
Walking symbolizes a determination to survive. Nya's days are consumed by walking for water so that her family might survive. She is determined to continue walking, pushing past fatigue, heat, thorns, and pain in order to bring life-sustaining water to her family. Similarly, Salva's days are consumed by walking.
The story of Dut's journey taught my 6th grade class many important lessons including perseverance, hope, and mental strength. Although his trials put our everyday struggles in perspective, they also gave us the strength to tackle our own challenges.
What is the evidence? I can infer that Marial was attacked and eaten by a lion because they said that the lions were probably hungry because of the war scaring away their prey so the lion thought it could sneak inand take one of the smaller people aka Marial Chapter 7 1.
