What does Nya spend her time doing each day? Nya spends her time walking to get gourds of water for her family (1985) 2. Salva was relieved and felt comforted because he recognized some people from his tribe but no one from his family was there.
This novel has story lines; the first follows Nya, whose family is part of the Nuer tribe. She lives in South Sudan in the year 2008. The second story line begins in 1985 in the South Sudan where Salva is an eleven year old boy who is a member of the Dinka tribe.
Two differences is that Salve got an education, as shown throughout chapter one, where he was sitting in class. Another difference is that Salva is walking in order to reach a refugee camp in Ethiopia, while Nya walks for the purpose of retrieving water for her family.
He can now be a role model for the group of Dinka people. He saw his uncle lead so he knows how to keep the people happy and safe. With Nya's challenges she has to walk back and fourth every day just to get water.
Nya likes the camp because they are close to water. Her mother hates it because they sleep in makeshift shelters, they do not have most of their things, they must dig for water, and she fears the men will run into Dinka and they will fight. Nya is from the Nuer tribe, Salva is a Dinka so they would not be friends.
Chapter One Southern Sudan, 2008: Nya, who is eleven, is walking with a large container. She will walk half the morning. Southern Sudan, 1985: Salva, a Dinka, is in school. He only attends for part of the year because his family moves away during the dry season.
A young girl, Nya spends much of her waking life walking to and from a large pond, miles away from her family's village. She collects water from the pond into a gourd, balances the gourd on her head, and walks home, where she immediately deposits the water, turns back, and does it all over again.
Nya. Nya is an 11-year-old girl who walks eight hours to fetch water from the pond. She and her family live in South Sudan in 2008. Her family home is far from the nearest pond, where she walks twice a day to support her parents and younger sister, Akeer.
​In A Long Walk to Water both Nya and Salva show persistence in challenging environments. Nya has to walk eight hours every day to the pond and back to gather water. She must continue no matter what.
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.
A similarity between Salva and Nya is that they both thought someone or people they loved were dead. Nya thought her baby sister, Akeer, was going to die, but she had lived. Salva thought his parents and siblings all died, but his mother, father, sisters, and brother were still living.
Nya took the hollowed gourd that was tied to the handle of the plastic container.
Only 1,200 boys made it to Kenya. There Salva had the good fortune to get a sponsorship to travel to the United States in 1996. In the United States, Salva was taken in by an American family and a church in Rochester, New York, who took him to school.
A "Lost Boy" returns, transforming lives in South SudanSalva Dut was born in a rural village in southwestern Sudan to the Dinka tribe. He joined thousands of boys, famously known as the "Lost Boys," on their journey by foot to seek safety in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Nya clearly is responsible since she retrieves water daily for her family without complaining even though it is a long excursion. Imagine not having time to be a kid. Only coming home to eat and then going back to walking. This definitely shows the responsibility that must be taken on, making her responsible.
The village celebrates because there is water shooting out of the borehole. The new water is full of mud because the pipe has not been drilled far enough into the ground for clean water to be coming out. (1992-1997) 2. Describe the misery at Kakuma.
Chapter 13, Nya: Southern Sudan, 2009Their boss, though, encourages them to keep going. He banters with them, he persuades them, and when all else fails, he gets angry at them, but not often. They patch the bag again, and everyone, including the boss, keeps working. The drilling continues.
that she does not have to walk far to get water. What is Nya's mother afraid of when the family is at the lake? the men in the family will meet the Dinka tribe, fight and get killed or hurt.
How does Marial's death affect Salva? It makes him determined. It makes him long for his mother.
How did Nya remove the thorn? She picked it out with her fingers.
When Nya arrives at the pond she feels . . . Nya finds relief at the pond both in the life after walking alone and in the water to drink.
What is the red iron giraffe that is brought to Nya's village? it is a drill. What do the villagers do with the rocks the women bring back to the village? The rocks are broken up into gravel.
Nya watched the strange men leave their meeting.The men walked past Nya's house and stopped by a tree to talk to her uncle. Nya could hear the men talking, but they were speaking in a languae she didn't understand.
No, Nya is not a real person. Nya is a fictional character made up by Linda Sue Park and is half of the book's story.
Nya is a fictional character, although “she is representative of many of the children who live in the Sudan; everything that happened to Nya is true.â€
Salva led the team that built the well in Nya's village. Salva and Nya decided to work together. Why was Nya excited about her village building a school?
| Detail/Evidence What Salva or Nya thought, said, or did | Inference/Reasoning What this shows about how culture, time, or place influenced Salva's or Nya's identity |
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| Quote (About Nya or Salva?) | Meaning Is it related to culture, time, or place? Circle one. |
Nya is 11 years old. She does not go to school, but spends all day, for seven months of the year, walking to a pond to fetch water for her family.
Linda Sue Park (born March 25, 1960) is a Korean-American author who published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. She has written six children's novels and five picture books. Park's work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard.
In 2003, Salva Dut, a refugee from Sudan living in Rochester, had an idea. He would raise money; he would go back to his village in the east African country; he would dig a well; he would bring water. The idea became a reality beyond his grandest intentions. The organization he created has now dug 400 wells.
