A Long Walk To Water
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- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- CLIMAX - Refugee Camps
- RISING ACTION - Forced to Flee
- Hurry! We have to get to the bush!
- A Long Walk to Water is about a young refugee from Sudan, and his incredible journey to find his family and escape his war torn country. Along the way, Salva experiences immense struggles, grief, self doubt, and fear, but ends up as a hero and an inspiration.
- EXPOSITION - Life in a Time of War and Famine
- After a long time of walking and dangerous experiences, Salva ends up in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where he stays for many years. When word that the camp is closing down, refugees are forced to leave and fight for their lives yet again.
- FALLING ACTION - Going to America
- We are going to America!
- While Salva is in school gunshots, ring out all around the small schoolhouse. His teacher urges everyone to flee to the bush, as far away from the village as they can. They are under attack!
- RESOLUTION - Reunion and Making a Difference
- The war in Sudan changed the life of young Salva Dut in the 1980s. He must flee and search for his family without any true companionship along the way. Also set in Sudan, but in 2008, is the story of young Nya, who must walk for hours to get water for her family each day.
- Salva leads a group of nearly 1,500 young men from Ethiopia to Kenya, where they find the Ifo Refuge Camp. After what seems like a lifetime there, Salva and 8 other boys, known as "the Lost Boys", are chosen to go to America.
- When Salva moves to Rochester, NY, he is welcomed into a new family and begins a new life. He also is able to see his parents and siblings again. He goes to college and begins a nonprofit organization called Water for South Sudan, which has brought clean water to hundreds of thousands in Sudan.
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