What is Salva's story about?

Salva was one of the missing boy in Sudan, walking away from his parents after the war and walking in Africa. Hard Trekking Salva has overcome hunger, wildlife attacks, and disease before arriving in Kenya. He finally moved to New York where he studied English and finally went to college. Salva's story also laid the foundation for the installation of the deep sea well in the southern Sudan, so the remaining people will get clean water ... missing ones

Salva's story is talked about in the best selling Linda Su Park 2010 award-winning novel A Long Walk To Water. Park combines the true story of Salva with the fictional Nya story. Every day Nya takes hours to get water for my family. Throughout the study, Salva himself writing, and finally, Interview to Salva himself, Parker and Salvador cooperated to tell his extraordinary story. She has never been to Sudan, but Park believes it can provide a bright spot for Salva 's story. "One of my biggest obstacles is to write places I have never done, which was always destructive to me.Transactions are still the same today, which is a difficult decision , I thought that if we insisted on the information that Salva gave me like an adhesive * I could break this principle. "

In this lesson, we summarize the tale of the connection from Sudan, between Salva and Nya, a long walk to the water. Salva's story began with an eleven-year-old boy who walked to the refugee camp through the desert when his village was destroyed in war. After gaining the opportunity to go to the United States, he finally found a team dug in Sudan inspired by his father's illness caused by dirty water. Nya's life will expand mainly to go to the pond and draw water until the monkey foundation digs a well in her town.

Parker's novel miraculously survived Salva Duther in the Sudanese civil war, and then reproduced the long-standing true story at the refugee camp and was later adopted by the family of New York. In tandem with the parallel contemporary story of Nya's girl named Southern Sudan, she needs to walk a few hours a day to get water for her family. The story of Nya and Salva gives Cliché a new meaning of "never giving up". Have the students participate in conversations about important topics on all Sudan books and graphically show relationships between thematic elements in the text. Next, look at the 2003 documentary film "Lost Sudanese Boys" and compare and contrast the understanding of the content delivered through movies and books. In addition, discuss what Hope Brothers' illustration brings to text and how they differ from the images in the movie.