Summary: Chapter 1, Nya: Southern Sudan, 2008
Eleven-year-old Nya sets out carrying a large plastic container filled with air. Noon is hours away, yet the air already bakes from the hot sun. If she walks without stopping, it will take half the morning. Getting there is easy.Bạn đang xem: Long walk to water
Summary: Chapter 1, Salva: Southern Sudan, 1985
Eleven-year-old Salva sits in the classroom, stealing glances through the window at the road home. The teacher continues the Arabic lesson. Arabic is the official language of Sudan, but at home, Salva’s family speaks the language of their tribe, the Dinka. Salva’s two older brothers, Ariik & Ring also go to school. Akit và Agnath, his sisters, stay home. Kuol, his younger brother, is not yet old enough for school. When the dry season comes, school will end and Salva’s family will leave the village.
Today Salva daydreams. He knows how lucky he is lớn be in school, yet he would rather be with his brothers, herding their father’s cattle lớn graze near the water holes. They would play along the way, making cows out of clay, or practicing with their bows và arrows. Perhaps they would kill a small animal, roast it over a fire, & savor the few bits. He thinks about how when he gets home, his mother will be waiting for him, wearing her bright orange headscarf, holding a bowl of fresh milk for him.
Suddenly, Salva hears gunshots. The two-year long religious war between rebels from the south and the government has reached Salva’s village. Outside, men, women, & children are running. Salva’s teacher yells for the students to run, & to not go back to lớn their village. Salva tries lớn scream that he wants to go home, but no words come. He runs into the bush, leaving trang chủ behind.
Summary: Chapter 2, Nya: Southern Sudan, 2008
Nya sits down on the ground with the container beside her. Thorns from plants that line the path cover the ground. She examines her heel. Half of a large thorn has embedded itself there. She tries to lớn remove it with her fingers, & then finds another thorn that she uses as a tool to lớn dig out the one lodged in her foot. Nya grimaces at the pain.
Summary: Chapter 2, Salva: Southern Sudan, 1985
Salva hears a loud boom and sees flames và smoke behind him. He runs for hours, not knowing where he is going, where his family is, & if they will see him again. He slows to walk alongside others who are fleeing.
At nightfall, the people stop & separate into groups by village. Salva joins people from Loun-Ariik, his village. A few faces look familiar, but his family is not there.
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The next day, the walking continues. Gun-toting rebels surround the villagers. Salva wonders what will happen to lớn them, and where his family is.
As evening approaches, they arrive at the rebel camp. The soldiers separate the villagers into two groups—one of men, the other of women, children, and the elderly. Salva is unsure of which group to lớn join. He is Salva Mawien Dut Ariik, of an important family. Surely he can act like a man, & set a good example for Kuol. He moves khổng lồ join the men, but a soldier stops him, & points him khổng lồ the women and children. Salva thinks of seeing his family again và swallows his terror. The soldier laughs and tells Salva not khổng lồ be in such a hurry to lớn grow up.
In the morning, not everyone wants lớn go with the rebels, but no one dares protest after a soldier beats a man for resisting.
At nightfall, Salva’s group finds a barn lớn sleep in. He sleeps restlessly with the uncertainty of where he is going and whether he will see his family again. When he awakens in the morning, everyone is gone. Salva is alone.
Analysis:Chapters 1–2
Park uses a narrative structure in A Long Walk lớn Water that weaves two parallel stories together throughout the book’s chapters. A third-person omniscient narrator introduces the reader first lớn Nya and then to lớn Salva. The structure itself, a back & forth between the two stories, suggests a connection between these two main characters, though the reader has, at this point, few clues as lớn what this connection might be. We know that Nya và Salva are both eleven years old và that they are both in Southern Sudan. It is clear that it is hot & dry where Nya lives và that Salva’s family leaves their village during the dry season, which suggests a nomadic existence determined by access lớn water. However, Salva’s story begins twenty-three years before Nya’s.
The brevity with which Park begins Nya’s story in the first two chapters contrasts with the more detailed description of Salva. What the reader initially learns about Nya is limited lớn short sentences that reveal the most basic of facts. Her journey involves a certain amount of suffering & physical pain, though at this point, it is unclear where she is going, or if this is a journey she makes every day. She walks alone, so little is known about her family or friends, though her family has sent her out with an empty container for a specific purpose. Park introduces us khổng lồ Salva, on the other hand, with more detail, including information about his country (Sudan), his tribe (Dinka), & his family. He and his brothers know they are fortunate khổng lồ attend school, và though they tóm tắt responsibility for herding their family’s cattle khổng lồ water, their days seem somewhat carefreely spent in a bucolic setting, in stark contrast to lớn Nya’s day. Salva’s daydreaming suggests the warmth và closeness he feels lớn his family. Salva’s sisters bởi vì not attend school but rather stay home to attend khổng lồ domestic duties, và this points to lớn differences in gender roles in Sudanese society.
Both Nya and Salva’s suffering và struggle to lớn survive is brought about by circumstances that are beyond their control. The reader can guess that the pain Nya endures, from thirst khổng lồ thorns, is due in large part to the harshness of the natural environment in which she lives. She is only a child, but she must rely on herself to khuyến mãi with her pain. Salva’s suffering, on the other hand, is brought about by human violence. The raging Sudanese Civil War that has now reached his village shatters his childhood innocence and launches him into an experience of gutsy survival vastly different from the life he daydreams about. In order lớn survive, he must flee everything he has ever known. While Salva is determined lớn be brave và “act like a man” as his father has always encouraged him, the rebel soldier tells him not khổng lồ grow up too fast và forces Salva lớn join the group of women & children. Ironically, the very adults who one might think would protect Salva, abandon him. When he awakens to an empty barn, he must face a cruel reality: he will have to depend on himself for his own survival và “act like a man.”
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