A Long Walk To Water Salva Analysis

Throughout Salva's personal journey he learned many lessons that impacted him in A Long Walk to Water making him more independent, braver and more of a leader.
Salva became more independent as a person because in the book A Long Walk to Water slava was left in a barn all by himself and he had to find a way to get to the refugee camp, I can support this because in the text it states “Finally he sat up and opened his eyes no one else was in the barn. Nobody.Nothing. They had left him. He was alone.” In this quote, it shows that slava was alone in the barn and he didn't know what to do and this made him more independent as a person because he had to find a way to find someone to help him get to the refugee camp. In Addition, Salva became an independent …show more content…
I say this because when Salva was in school, he heard the shooting and he ran into the bushes, to get away from the shooting and didn’t look back. I can support this because in the book it states “He continued the lesson from where he left off then- CRACK! POP-POP-CRACK! ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK! Gunfire!” This quote shows how Salva's life changed just like that but also it shows that he was confident to run into the bushes when there was a fire and everyone was running. Another reason why Salva was confident and braver was that he was stuck in the barn by himself and he didn’t know what to do. I can prove this because in the text it says “The tears were hot in Salva’s eyes. Where had everyone gone? Why had they left without waking him?” This quote shows how Salva was scared to be in the barn by himself and he was brave and he found someone to help him find a group. Salva was also confident in himself because he stayed calm and he always stayed positive that he was going to find his family. During Salva's journey, he was always confident in himself that he could make it to Ethiopia and walk there and he did. I can support this because in the book it states “Salva would think of his family and his village, he was somehow able to keep his wounded feet moving forward, one painful step at a time.” this quote shows that Salva was confident in himself that he could think of his family and walk all those miles without dying and without water and food. My final reason that Salva was confident was that he could go to NY and he was confident because Salva didn’t know any English and he didn't’ even know the people that he was looking for. I can support this because in the text it states “Salva blinked away the tears and took his first step into a new life in America.” I used this quote because it shows how Salva was confident in himself to go to a place he has never been and live there