Salva's Characteristics

Salva is one of the main characters in the book ‘A Long Walk To Water’. He met another character in the end. He also have some great characteristics that I’m going to partly analyze today.

Salva always have hope, and he won’t be beaten by anything if he have hope. For example, when his uncle was murdered by people from an enemy tribe, he didn’t end his own life with it. He continued to walk. His once rich family has been broken down into pieces because of the war, but Salva is determined to live his own unique life, not to end it, and eventually he met his father. Also, he have little food and money on the island with mosquitoes, but he held out to the last, and arrived at the refugee camp, where he lives with enough food and water.

Salva is also someone who turns hardships into treasures that will stay with him for his whole life, which means that he gets a lesson, learns, and improves himself with the hardship. For example, in the desert, he’s feet was badly hurt and his shoe came apart, but his uncle’s method of looking first at little goals makes him a good leader for his life. He has led a large group of boys to a refugee camp elsewhere, and they came to it day by day.

At last, Salva is someone who can beat hate with love. My dad once said to me that love is the strongest feeling in human beings, and this strongly represents it. Salva is in the Dinka tribe. Nya, another character, is in the Nuer tribe, which has fought the Dinka tribe for thousands of years. Salva’s uncle was murdered by people from the Nuer tribe anyway. But Salva raised money and dug wells to everyone in Sudan and supply them water, including the Nuer tribe, which has always been hostile to Salva. I couldn’t have done that if I were him.

To summarize, Salva’s a person who always have hope, who turns hardships into treasures that will stay with him for his whole life, and who can beat hate and hostility with love. He have all those great characteristics, he might seem a bit fake, but he’s a real existing person. We can turn into him if we like and wish, and some people can probably improve his characteristics, and make it unique to become a ‘perfect’ person himself!