This is my essay. My class has been writing a essay about A long walk to water. We had to choose a character that we thought was interesting and then write about all there emotions they had in the story.
In the story 'A long walk to water' by Linda Sun Park, a character I found interesting was a boy named Salva. Salva showed he was Brave, sad and Quiet in a number of events.
In the story, I found that Salva was very brave. I thought he was brave because In one point of the story, his group that he was walking with left him alone in the middle of the night. Salva had to stay by himself for a long time and also he was in the middle of nowhere. Another reason that I found Salva brave is because he led a big group of young boys from Ethiopia to Kenya and safety. There were about 1500 boys that he helped make the journey and 1000 of them survived. I think he was incredibly brave because If I was in that situation, I wouldn't of have known what to do at all.
In some bits of the story I think Salva was Sad. I think he was sad because when the village got attacked he had to run and leave his family and home behind. Another reason why I think Salva was sad is because Salva's group got attacked by rebels and the rebels stole all of the groups stuff. Then they sadly killed uncle because he was the leader. One more reason is because when Salva was walking with the group half of the time that they were walking Salva didn't know anyone.
Salva was very quiet in the story, because he didn't complain at all and he always stayed at the back of the group and didn't talk. I think it was good that Salva was quiet because if he talked a lot the group probably thought he was really annoying and didn't want him to be walking with them. But when Salva found his uncle he came out of his shell and wasn't that quiet.
In summary, Salva was brave, sad and quiet. He showed this in a number of ways throughout the story and this made him a character that I thought was great.
On the 10th of September, the year 7/8's went to El Rancho. On the first day half of the year 7/8's went and on the second day the other half of the year 7/8's went. I went on the first day. On each day there were 7 groups and each group had 3 activities. Also you didn't get to pick the groups or the activities and there were about 11 people in each group. Once we got to El Rancho we went in a room and had morning tea then we went straight to our first activity. The first activity that my group did was soft archery which was normal archery except on the ends of the arrows there were these marshmallow things on them. First You got in to 2 groups and then the 2 groups went on each side of the playing field. The aim of the game was to try and hit every opposite team member to try and get them all out and we did have these face masks things to protect our face just in case we accidentally got hit there. Also there were these big blow up object things that you could hide behind which was helpful. The next activity that my group did was go carting. When we got to go carting the guy talked to us about all of the safety rules and also that one of the go cart wasn't working so we just had to use one go cart. After the safety rules we lined up and put hair nets on. Probably so our hair would not get in the helmets. I was 3rd in the line so I didn't have to wait that long. When my turn arrived I hoped in the go cart, put the seat belt on, went through the safety rules one last time and then drove off. I drove around the track 3 times and then drove back to the bit were I hoped in the go cart. Once everyone got there turn including Renee that had to go with a guy in a double go cart we still had 10 minutes left some people got a second turn on the go cart and some people including me got to go on the double go cart which you didn't drive but it was still fun because the driver went fast. Then the go carting was over and before we went to our last activity all of the groups met at the playground and had lunch. After lunch everyone went to there last activity. The last activity that my group did was raffling. So first when we got there we sat down on a little bench and went through the safety rules and of how to use the gun. There were 2 sides that had 1 gun each. So my group spited up. One half of my group went to one side and the other went on to the other side including me. Also On each side there were this big large metal pipe thing that you shot down and the bullet would go through the pipe and come out the other side where the targets were. So the groups lined up and had a few turns to shoot. When it was my turn I actually hit the targets which was surprising. Half an hour later we started walking back to the park and met up with all he other groups then hoped on the buses and went back to school.
