My essay

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.