Q. How is Nya and Salva different?
Both characters are in different situations. Salva doesn’t know where his family is while Nya doesn’t know if her family will have enough water. Both characters are afraid of meeting an enemy. Nya doesn’t want to meet a Dinka, Salva’s tribe and Salva doesn’t want to meet a Nuer, Nya’s tribe.
Q. What do Nya and Salva have in common?
A similarity between Salva and Nya is that they both thought someone or people they loved were dead. Nya thought her baby sister, Akeer, was going to die, but she had lived. Salva thought his parents and siblings all died, but his mother, father, sisters, and brother were still living.
Q. How does Nya survive in a long walk to water?
A young girl, Nya spends much of her waking life walking to and from a large pond, miles away from her family’s village. She collects water from the pond into a gourd, balances the gourd on her head, and walks home, where she immediately deposits the water, turns back, and does it all over again.
Q. Did Salva Dut find his family?
Salva Dut was separated from his family during a civil war in what is now South Sudan. Years later, he finds his father who tells him that most of his family survived. Hearing that, Salva starts a volunteer group to build wells in South Sudan called “Water for South Sudan”.
Q. Why is Salva so afraid after Marial vanishes?
Salva and Uncle did not know where Marial went that night. They quickly relized that Marial had been eaten by a lion that night. Salva was very upset because Marial was his only friend in their group because they were the same age. Uncle said that he would shoot any lion that came near them.
Q. How does Meeting Marial affect Salva?
How does meeting Marial affect Salva? Salva will feel more positive because he has a friend. Salva will become a follower and do whatever Marial says. Salva will become more scared.
Q. How many trips did Nya take to the pond each day?
two trips
Q. What does Salva mean when he says everything was upside down?
Add Yours. Answered by jill d #170087 a year ago 5:56 AM. In context, Salva is referring to the old woman’s questions when she asks how he will find his family. Salva expects the adults to have the answers to questions….. not to be the ones asking them.
Q. Why are the villagers celebrating the dirty water spraying from the borehole?
The village celebrates because there is water shooting out of the borehole. The new water is full of mud because the pipe has not been drilled far enough into the ground for clean water to be coming out.
Q. How does Salva feel when he sees the group of people walking toward the house?
How does Salva feel when he sees the group of people walking towards the house? Salva feels worried because he does not know what tribe they are from until he sees the scars on their faces. Describe a typical day in Nya’s life.
