Nya's Story
What all the workers in Nya's village wore.
What is blue coveralls?
Salva is walking here after he crosses the Gilo.
What is Kenya?
Weeks passed, then months. One day a notice was posted at the camp's administration tent. It was a list of names. If your name was on the list, it meant you had made it to the next step: the interview. After the interview, you might go to America.
What is chronological?
This literary element has now jumped ahead another six and a half years and changed to Kenya.
What is setting?
WHOOSH
What is onomatopoeia.
What Nya thought was funny in chapter 13.
What is having to have water to find water?
The time it took for Salva to lead the boys to safety after they were kicked out of the Ethiopian Refugee Camps.
What is a year and a half?
Salva remembered learning to read Arabic when he was young. The Arabic alphabet had twenty-eight letters; the English, only twenty-six. In English, the letters stayed separate from each other, so it was easy to tell them apart. In Arabic words, the letters were always joined, and a letter might look different depending on what came before or after it.
What is compare/contrast?
This literary element tells the story through a narrator, switching between Salva and Nya's perspective.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
Salva did not know how long he was in the water. It felt like hours. It felt like years.
What is a hyperbole?
The boss of the work going on in Nya's village
What is one of the two men who had first come to the village?
These things influenced Salva to be a leader to about 1500 boys.
What is his family, mother, father, sisters, brothers, and uncle?
When at last the tips of his toes touched mud, he forced his limbs to make swimming motions one last time. He crawled onto the riverbank and collapsed. Then he lay there in the mud, choking and sobbing for breath.
What is descriptive?
When the drill in Nya's village reaches water and when Salva leaves for America.
What is climax?
It(Kakuma Camp) felt almost like a prison.
What is a simile.
How long the drill worked until it hit water.
What is 3?
The number of boys who Salva lead safely to Kenya.
What is more than 1200?
Why are they shooting at us?
Salva had no choice. He jumped into the water and began to swim. A boy next to him grabbed him around the neck and clung to him tightly. Salva was forced under the surface without time to take more than a quick shallow breath.
What is cause and effect?
In the exposition of the story, Salva's school was shot at and bombed during the Sudanese Civil War, separating him from his family and forcing him to leave his home.
What is the inciting incident
A rumor was spreading through the camp. It began as a whisper, but soon Salva felt as if it were a roar in his ears. He could think of nothing else. America.
What is a simile?
The problem with the water that the drill reached.
What is mud?
The two things Salva learned from Michael at the Ifo Refugee camp.
What is volleyball and how to read?
He organized the group, giving everyone a job: scavenge for food; collect firewood; stand guard while the group slept. Whatever food or water they found was shared equally among all of them. When the smaller boys grew too tired to walk, the older boys took turns carrying them on their backs.
What is problem and solution
One step at a time...one day at a time. Just today - just this day to get through...Salva told himself this every day. He told the boys in the group, too.
This is what Literary Element?
What is theme?
It was hard to keep hope alive when there was so little to feed it.
What is personification