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Vocabulary
Characters
Setting
Plot
Theme and
Central Idea
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A synonym for the word "relief"

What is substitute, comfort, or ease?

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Salva feels this way about his education and family.
What is grateful or appreciative?
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The story takes place here.
What is Southern Sudan?
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Salva is in a classroom, staring out the window.

What is the introduction or exposition?

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The most explicit theme for Nya's struggle.
What is Water is life.
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A synonym for "survival."

What is endurance or staying alive?

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Nya spends her time each day doing this.

What is fetching water for her family?

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The place to which Nya walks twice each day.
What is a pond?
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The school is attacked by rebel soldiers and Salva runs into the bush rather than home is this part of the plot in A Long Walk to Water.

What is the incitement to action or start of the rising action?

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A central idea and lesson that Salva learns from his uncle.

What is leadership?

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A word that means serious and sad.

What is solemn?

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What happened to children who became to weak and sick to walk.

What is they became prey?

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Salva's new best friend.

Who is Marial?

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This creates the major conflict for Nya.
What is water.
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A central idea that keeps both Nya and Salva from giving up.

What is hope?

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To keep going with determination.

What is perservere?

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Akeer's laugh was "like music" to Nya because of this.
What is Nya was relieved that Akeer was feeling better?
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The three countries the children trekked through.

What is Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda?

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When Salva wakes up alone in a barn and realizes that the group has left him, is this part of the plot.
What is the rising action?
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What is the theme around Salva's relationship with Auntie.


What is compassion for others?

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To feel someone else's pain

What is empathy?

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The dilemma that Akeer's mother had.

What is to take her on the long journey to the doctor or try to let her heal at home.

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The author uses the scene at the beginning of Chapter 2 to create this effect on the setting.
What is to show the chaos and panic, to show a change in setting, and to sever Salva with his past.
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This is a new conflict that arises at the end of Chapter 9.
What is the decision to use water to help others or save yourself.
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Theme of the novel

What is There is nothing more resilient than the human spirit.