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Salva is 11 years old. He is at school when he heard gunshots and had to dash to a bush to hide from the North Sudanese government.
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Salva meets a woman from his Dinka tribe. He stood over for a few days before she had to leave because it is going to be a dry seaon.
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Salva met a few people that were not happy taking care of Salva because he is a child and won't work and he is another mouth to feed.
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Salva meets a new friend named Marial and got stung by bees and traveling to Ethopia.
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Salva can't find Marial with his Uncle thinking he died from a lion.
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Salva found an old man that turned out to be Salva's uncle.
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Salva, his uncles, and the rest of the group is building a canoe to cross the Nile River.
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Salva and the group encountered a small fishing island in the Nile where fishermen live and work and stood there to stop. Then, continued their journey through the torturous Akobo desert.
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Salva's lips were cracked and his toe nail was ripped off his toe. Also, a women in his group tried to save one of the men that collapsed.
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Salva's uncle got shot and robbed his group.
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Salva found his village Loun-Ariik, however when he and his people go to a barn to go to sleep. They decide to leave without Salva knowing that he has been left alone.
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Salva is 17 and now the Ethiopian gov. was shouting and shooting and must cross the Gilo river.1991
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Salva was crossing the river and a boy held him underwater and potentially saved his life as well as, a leader to the group of boys and organizing part time work to travel to Kenya and it took a year and a half. Also, he remembered his family and how old Kuol is now that Salva has been gone that he is a teenager. Also, more than twelve hundred boy arrived safely in Kenya.
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Salva shows perseverance when he is going to meet his new family in Rochester New York. He remembered about his family about the Coca Cola and his new family.
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Salva has found his father through via e-mail with his cousin going to visit him. However planning all of this was frustrating.
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Salva went to meet his father in Sudan and his mother is at their village and his father thought Salva was dead for sure but he had hope.
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Salva and the group buried Uncle and now in Itaga refugee camps in Ethiopia.
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Salva and Nya met each other in person for the first time ever in the book and it was joyful.