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Exposition1
An 11 y.o. boy named Salva, who is a Dinka, which is a tribe name is running away from the war that started when he was at school in Southern Sudan and the villiage he lives in is called Loun-ariik -
rising action1
Salva thinks of what could've happended to his family in the war, while he walks with his group to who knows where. Simply, they're walking away from the war. -
Rising Action3
Salva's group ditched him and then was cared for by an old lady before another group came and picked him up. Now he's walking North to Ethopia -
Rising Action5
Salva meets up with a kid about the same age as him named Marial. Marial is a smart, young lad who comfirmed that the group is indeed going north to Ethopia. Things to come with him that is a tradgedy. -
Rising Action7
Salva finds his uncle in his travling group and sees that his uncle has become the leader of the group he's been travling in for the past few days. -
Rising Action11
Salva wonders what does his uncle's gun represent? What could effect him because he has the gun? All these question are to make sure of his uncle's safety because he doesn't have anyone else he can lean on. -
Rising Action9
After walking for a day Salva, Marial and Salva's uncle rest while a few men keep watch for things, but their eye wasn't good enough because a lion came in and chowed down on Marial, and then All Salva could concentrate on from that point on was Murial. -
Rising Action13
Salva and his uncle must cross the Nile River by boat on a two day trip that has them stop in the middle of the Nile and sleep on an island with fishermen -
Rising Action15
After crossing the Nile Salva and his group had to walk days through the desert and Salva almost couldn't survive if it were'nt for his uncle who kept him going. -
Climax1
when Salva's group takes a pit stop and is cooking a bird for dinner a Nuer group with guns comes and robs them. Then, notices Salva's uncle's gun and thinks he's important to the group and the Nuer ties uncle to a tree and shoot him. Then the Nuer run. -
Falling Action1
Salva is a sent to a refugee camp in Ethopia and he finally feels relaxed from all the walking he did. -
Rising Action3
Salva at first had beleif his family was still alive, but now since his uncle told him they were probably dead he gave up hope a little bit after Salva's group got to the refugee camp. -
Falling Action5
Salva has been in Ethopian Refugee Camp for six years and now is being forced back over to Sudan for reasons unknown. -
Falling Action7
Salva and every other person in the Ethopian Refugee camp were being pushed into crocodile filled water. What made it even worse was that the Ethopian were shooting at them while they swam across the river. Salva heard thousands died that day, but he asked why was he so lucky. why wasn't he one of the thousands that died? -
Falling Action9
Salva had a long one and a half year journey from Ethopia to Kenya, but now Salva is in a refugee camp in Kenya where he's is learning English and will soon goto the usa to meet a new family that adopted him. -
Resoultion1
Salva finally gets a chance in the big city. New York!!! -
Resoultion3
Salva finds out that his father and some of his family is still alive. When Salva sees his father they can't stop talking of what happened without each other. In all Salva lost 2 out of 3 brothers, but still has his 2 sisters, his father, and his mother. Then Salva thinks of a plan to help people in Sudan and anywhere really. -
Exposition2
A 11 y.o. girl named Nya who is a Neur, which is a tribe name, lives in Southern Sudan and in a small village where they don't have a school or a good water system -
Rising Action2
Nya once again has to go to the water pond to scoop up water with her jug and takes half the day away from her. Then gets a thorn stuck in her foot and has to try to pick it out with another thorn. -
Rising Action4
Nya has a thought which was what if she didn't have to walk to the dinking pond everyday to gather water. What if we had water in the village somehow, -
Rising Action6
Nya is at a camp and might be having problems with her mother and doesn't know what to do. -
Rising Action10
Akeer, one of Nya's relatives gets sick from the water and now Salva's family has to take her to a clinic along way away. -
Rising Action8
Nya's mother is always thinking what if. What if Nya's father and brother don't come back from hunting. There are dinkas out there and they are one dinka tribe away from being killed. -
Rising Action12
Nya wonders and thinks since Akeer got sick is the water safe to drink anymore? She thinks what if i get sick or the whole town gets sick? What will we do then? -
Rising Action14
Akeer has no healed from his sickness and is almost fully walking around. Now Nya wonder of what's to come for his Nuer village. -
Rising Action16
Nya doesn't understand where the water is. Some people say it's between these two trees, but all Nya sees is a dry spot. -
Climax2
Two men came to Nya's village and declare they know where the water is. From that moment on everywhere Nya looked they were looking for the water. They were doing anything. For example the two men who came had a crew and they were digging a hole with a machine trying and trying to find that water -
Falling Action2
After awhile Nya doesn't understand why they are digging on the dry spot because obviously no water is sprouting out -
Rising Action4
Nya didn't get why everyone was still looking for the water for more than a few months now if none came. she asked herself, " Is my village really that desperate for the water." -
Rising Action6
Nya didn't understand why the pile of gravel was getting bigger everyday. -
Falling Action8
Nya is then facisnated by the process of which the workers work. Nya just went on and on about how the workers did the digging so splendidly and then the boss would encourage his workers, so they'd work harder. Things like that is what she ment by the process of their work. -
Falling Action10
The workers in Nya's village finally hit water in a what seemed like forever, but it isn't clean water so they can't drink it. The workers said they just have to dig a little deeper so the dirt clears out -
resoultion2
Nya finds out there will be clean water soon. She can't wait -
Resoultion4
Salva, at last gets a chance to learn at a school. -
Resoultion5
A. Salva figured out a plan to help people around the world and met Nya by voulenteering as the boss of this whole water deal, but since the Dinka and the Nuer hate each other and his uncle was killed by Nuer this must have been hard for Salva to do.
B. Nya met Salva because after Nya's village finally got clean water she went up to the boss of the water crew and said thank you and the man said his name was Salva
