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Exposition 1: Background - Salva
- Salva's father is a successful man, owned many herds of cattle, and was the village judge
- Salva is in the Dinka tribe, who's enemy is the Nuer Tribe.
- They speak Dinka, but learn Arabic in school.
- A war between the government and the rebels about becoming muslim started two years ago.
- The boys are responsible for some of the cattle untiil they are 10, and then they can go to school.
- The girls learn to keep house.
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Exposition 2: Setting - Salva
- Southern Sudan, Africa
- (Tonj Country)
- almost the end of the 7 month, rainy season
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Exposition 3: Characters - Salva
Salva Dut:
* boy
* about eleven years old
* (born 1974) -
Rising Action 1: Conflict - Salva
The war reaches Salva's village and he has to run into the bush, straight from school, without his family. So Salva has been seperated from his family, and is now running out into the wilderness in all of the caos. -
Rising Action 2 - Salva
Salva joins a group of travelers, but after the first night's rest, no one wakes him and he is left behind. An old Dinka lady helps him until she has to leave and another group of travelers come along, whom he joined. -
Rising Action 3 - Salva
Salva's group finds honey and then feasts on it, but in trying to get the honey they were all badly stung by bees.The group grew larger and larger everyday as more people joined them. -
Rising Action 4 - Salva
Salva meets a boy, Marial, with the same age and height with no parents either, and they become friends. Not too long before they reach the land of the Atuot people, "the people of the lion," Marial and Salva realize the group is heading east towards Ethiopia. The traveling became dangerous because of the bountiful amount of lions around the area. -
Rising Action 5 - Salva
Salva finds his uncle who had been with the group for three days, but there were well over 30 people, so they had not found each other earlier. Salva's uncle was allowed to keep his gun from fighting in the war, so he became one of the group's leaders. -
Rising Action 6 - Salva
Salva woke up one morning, and his uncle told him Marial had gone missing last night and wasn't any where to be found,he was probably taken by a lion. They reach the end of "lion land," and the edge of the Nile, the whole group works in an assembly line to construct boats, so they can cross. -
Rising Action 7 - Salva
They reached the island in the middle of the river, but no one had any money, so they had to beg for food; exept Salva's Uncle, who received food because of the fear effect his gun had on people. At night, they were attacked by mosquitos, and leave the island in the morning, continuing there journey across the river. -
Rising Action 8 - Salva
On the other side of the Nile, there is a vast desert that Salva and the other travelers had to suffer through for three days, five men even died from dehydration. Salva was particularly having a hard time because he was a child so he's weaker than the adults and he needs more water, but his uncle helps him to continue. -
Climax / Turning Point - Salva
On the afternoon of the third day, the travelers were almost out of the desert, when they saw a dead stork and stopped to eat it. Before the bird was done roasting, bandits came and robbed them. The bandits took Salva's uncle, tied him to a tree, and then used his gun to shoot him. -
Falling Action 1 - Salva
The group burried Salva's Uncle in a hole, and out of respect didn't start walking again until after dark. Salva is all on his own now with no one to look after him or care about him, and this causes him to feel stronger. -
Falling Action 2 - Salva
Salva is now at the refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, and feels hopeful that his family might be there, but then he realizes they wouldn't be there because he is 99% sure they are dead. He learns to take life at the refugee camp one step at a time, one day at a time, just like his uncle did to help him cross the desert. -
Falling Action 3 - Salva
Everyone is pushed out of the camp by soldiers, their guns were firing in the air and being used to push people along in the caos, out of Ethiopia, and into the Gilo River. The Gilo River is known for being inhabitted by crocodiles. People were jumping in or getting pushed in, and most of the people were either shot by the soldiers or eaten by a crocodile, but Salva gets lucky and makes it across. -
Falling Action 4 - Salva
Salva decides to go to Kenya where he has heard there are some more refugee camps; fifteen hundred young boys, that also survived, follow him, and he becomes their leader. Along the way, he protects them from the war and encourages them to keep moving, using everything he has learned from his family. More and more boys join the group as the days progress. When they finally reach Kenya, Salva had successfully led more than twelve hundred boys safely there. -
Falling Acion 5 - Salva
Salva had gone to the Kakuma camp, but there was never enough food, the conditions were horrible, and you weren't allowed to leave the building, unless you were leaving for good, so he left and went to the Ifo camp, but it was just the same, not any better, not any worse. At this camp, Salva made friends with an Irish aid worker, Micheal, who offered to
teach Salva English and how to read; and also how to play volleyball. -
Falling Action 6 - Salva
People in the camps were going to be able to go to America, from the camp, but only if they were healthy and an orphan. Salva fit the requirements, and he really wanted to go to the US, so he checks the lists everyday; his name is not on the list until weeks later, saying he will go to Rochester, New York. -
Resolution 1 - Salva
Salva rode to Nairobi, where a lot of preperation was done, including getting new clothes. Salva flew from Nairobi to Germany, then flew on another plane form Germany to New York City, and then another plane to Rochester, New York. Salva met his new family at the airport and before they went outside, they gave him more clothes (winter outerwear). He couldn't believe anyone could need so many clothes, but then he stepped outside, and experienced cold for the first time. -
Resolution 2 - Salva
Salva started going to college and picked up volleyball again. He got an email from his cousin saying his father was in a clinic, having surgery done, about 300 miles south from his village. Months later, all of the preperation was done for him to visit his dad. When they first see each other again, his father isn't sure if it's him because it had been so long. His father tells Salva, his mother is safe at home with his sisters, and Ariik and Kuel are dead, but his other brother, Ring, survived. -
Resolution 3 - Salva
Salva promises to his father that he will come back and visit home when the war has moved to a different village. He goes back to New York to talk to people about his idea, so that he can raise some money. Once his project is made a program, he returns to Sudan to give villages a water pump so they can have clean water right in the village. He was bringing these pumps to the villages of the Dinkas, but then he decides to give the Nuer Tribe villages water too. -
Exposition 1: Background - Nya
- During the 5 month, dry season, her family has to move to a lake camp, where there is sometimes fighting between Dinkas and themselves, who are Nuer
- Everyday during the rainy season, Nya wakes up, eats breakfast, walks to the pond to fetch water, walks back, eats lunch, walks to the pond to fetch water, walks back, eats dinner, and goes to bed.
- Nya has a baby brother, a 5 year old sister named Akeer, and an older brother named Dep
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Exposition 2: Setting - Nya
- Southern Sudan, Africa
- almost the end of the rainy season
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Exposition 3: Characters - Nya
Nya:
* girl
* about eleven years old
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Rising Action 1: Conflict - Nya
Nya and her family moved to the lake camp because the rainy season was over, and the pond water was all dried up. At the lake camp, Nya had to dig in the ground where the lake was, to reach water; and Dep and their father went off to hunt, with the risk of meeting Dinka Tribe men and having to fight them, leading to an injury or death. -
Rising Action 2 - Nya
Akeer became very sick with an illness that may cause starvation and might go away at first, but then soon return to go off and on for the rest of her life. This illness causes pain in the stomach and is caused by drinking dirty water, so anyone can get it; and several people had already gotten it in her village and at the lake camp. Her family didn't know whether to risk making the long journey to receive help, or to just let her rest. -
Rising Action 3 - Nya
Akeer went to a doctor and returned to her normal self, but from now on, she cannot drink dirty water; her water has to be boiled for a count of 200, but boiling the water was hard since it came in small amounts. - The dry season was over, so they traveled back to the village. -
Rising Action 4 - Nya
Two men rode up to Nya's village in a jeep and started talking to Nya's uncle, because he's the chief, about installing a pump that would bring clean water to their village. The men walked to a spot in between two trees, and then announced that was where they would find water, but there was no sign of water there. - The men left. -
Rising Action 5 - Nya
The men in the jeep came back witht wo trucks, a 10 men crew, tools and supplies. Meanwhile, the people in the village had been clearing land in the spot which was supposed to have water, and gathering stones for gravel. The crew then started drilling with the jackhammers and the worksite became very noisy. -
Rising Action 6 - Nya
The trucks would leave and come back with a large bag of water; the bag would sometimes leak and the crew would have a hard time patching it, this would then discourage the men, but the leader/boss encouraged them to continue. -
Climax / Turning Point - Nya
One day while the men were working, water shot out of the ground, like a geyser, and drenched those working the jackhammers. Though the water was dirty, everyone celebrated because they knew it meant progress and that clean water was soon to come. -
Falling Action 1 - Nya
Nya was disappointed and doubtful because of the color of the water when it shot out of the ground; she felt like it didn't mean anything because that water wasn't going to do anything for Akeer. Dep trried to reassure Nya, but he also said it would be several more days before the water would be clean, so Nya picked up her plastic water-fetching container and returned to her job. -
Falling Action 2 - Nya
Nya's father gathered some men, and carring tools, they all walked to a spot on the other side of the second tree as the well, and started clearing the land. They were going to build a school. -
Falling Action 3 - Nya
Now that they were going to have water in the village, none of the children would have to go to the pond anymore to retrieve water for their families everyday, so they could all attend school. Hearing that even the girls would be going to school, Nya walked off to fetch the water as happy as can be. -
Resolution 1 - Nya
The well was finished and everyone was waiting in line to get a drink from the pump. Everyone celebrated as they tasted the clean water. Soon the school would be built and a market place would follow; a clinic would eventually be built as well, but that would be a few years later. -
Resolution 2 - Nya
Others came to the well to taste the water, and people in the village had special jobs pertaining to the well. Nya discovered the leader of the project was Dinka, and he had brought water to Dinka villages, but had decided to bring water to a Nuer village and it was her's. She went over and thanked him, he asked her what her name was and told her his name was Salva.
