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Salva's teacher hears gunshots and tells all the students to run to the bush. Away from his home, this event is important because if Salva had not ran to the bush, he might have been dead.

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The group that Salva had been walking with had left him alone the next morning, by himself in a barn. This event is important because he would not have gotten a gourd for drinking water and peanuts to take with him with the next group he meets.

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Salva then meets a Dinka woman. This event is important because she tells him she must leave and he is given a gourd of water and peanuts in the next chapter when traveling with the new group he meets.

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Buska and Salva find a honey nest. This event is important because they finally get something to eat. If they didnt get this honey and honeycomb to eat, they could have easily starved and died in the hot and dry desert.

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Salva meets Marial. This event is important because if Marial didnt meet Salva, then Salva still wouldnt have known where they were going or made a friend on the long road east, to Eithiopia.

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Salva meets his uncle in the group. This is an important event because without his uncle helping him get to the refugee camp one step at a time, Salva might have just given up.

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Also in Chapter 6, Salva wakes up while on the walk and finds Marial is killed by a lion. This event is important because if Marial did not die, Salva would not have felt stronger after his uncle died as well.

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Salva helps build the boats to get across the nile. This event is important because they have to cross the Nile in order to get to Eithiopia.

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Salva and the group are attacked by a large group of mosquitos. This is an important event because they could get a disease from the mosquitos biting them.

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Salva and the group head for the Akobo Desert. This is an important event because the fishermen tell them they are gonna need to stock up on water, which is clearly leading the readers to believe that the group will be very dehydrated while walking through what seems to be a hot, humid, and dry desert.

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Salva and the group find people dying on the ground. A woman tries to give them water. This event is important because Salva had wanted to give up his water. If Salva had given his water, he might not have survived the Akobo desert.

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Salva's uncle is murdered in front of him. This is an important event because if his uncle hadn't died, he would not be stronger on the walk through the desert.

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Salva is now treated poorly after his uncle dies. This event is important because if he was not treated poorly, he wouldn't realize that he is not just a kid.

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Salva and the group make it to the Itang refugee camp. This event is important because this is where him, Marial, his uncle, the group, and all the refugees wanted to make it to. If he had not made it, he would not prove himself to the group.

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Salva thinks he sees his mom's orange headscarf. This event is important because he begins hoping that it is his mom and that his family is still alive.

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The orange headscarved woman did not end up being Salva's mother. This is an important event because he feels all the memory feelings that all his family is lost.

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Eithiopia is closing the Itang Refugee Camp. This event is important because Salva now has to walk again to the next camp in Kenya.

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Salva and the rest of the camp are forced to cross the river, in which a kid holds on to his back and gets hit and dies. The event is important because if the he had not been in the water with the kid on his back, he would not have survived.

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Salva becomes the leader of the boys that are heading to Kenya. This event is important because now he is in-charge of more than twelve hundred boys all traveling to Kenya.

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An irish man named Michael visits the Ifo refugee camp and teaches Salva English. This event is important because it would be harder for Salva to learn English in the future when he goes to America.

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Salva is going to America!! This event is important because Salva will able to live with a family that will give him the needs he needs to live.

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Salva takes his first step on plane, in a n airport, and in America. This evnt is important because Salva is saying he is going to miss Sudan, and that the air was cold and every breath felt like his lungs would freeze. Everything would change for him.

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Salva gets an email from his cousin that his father may be alive in a hospital at the United Nations Clinic. This is an important event because Salva has ahope that his father (at the least) could still be alive.

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Salva finds his father and also finds out that his mom, sister, and one of his brothers are still alive. This is an important event because Salva reconnects with his father whom he though was dead.

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Salva meets Nya. This event is important because it brings the two stories in A Long Walk To Water together. It ties the whole book into one piece