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Southern Sudan: 1985 (Salva) and 2008 (Nya)

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Southern Sudan: 1985 (Salva) and 2008 (Nya)

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¨There was a big lake three days´ walk from Nya's village¨ (Park 26).

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¨The first man called out to his friend in a language Nya did not understand¨ (Park 57).

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¨Nya pushed at the skin around the thorn. Then she picked up another thorn and used it to poke and prod at the first one¨ (park 8).

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¨But a trip like that would be very difficult for Akeer¨ (Park 40).

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¨¨What do you think we are building here?¨ Nya´s father asked, smiling. ¨A house?¨ Nya guessed. ¨Or a barn?¨ Her father shook his head. ¨Something better,¨ he said. ¨A school.¨¨ (Park 103).

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¨Nya filled the container all the way to the top. Then she tied the gourd back in place and took the padded cloth dough-nut from her pocket¨ (Park 14).

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¨The earth was dry and rock-hard¨ (Park 64).

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¨They collected piles of rocks and stones and tied them up into bundles using sturdy cloth¨ (Park 70).

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¨A spray of water shot high into the air! This wasn't the water that the workers had been piping into the borehole. This was new water- water that was coming out of the hole!¨ (Park 83).

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¨Even though the water spraying out of the borehole was brown and muddy, some of the little boys wanted a drink right away¨ (Park 90).

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¨The men walked together to a spot beyond the second big tree and began clearing the land¨ (Park 97).

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¨Nya´s eyes widened. The nearest school was half a day's walk from their home. Nya knew this because Dep had wanted to go there. But it was too far¨ (Sue Park 103).

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¨A fire had been started under the tree, to smoke the bees out of the hive and make them sleepy¨ (Park 27).

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¨Every movement in the grass was a lion stalking, every stillness a lion waiting to spring¨ (Park 40).

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¨But here in the desert, nothing green could survive except tiny evergreen acacia bushes, which somehow endured the long winter months with almost no water¨ (Park 52).

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¨They buried Uncle in a hole about two feet deep, a hole that had already been made by some kind of animal¨ (Park 64).

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¨Holding his breath, he crept closer, until he could see her face clearly. The ritual scar patterns on her forehead were familiar: They were Dinka patterns, which meant that she was from the same tribe as Salva¨ (Park 15).

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¨The village wanted to kill a cow for you. That was how Salva´s people mourned the death of a loved one¨ (Park 105).

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¨The Dinka and the Nuer did not look very different physically. You had to look at the scar patterns on people's faces to tell the tribes apart-Dinka scar patterns were different from those of the Nuer. But the crew leader had no scars on his face¨ (Park 114).

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¨Salva remembered learning to read Arabic when he was young. The arabic alphabet had twenty-eight letters; the English, only twenty-six. In English, the letters stayed separate from each other, so it was easy to tell them apart. In Arabic words, the letters were always joined, and a letter might look different depending on what came before or after it¨ (Park 87).

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¨Now that Salva was learning more than a few simple words, he found the English language quite confusing¨ (Park 99).

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¨As the jeep drove up, most of the children ran to meet it¨ (Park 51).

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¨The pond water was piped into what looked like a giant plastic bag- a bag big enough to fill the entire bed of the truck¨ (Park 76)

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¨The group continued to walk through the land of the Atuot¨ (Park 37).

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¨They rode in a truck from the Ifo refugee camp to a processing center in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya¨ (Park 91).

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¨That evening they found a barn in which to spend the night¨ (Park 12).

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¨She handed Nya a bowl of boiled sorghum meal and poured a little milk over it¨ (Park 20).

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¨And for much of each day, they had to dig for water¨ (Park 33).

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¨The water from the lake bed could be collected only in tiny amounts¨ (Park 45).

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¨The water was delicious. It wasn´t warm or muddy, like the water from the pond. It was cool and clear¨ (Sue Park 112).

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¨The old women gave Salva a bag of peanuts and a gourd for drinking water¨ (Park 22).

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¨Uncle shared his food with Salva-a piece of sugar cane to suck on right away, then fish that they cooked over a fire and yams roasted in the ashes¨ (Park 47).

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¨As the bird roasted, Salva could hardly keep his eyes off it. There would only be enough for a bite or two for each person, but he could hardly wait¨ (Park 61).

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¨His father, who had sent Salva to school . . . brought him treats, like mangoes . . . trusted him to take care of the herd . . .¨ (Park 72).