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What about Salva's life is like yours.  You can not say "nothing."

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What about Salva's life is like yours.  You can not say "nothing."

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Why do you think the author opens each chapter with Nya's activities?

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Why do you think the author opens each chapter with Nya's activities?

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I think his life is much different because he has to run away from his home to be safe. It is also different because if he gets caught he could be forced to go to war as a child and has a very high chance of dying.  I know it is also a lot scarier because he could get shot. In Canada we don't have to worry about people running around with guns pillaging the city. Canada is very peaceful with no wars. Even though he has a family just like us, they got separated from each other and are commanded to do stuff. People in Canada also have food when in Sudan they struggle to find an

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Salva's life is like mine because he is a person just like all of us and he has a family just like we all do. Salva's life is similar to mine because everyone on this Earth is equal and Salva is a person and has to have all the needs that everyone else has.

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I think his life is diffrent beacuse he has to run from gun shots and got abondond by everyone he knows and I live inside a house and the only gunshots i heard where on video games and i never got abondond

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In Salva's life he was in a risky situation where there were people fighting against the government. He heard gunshots during school and his class had to hide. Salva ran as far as he could away with nobody he knew away from his family. He was probably very scared
and worried. He had to find his village group while running too. This shows how hard it was for Salva. My life is much different. In Canada you don't hear gunshots. Our country is very peaceful too. Since the housing and buildings are closer together we would not need to run far away from things and would always find a way back home easily. In Windsor the only gunshots you would probably hear would be on a movie, video game, or a video. That is how my life and Salva's life are different.

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I think the author opens each chapter with Nya´s activities because Nya´s story is fiction and I think that the author is trying to tie Nya´s fiction story tie in with Salva´s story.

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I feel the reason the author keeps opening the chapters with Nya's story is we need constant reminder where we are. We are in Sudan where water is extrememly scarce and that can tie in to Salva's story. My prediction is that at the end of the story their stories will connect somehow.

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Salva is like because he is a boy and he is a person like all of us,

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I think she opens it with nya's life just to compare so salva's life and how they are diffrent

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Salva is like us because he isn't someone too special. He was just another boy, wanting to go to school and have a good life. He wants an education. Unlike us, he gets taken away, and what he wants was taken from him, and that's what makes the book interesting.

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I think the author opens the story with Nya's life because her story is fiction when Salva's is non-fiction. Even though one is real and the other is fake, they both have a connection which is they live in Sudan and it is a hard time to gain water and supplies for family and friends. A prediction of mine is that they're going to connect and be very similar with one another.

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I think the author does Nya's entry because I think it's to get us thinking of how much of a difference it is between Nya's and Salva's life style because not everyone is going through the same thing. One can be harder, one can be easier.

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Salva is like us because at some point we both get an education for the outside world, we have some kind of shelter, food, and water source, he is a living person just like us, and he deals with the problems a boy/girl deal with at some point whether it's physical, or emotional. That's what I think is similar between Salva's and our lives.

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I think that Salva's life is actually way different than mine because in the book he runs away from gun shots but where we live guns are illegal. He and his family get water from a river that has dirty things in it that can give you diseases. We get our water from the Detroit River. We have a system where they clean water for us as in for Salva they don't have clean water at all. I really think kids theses days should read "A Long Walk To Water" so they understand what they had in Sudan and why they should be thankful for what they have.

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Salva's life is similar to mine because we both were created the same way and we both are humans.  He also goes to school and has education just like me until he got lost from his family. Salva also has family and friends just like I do. Those where some of my examples of how Salva is like me in some ways.

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I think that the author keeps starting with Nya's story because Nya's story is basically telling you how living in Sudan is. So when the author mentions Salva's problem you remember what Nya's story was and you compare them. For example say if it said Nya had to walk hours to get water than you would wonder how Salva would get water. That is what I think why the author mentioned Nya's story first.

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I think that Salva's life is like mine because we both have families, we both have friends. Salva has lost his family but I have only had family members pass away.  Salva had every day tasks with his family, I have chores to help my family. Those were some reasons that Salva's lives are similar.

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I think that the author starts out a chapter with Nya because she is a fictional character and Salva is a non-fictional character and he has a lot more happening in his life. That is why I think that the auother puts Nya's life first.