In the book “A Long Walk To Water” a boy named Salva faces many challenges. I will be summarizing chapters one through seven. In the beginning Salva, our main character, is at school. But suddenly the class hears noises. Not normal noises but gunshots, GUNSHOTS! So Salva and his classmates run to the “bush”, the wilderness, because of the gunshots which later turn out to be part of the Civil War in 1985 in all of Sudan. Salva starts to run away with other people that fled varouis other places. I am not sure some are from his village Loun Ariik some might have been though. Salva’s group decides to take a break in a barn. However he wakes up to find they abadonded because he was just a kid. Soon after another group pases by and makes him join, which later on Salva figures out his uncles is in the group. While traveling they pass “lion country” and his new friend Marial dies by a lion. The group continues on to try and cross the nile. Will they make or will they fail find out next time on A Long Walk To Water.