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Salva Well Character Analysis
A character trait that describes Salva well is the he is a very determined person, this is evident because he made it his job/goal to get to the refugee camp in Ethiopia which is a very long a treacherous walk from his home village. Another reason as to why this is true is because he made a promise to find any one of his family members if they are at the refugee camp and this is a very hard task considering the amount of people already at and are coming into the camp.
Because of Salva’s determination, he proved to his group that he isn’t a little whiny kid, he could have fulfilled his promise by trying to get to somebody who has the same headscarf as his mother (we stopped at a cliffhanger) and he made it to the refugee camp because he knew


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