Summary Of A Long Walk To Water

The author’s purpose in A Long Walk to Water is to show us how the two time zones where different and give us and eye witness on what really happened and what it felt like to experience war. It also shows what the living conditions where back in Sudan and in recent times. The author is trying to teach us how life was and how serious life and death could be during the war. She is trying to teach us how scared children and parents were from losing their families. How the laws where back then for example girls couldn’t go to school. But not all boys went to school, those few individuals work with their dads and at the house working with the cattle. It shows how unprepared they were for war, when students and teacher heard the gunshots