Hi, hello and welcome to all bookworms reading this post! It’s Phoebe back with a character delve on Nya from Linda Sue Park’s New York Times bestseller, A Long Walk to Water.
I finished reading A Long Walk to Water about a month ago. I am not a super fast reader usually, but I read this book in about a day and a half because it was so interesting to me. Today I’m going to dig deep into Nya’s character and share my thoughts on her and her future. Let’s get started! CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: Nya is an eleven year old girl living in Southern Sudan in the year of 2008. She has lived there all her short life, her family belonging to the Nuer tribe. The fact that Nya’s uncle is the chief of the entire tribe doesn’t give her any luxuries or privileges. She, like the other girls in her tribe, has to trek the long, hot, thorn-y, walk to fetch water for her family. Nya does this twice every day, stopping at home in between only to empty the water she had fetched and get a bowl of milk. Nya can’t even imagine what her life would be like without making that walk every day. It’s routine and just what had to be done. One day, Nya notices strange men in her village—not from her tribe—who came in to talk with her uncle about some new project. When the men start building some foreign contraption, Nya becomes even more curious, and awfully confused. The men continue working and working with everyone in the village helping—laying concrete tiles, pounding down rocks, or doing some other task that was assigned to them. When this structure is done, will Nya still have to walk miles and miles to find water? MY THOUGHTS ON NYA: I think Nya is incredible. She must be so strong and patient to be able to walk the half-day’s walk to water multiple times a day. Nya had to make so many sacrifices for her family, specifically her little sister and I admire how she did all of that without complaining once. I can imagine Nya’s future going in several directions but one of those is I think she may grow to help other people in Africa have water available to them without walking miles and miles to find it. Or, since her uncle is the chief, I could imagine her staying with her tribe to help lead them (although she wouldn’t actually be chief, she might end up being sort of an assistant or someone who’s very involved). SEE YOU SOON I'll be back soon with another book-y post! Love, Phoebe—Head Worm:)
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