A Long Walk to Water, It's excersise, essentially.

 Hello my friends, and welcome, welcome to blogging it up round 3. The greatest thing about round 3 is that it comes after rounds 1 and 2, respectively. The other great factor is that it comes right before number 4, which is the end. This semester has been started off rather well, with a reading of the first 48 pages or so of "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park. The story is a time-traveler, as it alternates between two different stories of africans in alternative time periods.
     The first, is Nya, who lives in the oh-so-prosperous time period of 2008. the other is the life of a young sudanese boy named Salva, Salva Dut. Throughout the tale I could not help but notice the similarities between the life and actions of Salva, and those of a holocaust victim. The long walk to water is an African genocide, really. The group Salva joins up with after his school is shot up by extremists goes for days without food, and walks almost 19 hours a day. This is an eerie similarity to the death marches that took place in the holocaust.
     Within the first 48 pages Salva loses his one friend that he has actually met on the journey, to, you guessed it, a lion attack. In the dead of night, Marial had been swept away by a mysterious cat of the desert. Much like Roy being drug off the stage by his beloved tiger back in the day. The book carries a lot of realism with it, seeing how it is based off of a true story. It's not actually a bad read, much better than that pirate ninja business I've been reading about on the ning.
I've been asked to describe this book in one word: Thebestbookyouwilleverreadthattakesplaceapproximatelywherethelionkinghappenswhichmakesitawesome.

Salva Dut, In all his glory, Drinking Water, at long last