What have the men in Nya’s village started doing now that they have immediate access to water?

How did Salva learn that his father was still alive?

How does Nya feel about the idea of finding water between the two trees?

Why do you think the others are cheering about the muddy water, but Nya is frowning?

Describe the conditions of the Kakuma Refugee Camp.

Why does Uncle tell Salva not to share his water?

Based on the sentence below, infer how Salva feels being at the Ifo refugee camp: “But when they reached the camp at Ifo, they found that things were not different than at Kakuma.”

What do you think makes Salva want to go back to Sudan and help?

What does the author mean by “sometimes he felt he was being torn in two by the hoping and the not-hoping?”

What does Salva mean when he thinks, “it was hard to keep hope alive when there was so little to feed it?”