Read the following passage from A Long Walk to Water. In this excerpt, Salva, an eleven-year-old boy, is running away from war and joins a new group of refugees.
The old woman gave Salva a bag of peanuts and a gourd for drinking water. He thanked her and said goodbye. Then he caught up with the group, determined not to lag behind, not to complain, not to be any trouble to anyone. He did not even ask where they were going, for fear that his questions would be unwelcome.
He knew only that they were Dinka and that they were trying to stay away from the war. He had to be content with that.
The days became a never-ending walk. Salva's feet kept time with the thoughts in his head, the same words over and over: Where is my family? Where is my family?
Every day he woke and walked with the group, rested at midday, and walked again until dark. They slept on the ground. The terrain changed from scrub to woodland; they walked among stands of stunted trees. There was little to eat: a few fruits here and there, always either unripe or worm-rotten. Salva's peanuts were gone by the end of the third day.
After about a week, they were joined by more people—another group of Dinka and several members of a tribe called the Jur-chol. Men and women, boys and girls, old and young, walking, walking. . . .
Walking to nowhere.
Salva had never been so hungry. He stumbled along, somehow moving one foot ahead of the other, not noticing the ground he walked on or the forest around him or the light in the sky. Nothing was real except his hunger, once a hollow in his stomach but now a deep buzzing pain in every part of him.
From Linda Sue Park, A Long Walk to Water. Copyright 2010 by Linda Sue Park
Which of the following best describes how Salva interacts with the other refugees?