Answer: She wanted to recapture mungo park of wonder and determination.
Explanation: Salak decided on the journey alone on a kayak, because she was hoping to recapture Mungo Park's sense of wonder and determination. Salak's trip was deeply a personal trip, which she used in sharing her fears.
Her main motive for undertaking the journey was to buy back the two Bella slave women.
Salak learns that after her difficult journey, her normal life is very repetitious and that her life on the river was unpredictable. She also felt like she was one with the river.
The theme of The Lottery is that blindly following tradition can be dangerous. This story explores the concept of unquestioningly following past ways and not asking the reason behind doing things. We see that this ignorance eventually leads to the loss of life, and for seemingly no purpose.
