Resilience
Karana is the main character in Island of the Blue Dolphins. She is the only human being on the island. Living alone on the island tests her resilience, and as the story progresses, Karana grows through her experiences into harmony with herself and the world around her. She learn many new skills and how to fight at what ever that comes her way.
In the the book Karana begins to feel lonely as the wild dogs kill her only family, Ramo. Karana swears that one day she will kill all the wild dogs. When she is on the verge of achieving this goal, however, and has the opportunity to finish off the head of the pack, she does not kill it. Instead she brings the head (whom she later names Rontu) back to her house and nurses him back to health.
Another important aspect of Karana is her resilience. Though the white men's ship doesn't return for her until eighteen years later. Her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly and she never shows signs of despair and she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.
Links:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/summary.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
Thursday, July 5, 2007
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island of the blue dolphins(courage)mike
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. The girl name karana show her great courage and will to survive alone on her small island braving the fierce dogs and the wild weather.In an effort to escape Aleutian seal hunters in the early 1800s, the Indians of Ghalas-at board a ship to leave the Island of the Blue Dolphins. When 12-year-old Karana finds that her younger brother is not on board, she use great courage to dive into the sea and swims back to the island in search of him dispited. Years pass and Karana waits for the ship to return. In the meantime, she builds shelters, gathers food, makes clothing, fashions weapons, and conquers the wild dogs that killed her younger brother.. She lives out her solitary life on this island for many years hoping that a ship will eventually come and take her to where her family and village have moved. It is only after eighteen long years that she is rescued and taken to a mission. It also depicts karana.character whose courage and determination help her survive against nearly impossible odds.
links(http://www.smarter.com/island_of_the_blue_dolphins---pd--ch-1--pi-6572886.html(http://dimdima.com/bookbuzz/show_books.asp?q_bid=80&q_title=Island%20of%20the%20Blue%20Dolphinsre
Forgiveness - NuRuL aka IfAh X)
The first enemy Karana forgives is not a person, but a dog. Rontuis an enemy because he is the leader of the dog pack that killsRamo and threatens Karana. He is also an enemy because he isan Aleut dog, and the Aleuts are Karana’s enemies.
After Ramo is killed and Karana is left alone on Ghalas-at, she has many enemies and no friends. She is harassed constantly by the wild dogs of her island, and lives with the vague fear in the back of her mind that one day the Aleuts that killed her people will return to the island. Eventually, Karana is forced into confrontation both with the wild dogs and with the Aleuts. In each case she has the opportunity to take her revenge, but doesn't. The case of Tutok is the most important of these because it shows the development of Karana's trust in more detail and to a deeper extent (in the case of Rontu, the only thing Karana and Rontu to show trust was refrain from killing each other). In the case of Tutok, Karana is mistrustful because Tutok is an Aleut. She has seen first hand what happens when one deals with these people, and has likely inherited some of the dislike and mistrust her father had for them. Even when Tutok makes friendly gestures, Karana is aloof and assumes that Tutok will betray her to the Aleut hunters. It takes a long time for Karana to see that Tutok has no ill intent, but it is some time before Karana makes a gesture of trust on her own. When Karana reveals her secret name to Turok, it is her ultimate sign of trust, for she ascribed her father's death to his decision to reveal his secret name to someone not worthy of trust. What Karana receives from her trust is a rewarding relationship that she will remember and think about for the rest of the novel.
Links :
http://www.scholastic.com/Kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins.pdf
http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
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Summary (Survival) - Naimah
1) Karana, a Native American girl, is accidentally left alone when her people abandon their island home off the coast of California (Island Of the Blue Dolphins). After a failed attempt to leave the island in a leaky canoe, Karana decides to build a house and learn to hunt while waiting to be rescued. Her isolation from humans teaches her how to co-exist peacefully with the local wildlife, even the wild dog she considers her worst enemy. After many years, missionaries come to the island, and Karana, yearning for human companionship, goes with them to the mainland.
2) When the rest of Karana's tribe leaves to find help, Karana finds herself in a position where she has to fight to survive until someone returns for her. Karana spent a lot of time gathering food. An island girl is separated from her tribe and must learn how to survive on her own. Through threats of wild animals, natural disasters, and invaders, Karana learns to apply her skills toward keeping herself alive.
3) When a tribe of islanders leaves their home in search of a safer place to live, they accidentally leave behind a twelve-year old girl and her young brother. The boy is soon killed by wild dogs, and Karana swears to devote the rest of her life to destroying the wild dogs who killed her little brother. Karana must learn, through various hardships, to get by without the help or wisdom of her tribe. She is not lonely; eventually she befriends and tames various wild animals, including the leader of the wild dogs. After years of hating the dogs, she slowly comes to realize that it is easier to live in peace than to be constantly at war.
Taken from :
1) http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/dolphins/guide.cfm
2) http://astore.amazon.com/science-books-20/detail/0440439884
3) http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Island-Blue-Dolphins.html
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Resilience
Another important aspect of Karana is her resilience. Though the white men's ship doesn't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.
Karana and her brother, Ramo,waited for the white men's ship to return to the island for them. Karana waited for them for 18 years, but Ramo only waited for about less than 1 year. Ramo died from attacks of the wild dogs in the island. Karana is often sad about Ramo's death, when she think about the fear when she saw the wild dogs and sea elephants.Her father had also died from the shot of the Aleuts.Now her family is gone and left her alone in the island.But she overcomed the fear and sadness. She never gives up and always look ahead to her next task on the island. ..
Karana also would use the materials available to create what she needs.Karana fights for her survival with the skills and tools of her culture. She builds a shelter for herself, largely from whale ribs, and makes spears, nets and many household items that she requires.
Links : http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223historical2.htm
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/Indbibl/bibcalif.html
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Courage
Karana, an Indian girl, lives happily with her people on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. It is an island in the Pacific that gets its name from its beautiful shape — from above it looks like a dolphin lying on its side, "with its tail pointing toward sunrise," sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds thrive. Karana's people live in harmony among the other animals on and around the island as they have for generations. Her father is the chief of the village. And then one day a boat comes captained by a Russian man, who "looked at the little harbor as though it already belonged to him." The captain and his crew wish to hunt sea otter on their own terms. Their disregard for the ways of the Indians leads to bloody consequences, and Karana's family is destroyed, and eventually with the arrival of more white men, the entire community disappears from the island, save Karana.
For years she lives on the island alone, using the skills of her people to survive. For the first time, she modifies the skills only the men of her village had mastered. She makes a fence from the ribs of a whale. She builds a house. Eventually she becomes comfortable alone. She befriends one of the wild dogs, and the blue dolphins still give her strength. But she will not be alone for much longer.
1.http://content.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=2353
Based on the true story of the last woman of San Nicholas, ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHIN is written as a first person account of a young woman's survival. The Aleut hunters who came to the island to hunt otter killed most of the men of Ghalas-at and plundered the villages. When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother. Based on the true story of the last woman of San Nicholas, ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHIN is written as a first person account of a young woman's survival. The Aleut hunters who came to the island to hunt otter killed most of the men of Ghalas-at and plundered the villages. When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe. After many moons and suns, she realizes that her people won't be coming back for her. As the years go by, Karana learns to respect all of the animals of the island, and eventually tames Rontu, the dog who had killed her brother.
2.http://www.literatureplace.com/bookfolios/bookfolio.asp?BookfolioID=138
Karana progresses through several states of loneliness during her time on the island. When she is first stranded, and he brother is with her, she does not mention feeling any loneliness at all. Though she is worried about herself and her brother, she does not feel any lonelier than she did with her people. This is because she has the benefits both of human companionship and of the hope that the white men's ship will return to take them away. After Ramo is killed, Karana is sad, but still not so lonely, because she knows that any day she could see the white men's ship on the horizon. Karana's first winter on the island is the most difficult for her, because her hope of being rescued any time soon dies with the coming of the first winter storm. This is Karana's point of deepest despair in the novel, when she sets out on her own for the land to the east. When Karana returns from her trials on the sea, she sees her island in a whole new light; she sees it as her home. The familiarity of the island reduces her loneliness, but does not replace what she had before. When Karana meets Rontu, she finally has someone to talk to. Not until then does she realize how lonely she had been on the island. Rontu is nice to talk to, but he never talks back. It is not until Karana meets Tutok that she has someone to talk with. Again, Karana had not known how lonely she had been without Tutok. Each level of loneliness is tolerable until Karana experiences something better. This is a problem for Karana when Tutok leaves, because she now feels the empty space in her life that Tutok had filled. The desire to have someone to talk with lingers with Karana for the rest of he story, and it is probably the main reason she decides in the end to leave her home and go out into the unknown.
3.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
Summary
After the death of karana's father,Karana and her tribe decided to leave the island for good,but knowing that her brother was not on board she quickly search for him and found out that he was not on board and thinking that the ship will turn back for her brother but did not she jumped of the ship showing not only how strong her kinship is with her brother but also courage to live with her brother although she was furious that she spoiled her best handmade skirt.Having a thought that the ship will return for them one day,Karana and her brother have a light hope for the returning ship but little do they know that on the way to the white men's island they ship sunk into the sea for there was a storm on their way on.Karana and her brother hunted food to keep on surviving but on one faithful day Karana's brother was killed by the dogs and she swear that she will take revenge for him.Never the less did she knew that he became friends with a dog that is the leader of the wild dogs,they became best friends and whenever Karana felt lonely she can always chat with Rontu-her dog's name.She was given alot of trust by Rontu and his son.Keeping her save from dangers while keeping her company.Giving her courage to live and stay healthy untill one day the white men came to take her to their island which is the place where she can start a new life.
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isWAryA
WHEN A PERSON FIGHTS FOR HIS RIGHTS AND WHEN IT IS CONNECTED TO THE REAL WORLD IS LIKE YOUR FRIEND TELLING EVERYONE IN YOUR CLASS THAT YOU STEAL HIS HANDPHONE WHEN YOU DID NOT STEAL AND THATS WHEN YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS.
WHEN PEOPLE CARRY WEAPONS WITH THEM IT MEANS THEY ARE TRYING TO PROTECT YOURSELF OR SOMEONE AND WHEN IT IS CONNECTED TO THE REAL WORLD IS LIKE THE POLICE GIVING PROTECTION FOR A PRESIDENT.
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Moral development
Summary (taken bits from each examples):
When Karana is first left alone on the island, her moral ideology is more or less identical to that of her people. As the story progresses, however, Karana develops her own moral code. The laws of Karana's tribe forbid women from making weapons, a fact that Karana struggles with constantly as she pits superstition against necessity. The first time she makes weapons, she is very fearful; the second time she is less fearful but still nervous; the third time, when she makes the spear to catch the devilfish, she does so without any misgivings. Indeed, she makes that spear almost as a hobby, for catching devilfish is not a necessity.After Karana has befriended a number of the animals of the island, she decided not to kill anymore animals on the island again kill any of these animals. This is a significant decision, because she is dependant on a number of these animals for material.When she was first marooned, she used animals for food and tools and clothing. However, she considers animals to be very much like people, even though they do not talk. She knows that her tribesmen would consider her resolution ridiculous, but her animal friends are so important to her that she cannot bear to kill them.
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FORGIVENESS
FORGIVENESS
Karana finds on her island is a capacity for understanding and forgiveness. These come mainly through her need for companionship. By the end of chapter eight, Karana has two sworn enemies: the Aleuts and the wild dogs. When the wild dogs kill Ramo, Karana swears to herself that one day she will kill them all. Although she is motivated partially by a desire protect her own safety, there is a vindictive air to her vow. When she is on the verge of achieving this goal, however, and has the opportunity to finish off the leader of the wild dogs, she does not take it. Instead she brings the pack leader (whom she later names Rontu) back to her house and nurses him back to health. Though she admits she does not understand her own actions, she is later glad of them, for Rontu becomes Karana'a close friend and companion in a world where she is otherwise alone.
Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
In the same way, Karana repeats over and over that the Aluets are her enemies, and that she is afraid what will happen to her if they find her on the island. However, when Karana is surprised by the Aleut girl, Tutok near her house, she does not attack, though she is in easy reach of her spear. Again, Karana does not know what stayed her hand, and is initially distrustful of Tutok, but eventually Tutok, like Rontu, becomes Karana's friend. Both of these cases highlight not only Karana's need for companionship, but also her ability to forgive and to see past the labels of those around her. She gave Rontu and Tutok a chance in spite of her fear, and her reward was friendship.
Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
Karana's growing aversion to unnecessary killing develops the theme of community. She chooses to rescue and domesticate the otter—a gesture of protest against the Aleuts and Russians who come from the north to massacre the otters for their fur—and decides not to shoot an arrow at a sea lion that could provide her with ivory needed for implements. She waits until two battling male sea lions provide her with a dead animal in the natural order of things. These decisions culminate in her refraining from killing the enemy Aleut girl, Tutok. Even though Karana is especially afraid of the girl, who might betray her to the other Aleuts, she withholds her weapons, and a fruitful friendship ensues. In the cases of both Rontu and Tutok, Karana's ability to put compassion and forgiveness above vengeance is rewarded by friendship. But her friendship with Tutok causes Karana to feel more deeply her need for human society, and after her friend's departure, Karana looks forward with renewed intensity to the day of her rescue.
Information from: http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins
SUMMARY
Karana needs companionship as she is lonely in her island. After the wild dogs killed Ramo, she swears to kill all of them one day. Although she is motivated partially by a desire protect her own safety, there is a vindictive air to her vow. When she is on the verge of achieving this goal, however, and has the opportunity to finish off the leader of the wild dogs, she does not take it. Instead she brought Rontu, the pack leader back to her house and nurses his health. Karana is glad she had chosen to nurse his health and not killed Rontu.
Karana mentioned that the Aluets are also Karana's enemies and that she is afraid what will happen to her if they find her on the island. Karana met Tutok and she is one of the Aluet but she do not attack even though she is in easy reach of her spear. Karana is initially distrustful of Tutok but eventually, Tutok, like Rontu, becomes Karana's friend. Both of these cases highlight not only Karana's need for companionship, but also her ability to forgive and to see past the labels of those around her. In both cases of Rontu and Tutok, Karana's ability to put compassion and forgiveness above vengeance is rewarded by friendship.
Karana chooses to rescue and domesticate animals and not killing them. For example, the otter - a gesture of protest against the Aleuts and Russians who come from the north to massacre the otters for their fur - and decides not to shoot an arrow at a sea lion that could provide her with ivory needed for implements. Karana culminate in her refraining from killing the enemy Aleut girl, Tutok. Karana is specially afraid of Tutok, who might betray her to the Aluets. But her friendship with Tutok causes Karana to feel more deeply her need for human society, and after her friend's departure, Karana looks forward with renewed intensity to the day of her rescue.
Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
: http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/language-arts/book-notes/island-blue-dolphins
DEFINITION OF WORDS :
1. vindictive: meaning - disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful.
2. initially: meaning - of, pertaining to, or occurring at the beginning; first.
3. aversion: meaning - a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy.
4. domesticate: meaning - to take (something foreign, unfamiliar, etc.) for one's own use or purposes; adopt.
5. massacre: meaning - the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
6. ivory: meaning - the hard white substance, a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant, walrus.
7. culminate: meaning - to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development.
8. withholds: meaning - to hold back; restrain or check.
9. vengeance: meaning - infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge.
10. intensity: meaning - great energy, strength, concentration, vehemence, etc., as of activity, thought, or feeling.
Definitions from: http://dictionary.com/
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Forgivenss - NuRuL aka IfAh
The first enemy Karana forgives is not a person, but a dog. Rontu
is an enemy because he is the leader of the dog pack that kills
Ramo and threatens Karana. He is also an enemy because he is
an Aleut dog, and the Aleuts are Karana’s enemies.
Website summary:
http://www.scholastic.com/Kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins.pdf
The heroine's many virtues:
- Will to survive.
- Self-reliance, ingeniousness, adaptability. She is knowledgeable about her tribe's skills, and creative in devising replacements for the animals she renounces killing.
- Compassion and forgiveness.
- Patience and Foresight. She is willing to wait for the right season, she makes plans for the future.
- Optimism. She makes the best of her situation--when she finds she cannot flee, she commits to making the island her home by building a shelter.
- High self-esteem. She rejoices in her own accomplishments. She shows respect for herself by dressing and looking her best even though there is no one to see her.
http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
Website Summary:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/themes.html
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Resilience- dasheni
One of karana's aspect is her resilience. Though the white men's ship dosen't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows sign of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She always looking ahead to her new task on the island.
taken from:http://sparknotes.com/dolphins/canalysis.html
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Resilience ------------- zilu (new)
When Karana's father died she was not breaken down , her sister , brother and herself continued to follw the other's plan and prepared to go to another island. When she knew that her brother was not on the ship , and the asking was not useful , she did not continued staying on the ship , she dived into the sea and swam to Island of the blue dolphins. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up, she continued to kill the wild dogs.Karana shows she is a good person that can humor the changing environment . She build for herself a one-woman civilization, adapting her lost tribe's traditions to her unique circumstances, and taking creative new approaches to unexpected occurrences.Though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island. We know that Karana cares deeply for others even at the very beginning of the novel, as is demonstrated when she plunges into the sea to go back to the island for her brother. Later, she is faced with different types of decisions. Faced with the necessity of hunting and defending herself from the wild dogs, Karana need to make weapons, something that the laws of her tribe forbid women to do. The stories say that weapons made by women will break just when one needs them most. After long deliberation, however, Karana decides to make a set of weapons for herself, and soon realizes that the old tales were false. This chapter also shows that tribal traditions strongly govern the lives of the characters. Kimki's decision to renounce the division of labor in the people of Ghalas-at was made out of necessity, and allowing women to do the work once given only to men prove quite useful and effective. However, this change makes the men of the village angry, and eventually Kimki restores the old order. The women are, in reality, as good as or better than the men at the men's jobs (as Karana explains in chapter five), and thus the division of labor is revealed as arbitrary. Even so, the men consider tasks such as hunting to be rightfully theirs, and the strength of such tradition is enough to bring things back to the way they were .This girl loses her entire family, including the little brother she stayed to save, and then spends most of the rest of her life alone on an island. The very matter-of-factness of the narrative bothered me. It was one thing to voluntarily spend a year away from your family, like Sam Gribley in My Side of the Mountain (a childhood favorite of mine which I did re-read several times), but to lose everyone? With no idea what happened to them, or if anyone would ever come back for you? I didn't like that at all.
References:
1. http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
2. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
3. http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/2007/05/island-of-blue-dolphins.html
4. http://www.buildingrainbows.com/review.php/reviewid/7523
5. http://www.millbury.k12.ma.us/shaw/karanaessay.html
6. http://www.lsu.edu/faculty/jpullia/3223historical2.htm
7. http://www.amazon.de/Island-Dolphins-Illustrated-American-Classics/dp/0395536804
8. http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4076/booksnewkids.html 9.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section3.rhtml
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Survival
Link:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section7.rhtm
3) Karana knows many skills because she involve in the task of daily living.After she is the only one left in the island she must do things that once adult do it before for her.She also must build a house to protect form animals and the weather.She also make friends in the island.I believe she will tresure her friends nicely.
Link:http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/pdfs/Island_of_pt3.pdf
Summary:She build a house,make a weapon,befriend with animals.Karana has many skills because in her culture children are very involved in the tasks of daily living. She knows how to gather and prepare food and how to make clothing, for instance. But after Karana is left alone on the island, she must do many more things that adults once did for her. She has to make a shelter to protect herself from animals and the weather. She has to improvise tools, repair the canoes, and make weapons.She also learns that survival means more than just keeping yourself alive,She also must take care of her needs for friendship,comfort, and pleasure, too.
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Resilience
Another important aspect of Karana is her resilience. Though the white men's ship doesn't return for her for eighteen years, and though her efforts to establish a comfortable life on the island are repeatedly thwarted, she never shows signs of despair. Karana is often sad, as when her brother was killed, or frightened, as when she was injured by the sea elephant and stalked by wild dogs, but she never gives up. She is always looking ahead to her next task on the island.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/terms/charanal_1.html
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Forgiveness-HiDfReAk
After Karana's brother died and she was left alone,she was scared.At that time she has no friends nor family left.She wanted to take revenge on the dog but she think again and at last she do forgive them.She thinks that they are like humans and she even became close to the leader of the wild dogs.As the story progress, a new aluets girl came.At first she hated her and is suspisious of her.But then,she thinks that she need to learn how to forgive and forget.They became good friends and she learnt how to adapt to her new life with only she,the aluet girl and some animal.
www.bookloons.com/cgibin/Review.asp?bookid-=7494
Survival
Summary of the websites:
Karana is a smart and innovative girl who uses her knowledge of the world surrounding her to ensure her survival at the Island Of The Blue Dolphin. Stucked there,she has to remember what her tribe has tought her previously. Although there were many challenges, she remains intent* not only on survival but also making her life happy and a simple one.She also has to find her own strengths she never knew she had in order to survive.
In this chapter, Karana and Ramo enjoyed each other's company, and Ramo even said that he would rather be on the island of the blue dolphins with alone his sister other than having people around. She start to wonder whether the white men's ship will ever come and begins to experience fear for the first time since she was left on the island with Ramo. Her fear becomes panic when Ramo does not return, and to anger when she finds him dead. Karana's loneliness grows when she realizes just how alone she is without her brother.
Survival skills are skills that may help one to survive dangerous situations (such as storms or earthquakes), or in dangerous places (such as the desert, the mountains and the jungle). Useful skills include lighting a fire, making water safe to drink and so on.
One of the first rules of survival in general is there are no rules. The amount of variables is impossible to predict.First and foremost, the body requires one thing more than all others to survive…water. Without water we cannot make it more than a few days in most of any region. In some extreme cases without water, we will be lucky to make it a day. Fortunately in the tropics there is a fair amount of rain thus generating a good supply of fresh water.
* Intent means determined to do something or achieve something.
Links:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section5.rhtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_skills http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/survivedeserted_tuak.htm
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Island-Blue-Dolphins.html
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COURAGE
Chief Matasaip explains to Karana that they cannot wait for Ramo, because if they do, the ship will be wrecked against the rocks. Then, though many people try to restrain her, Karana jumps off the boat into the water and swims back to shore.
Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/section4.rhtml
When the remaining islanders departed for a nearby haven, twelve-year-old Karana, realizing her younger brother Ramo has been left behind, jumps from the boat and swims back to the island to take care of him. She gathers food, builds shelter, and makes tools to survive. In order to take revenge against the wild dogs that killed her brother, Karana must make weapons, something that had been forbidden to the women of the tribe.
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While rowing, Karana sees a hawk fly out of the cave and goes in to explore. Inside, she and Rontu find a row of figures made from reeds and clothed in gull feathers. Their eyes are made from abalone shells and glitter eerily. In the center of these figures sits a skeleton playing a pelican bone flute. Karana goes to leave the cave, but the tide has gone up and covered the entrance. She and Rontu thus have to spend the night in the cave with the strange figures and the skeleton. When Karana and Rontu leave the next morning, Karana names the cave "Black Cave" and vows never to return there again.
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SUMMARY:
From the first source, when Chief Matasaip told Karana that they can't wait for Ramo, Karana jumps into the sea and tries to swim back to the island while her elder sister, Ulape does not even care for Ramo. This shows that Karana has empathy for her brother and her courage to jump into the sea, giving up the good life she would have if she were to board the ship.
From the second source, after her brother, Ramo was killed by the wild dogs, she vowed to kill the pack of wild dogs but as she needed weapon to kill them but as it is against the Ghalas-at's rules for women to make weapons. In order to take revenge, she gathered up her courage and ignored the rule and went ahead with weapons-making .
And lastly from the third source, when Karana saw a hawk fly out of a cave, she went in. Inside the cave was filled with skeletons that makes her so petrified that she decided to leave immediately. But the tide was up and this prevented her from leaving. Thus, she summon all her courage and spent a night there together with Rontu.
