(1)confronts : To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility

(2)skirmish : A minor battle in war, as one between small forces or between large forces avoiding direct conflict.

(3)disgruntled : to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.

(4)slinking : to walk or move in a slow, sinuous, provocative way.

One 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.

(1)http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dolphins/canalysis.html
(2)http://www.sanedraw.com/NOTEBOOK/ISLANDBD.HTM
(3)http://teacherweb.com/NC/LJCDS/Amber/h0.stm

Attention to group 5

I got to say is that i didn't see any jun kit's post,so please post something,jun kit,or else i tell miss chia that you didn't participate,thank you.

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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

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.
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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