Island Of The Blue Dolphins :: essays research papers

Is overturn of the Blue Dolphins by Scott ODell     In the Pacific there is an island shaped alike(p) a big fish sunning itself in the ocean. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephant and birds abound. A young Indian girl lives and waits for her people to return for her, from the land to the east. Karana with her long black hair and her dark skin, held her own on an island after(prenominal) her people had left field for a new place. She was sure they would come cover version the next spring, but after two springs she learned to live on her own. I really admire her strength and her will power. She faces so galore(postnominal) antithetic adventures that you can relate to your life in a different fashion.     Living on your own brings in many an(prenominal) new ideas and adventures. Karana has many hard decisions to make, when she has to decided to go with childhood teaching or fending for herself. " I wonder what wo uld happen to me if I went against the law of our tribe which forbade the making of weapons by women would the four winds blow in from the four directions of the world and smother me as I made the weapons? Or would the earth tremble, as many said, and conceal me beneath its falling rocks?" The choice to build weapons saves her life and brings her a fantastic friend. "He stood facing me, his front legs spread as if he was create to spring. The arrow struck him in the chest." This dog had been her enemy he killed her chum and she had vowed revenge on him she had gotten what she wanted, yet she had not killed the dog just wound him. "Why I did not send the arrow I cannot say. I stood on the rock with the bow pulled back and my hand would not permit it go. The big dog lay there and did not move and this may be the reason. If he would have gotten up I would have killed him. I stood there for a long time looking down at him and then I climbed off the rocks and picked him up." This dog became her friend and he salvation. It must have been lonely and she made many friends, otters, she had birds anything to keep her busy. Each spring she hoped that her people would return and take her to the far off land which they had left for.