She provides food for herself and tries to survive from day to day on the island alone by constantly weighing the risks and hazards she might encounter. Therefore, she can be described as a tough girl with a great power of endurance. She is also very innovative as she creates her own clothing and jewelry with cormorant feathers and fixes the leaking canoe with yucca fibers.
Her great aptitude in handling animals enables her to become friends with them, which highly eases her sense of loneliness. Especially the relationship with the leader of the wild dogs, Rontu, is important for her. Ramo Ramo is the little brother of Karana. He has a close relationship to his older sister and wants to overtake the tasks a man has to fulfill, even though he is just a little boy.
As a male and son of the dead chief, he feels responsible to provide for them, as it is prescribed by the tribe. For him she is willing to leave her tribe, jumps from the ship heading towards the mainland and swims back to the island where Ramo was.
When she reaches him, she thinks: The only thing that made me angry was that my beautiful skirt of yucca fibers, which I had worked on so long and carefully, was ruined. She prefers a life rather without her tribe than without Ramo and would always care for him. 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.
In the same way, Karana repeats over and over that the Aleuts 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. 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. Because Karana's story spans eighteen years, we are able to watch her personal and moral growth. As the only human on the island of he blue dolphins, Karana is left to develop her own moral code. Chapter 9 Quotes. Related Characters: Karana speaker.
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The village already knows about the ship, so the men take their Captain Orlov The sea surrounding the Island of Chapter 2. The Island The villagers enjoy the rest of the fish and celebrate that Chapter 3. The Aleuts hunt otter in the kelp every day. From the cliffs, Karana watches their canoes skim through the water and spears fly at the otter. In the Karana knows her father believes the Aleuts will leave soon—he sent young men to build a Chapter 4.
The men take their weapons to the beach, and the women—including Karana and Ulape—hide in the brush on the cliff. Karana watches the Aleuts load bundles of Captain Orlov insists that there The storm rolls in as Ulape and Karana race for the beach. Most of the men are wounded, and their father is dead Chapter 5. They burn the Aleut bodies and spend the next few days Kimki assigns everyone jobs. Karana and Ulape are tasked with gathering abalone on the rocks, and Ramo is assigned the Chapter 6.
Matasaip encourages everyone to stay calm and pack only necessities. Karana , however, packs her yucca skirt and her otter cape.
She follows the villagers to the Karana and the villagers wait, afraid to start a fire to cook breakfast. Finally, while Ramo Chapter 7. The villagers pack their baskets excitedly. Karana packs whalebone needles, an awl, a knife, cooking pots, and a box of jewelry. There are two boats and four white men on the beach. Aside from Nanko, all the men—and Ramo—are already on the ship. The women Finally, she reaches the surface Chapter 8.
Karana and Ramo climb the trail, but the blowing sand makes it hard to see. Ramo and Karana spend the day gathering food. They find more than enough to eat, but Karana has Even if Ramo is the chief now, Karana has no intention of letting him get a canoe alone.
But when she wakes up Karana gathers mussels as she waits, wondering if the ship will actually return for her and Karana carries Ramo home and then scares the dogs off with a club. Chapter 9. Many days pass and she only leaves the village Instead, she makes weapons to protect herself from the dogs Karana starts to dig small holes in the sand, figuring the storms covered the chest up Karana forgets all about weapons until, days later, the dogs howl under her rock.
She watches Chapter She spends most of her time on her For five days, she sleeps at the bottom of Karana selects the smallest canoe, which is still almost too big for her to handle. About halfway through the night, Karana discovers that the canoe is leaking. She bails out the water in the canoe until Karana lets the canoe drift. The thought of going back after working so hard is painful—and Karana wakes up that night when she feels waves at her feet.
The following morning, Karana starts to hunt for a good place to build a house. It needs to be Ultimately, Karana decides on the spot for her house because of the sea elephants. Near the western It rains for the next two days. When the rains Several years ago, two whales washed up on the sandspit.
She sets them deep in the After searching for several days, Karana has enough poles for the house. She finishes her house when the winter is half Karana also makes some cooking utensils at this time. She makes bowls to save the juices Karana knows she needs a bigger spear and a bigger bow. She spends weeks searching for Karana barely sleeps the night before she visits the sea elephants. She thinks about the law Karana studies the six ugly bulls and decides to target the smallest. Karana stands, trying to decide where to aim her first arrow.
Bull sea elephants have small But she finds that Karana can barely crawl under her fence due to the pain in her leg.
Her leg In addition to cutting figures The villagers had planned to get rid of them, but then everyone left. Karana believes the pack grew bolder because of the leader, who she believes came with the Then, when the dogs are all in With her spear, Karana goes to look for the leader.
After a while, she goes Karana follows a trail that winds along a cliff until she comes across the broken shaft Karana climbs down again and approaches the leader. She picks him up and carries his limp During the Karana ponders what The canoe is still too big for Karana to easily get in and out of the water, so she decides to take it When Karana finally finishes the canoe, she and Rontu take a trip around the entire island. Karana and Rontu come out in a room like the first one.
Karana spends her time making another dress and working on the spear to catch the devilfish Karana takes her spear to Coral Cove on the first day of spring. Karana pushes the canoe into the water and heads for the reef where devilfish live. After several hours, Karana hides her canoe in the cave she found last fall and hikes up the cliff The two dogs pace around Rontu, and A pair of these birds nests near her house.
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