Island of the Blue Dolphins | Characters
There is only one character for most of the story in Island of the Blue Dolphins, the fourteen-year-old (at the beginning) Karana; readers see, hear, and react entirely through her. Through her eyes they see her father, chief of the tribe, killed by the invading Aleuts from the north; readers share in her decision to jump off the ship that comes to evacuate the tribe because her younger brother was accidentally left on the island; she soon loses her brother to wild dogs and is thenceforth entirely alone, except for the brief encounter, months later, with the Aleut girl. Karana has...
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