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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins is based on the true story of a Native American woman who spent 18 years alone on San Nicolas Island, off the coast of California (from about 1835 to 1853). In the...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
At the beginning of chapter 14 of Island of the Blue Dolphins, Karana must go get water from the spring. Due to her injured leg, this is a very difficult journey. Along the way, she encounters the...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana ceases living in the village because it reminds her of the terrible events that led to her isolation on the island. After the battle and strife brought on by the Aleutian hunters, which...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana has managed to live a stripped-down, natural existence alone on the island. For anyone else, this might have been a serious challenge, but not for Karana. Her simple approach to life has...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The protagonist of this story is Karana. That should make sense due to the fact that she is the easily the most central human figure in the entire story. She is the person that readers root for and...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
When Karana leaves the island, her goal is to find a country to the east. She packs some supplies in a canoe and begins her journey on the ocean. To be successful, she must know what direction she...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana first sees Black Cave when she goes off to explore the island. She has prepared herself to survive on the island for some time, and secured her food supply. This gives her the freedom to...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins, the main protagonist, Karana, is also the narrator of the story, as the story is written from her perspective. Karana is trying to kill the wild dogs that...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Ramo dies in tragic circumstances after being set upon by a pack of ravenous dogs. For a brief moment, he was Chief Tanyositlopaim, the last of the male islanders. As he was next in line to be...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
A reader should look at the fifth paragraph of chapter five for the textual evidence that states Karana was not sleeping nor eating well. The text tells us that her sleep was often disturbed by...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In chapter four, the characters in Island of the Blue Dolphins determine that Karna’s father was weakened enough to be killed by the Aleuts because he had given the captain his real, true, and...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In this book, Karana's father is the chief of the island. At the beginning of the book, the Aleuts and their Russian captain come to hunt for sea otters on the island. When they get there, they...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In this book, Rontu changes Karana’s life mainly by making her much less lonely than she had been before she got him. By the time that Karana gets Rontu, she has been alone for months. The dogs...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
As the book progresses, Karana becomes more independent and more skilled at surviving on her own. When the book opens, Karana is describing live with her village, when she lived as part of a tribe....
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
When looking for examples of figurative language in 'The Island The Blue Dolphins' look for places where the writing appeals to the reder's senses, whether that is in a good way, or a 'bad' way.'...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Another major conflict occurs when the Aleutes descend on her island. She is naturally afraid of them, especially when they return the second time, because they betrayed their agreement with her...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The plot of the story is driven by a series of causes and effects. For example,Cause: The Aleuts try to cheat the islanders out of payment for the otter they catch.Effect: There is a fierce...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
There are two major reasons to write the novel from Karana's point of view. First, she is the major character, and is alone for much of the text; telling the story from an omniscient POV (point of...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
When Karana made the decision to build a more permanent home on the island, she narrowed her search based on three criteria. She wanted her home to be protected from wind and weather, near a spring...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In Ch. 9, we see that Karana begins to make weapons because Ramo has been killed and she needs to be able to defend herself from the wild dogs on the island. She gathers enough wood on the beach to...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In order to find the answer to this, just look at the beginning of the book where Chowig tells Orlov his secret name. Karana, as the narrator, tells us why this is a problem. She says that a...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The reason that Karana killed these ten birds was that she wanted to make a skirt for herself. She was going to use the birds' skins and feathers to make herself a skirt. Because she wanted this...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The most predominant type of figurative language is Karana's standard use of metaphor to describe her surroundings. She teases her brother for doing this very thing in Chapter 1, but the reader...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins is based upon a real story in which the Lost Woman of San Nicolas lived alone on an island from 1835 to 1853. Karana is a twelve year-old girl living on the Island of...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The main conflict in this book is resolved through Karana's resourcefulness and her courage. The main conflict in this book is the conflict between Karana and nature (and a few humans). She is...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell's 1960 book Island of the Blue Dolphins is based on a true story and won the Newbery Medal. Karana, the young Indian girl who is marooned on an island, shows many traits of strength...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins is a historical children's novel by Scott O'Dell. Karana, the protagonist, is marooned on an island after her tribe is attacked. Throughout the book, she shows a drive...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Even though she lives alone on the island, Karana takes great pride in her appearance. In chapter 18, we are told that Karana takes time to make a yucca skirt for herself even as she spends time...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
I am not entirely sure what you are looking for from the wording of the question. However, I can tell you that Kimki is chosen as the new leader of the tribe after Karana's father is killed in the...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In Chapter 18, Karana comes across a pair of birds who give birth to babies. Karana puts them in a birdcage so that they can stay with her. The birds eventually outgrow the cage, so Karana clips...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The book opens to Karana and her little brother, Ramo, gathering roots in a canyon above Coral Cove. She quickly identifies Ramo as being half her age, six years old, and small, active and...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana is not really left behind accidentally; it is her brother, Ramo, who is left when the ship sails. Karana is told they cannot go back for him because the tides have made it dangerous to...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
It is inexplicable to the islanders why Chief Chowig gives his secret name after introducing himself to Orlov, a stranger. Karana, who is narrating the story, expresses surprise at his action....
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana decides to leave the island because she realizes that the life she leads on the island, isolated and severed from social connection, is not a viable one. Although she ends up making a life...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In this book, Karana hurts her leg in the time after she has already been left on the island all alone. You can find this right at the end of Chapter 13. She ends up hurting her leg when she has...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana is accidentally left behind when her people leave Ghalas-at (their island). For eighteen years, she lives alone and is solely responsible for her own survival.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In chapter 16 Karana continues to demonstrate the resourcefulness and problem solving abilities that the reader has become accustomed to throughout the first half of the book. In this chapter,...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
I think that you must be talking about the leader of the wild dogs, not the leader of any group of humans. This happens pretty near to the start of Chapter 15. What Karana does is she smokes the...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Could a washed-up log be useful? The answer to this question is somewhat intuitive. People who live on island nations often have limited access to the resources they need to survive. They also have...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana needs to make herself weapons to protect herself from the dogs and to kill them to avenge her brother's death. Karana finds a rock where she can store food until the ship comes in. She does...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
The villagers did not actually spend another winter on their island after the departure of Kimki. Kimki left in early spring, after pondering about his decision throughout the previous winter....
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana destroys the village because it reminds her "of all the people who (are) dead and those who (are) gone". She burns it down so that she will no longer hear "their voices speaking", and so...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Many different caves are mentioned in Scott O'Dell's novel The Island of the Dolphins. In Chapter 20, the protagonist Karana names one of these caves Black Cave.She had been fixing black cormorants...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana does not build her house near the sea elephants because they are extremely noisy. The thing that made me decide on the place to build my house was the sea elephants. (p. 69) The cows are...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana's behavior, attitude, and actions are a result of the actions of others. Karana is motivated by revenge against the Aleuts for the death of her father and against the wild dogs for...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana originally leaves the island with her people, sailing aboard a ship belonging to white missionaries. Her brother Ramo is meant to come along on the voyage too, but he gets left behind....
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Fod cooking seeds, Karana "wove a tight basket of fine reeds...dried (it) in the sun...gathered lumps of pitch...softened them over the fire, and rubbed them on the inside of the basket so...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, Karanas is a young girl of a tribe that lives on an island they call Ghalas-at (the Island of the Blue Dolphins) with her family, including her...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
A great example of the superstitious nature of Karana's people happens in the first chapter of Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. Karana's father is the chief of their tribe, and he is...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
In chapter 6, the village chief, Kimki, has been gone quite awhile. He took a canoe across the ocean to try and reach a land he had been to as a boy (probably Southern California), to get help for...