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Julie of the Wolves
The author describes Miyax's appearance directly four pages into the book. She says,"Miyax was a classic Eskimo beauty, small of bone and delicately wired with strong muscles. Her face was...
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Julie of the Wolves
As a character in part one ("Amaroq, the Wolf"), Julie exhibits the character traits of determination, patience, and brotherhood. First, Julie exhibits determination. Even though Julie is lost on...
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Julie of the Wolves
In Julie of the Wolves, the character known as both Miyax and Julie exhibits many strengths. She is an Alaskan Native girl (called Eskimo in the terminology of the time) who is fleeing an arranged...
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Julie of the Wolves
An example of personification is when the wolves are anthropomorphized, giving human qualities to them. They become Julie's friends and companions on the harsh environment of the tundra. Amaroq,...
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Julie of the Wolves
The first section of the book, entitled "Amaroq the Wolf", is rich in figures of speech.Some examples of personification in the description of the main character's life with the wolves on...
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Julie of the Wolves
In the novel Julie of the Woods, the title character, Julie, whose traditional name is Miyax, bounces back and forth between pursuing traditional and modern ways of life. When Miyax meets Atik and...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax has been staying in the woods with the wolves but she relalizes that the weather is getting worse and she needs to leave. She decides to find a village so that she can get some help from...
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Julie of the Wolves
When the wolves want to express their admiration and homage towards their leader, they bite him gently under the chin. To signal his approval in response to their expression of love, the leader...
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Julie of the Wolves
In short, Miyax is "alone and lost" because she has run away from her mentally ill husband, Daniel, in a desperate attempt to travel to her pen pal, Amy, in San Francisco. Unfortunately, Miyax...
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Julie of the Wolves
There are two Kapugens in the story, one human and one animal. The first of them is Miyax' father, Kapugen. Miyax loves her father, with whom she lives at seal camp for many years in between the...
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Julie of the Wolves
In the story, Miyax is described as a 'classic Eskimo beauty' with a round face, a flat nose, and slanting, black eyes. Her pale beauty is juxtaposed against that of the forbidding white plains of...
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Julie of the Wolves
The wilderness symbolizes escape for Julie. It represents pleasure, virtue, and love. The city life would then represent stress and all of the other headaches that go with the civilized world.I...
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Julie of the Wolves
It's first important to mention the exact moment that Miyax is accepted into the tribe: when she pats the leader, Amaroq, under the chin because "as his eyes softened, ... Miyax was one of the...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax has a name for each member of her "wolf family". She calls the patriarch and leader of the pack, a "regal black wolf", "Amaroq". Amaroq's mate, and the mother...
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Julie of the Wolves
By far the main character in this story is the girl the book is named for. She is called Julie (her white people name) or Miyax (her native name). The only other real human character in my mind is...
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Julie of the Wolves
Tornait is Miyax's last tangible link to her Eskimo heritage in its unsullied form. When the bird dies, Miyax accepts that she has no choice but to accept that things are changing, and that she...
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Julie of the Wolves
In part 1 of Julie of the Wolves, Miyax gains access to food in three specific ways. Initially her hope is that she can befriend the wolf pack, be accepted as one of them, and reap the benefits of...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax throws her i'noGo tied away because it makes her feel different from the more Americanized Eskimo girls. Miyax had lived with her father at seal camp when she was younger, and at the camp had...
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Julie of the Wolves
Although I am not sure what kind of quote you are looking for, I will give you a few that relate directly to one of the central themes in the book - Miyax's search for her cultural identity. Since...
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Julie of the Wolves
The part of the plot that you are asking about is in part one of Jean Craighead George's story. At this point in the book, Julie is referred to by her Eskimo name, Miyax. She is completely lost,...
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Julie of the Wolves
The book is written for young readers, and so has a simple style intended to be easily understood. Instead of using Realism or Naturalism in describing the wolves and nature, the author uses...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax is trying to get to San Francisco because she essentially feels that she has nowhere else to go. Her own life situation has become unbearable, but she has received a friendly letter from a...
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Julie of the Wolves
You can find the answer to this very early in the book -- pages 11 and 12 in one edition of the book. At that point in the book, Miyax is trying to figure out how to deal with the wolves -- how to...
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Julie of the Wolves
This question could be referring to several different parts of the book, but I think that it is likely asking about the opening events in part one of the book. Miyax is afraid because she is lost...
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Julie of the Wolves
This is not really a fair question because Julie is still technically a child throughout the entire book. In fact, Julie is forced into an arranged marriage once she turns thirteen and experiences...
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Julie of the Wolves
There is one very simple explanation as to how Julie survives in the challenging environment of the Alaskan tundra: she uses the "old ways" of the Eskimo to overcome fear. Fear becomes easy for...
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Julie of the Wolves
Kapu brought Julie (Miyax) food, in the form of a caribou leg. Kapu protected Miyax by bringing her a gift of food. Miyax was alone, making the difficult trek on only what small animals could be...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax associates golden brown with memories of her father, as that was the color of his simple little house. She also thinks fondly back to the days of the Bladder Festival, an annual seal hunting...
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Julie of the Wolves
Kapugen is Miyax's father, and he taught her a great deal about wolves. There is not a single location to look for this answer in the story, because Miyax is constantly being reminded of things...
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Julie of the Wolves
The simple answer to your question is that Miyax's father, Kapugen, lives in the town of Kangik at the end of the novel. The longer answer to your question involves Kapugen's history with his...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax's most life threatening predicament is survival. She decided to run away from home and head toward San Francisco to meet her pen pal. Unfortunately Miyax became hopelessly lost. She is way...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax knows from lessons she learned from her father that "time in the Arctic (is) the rhythm of life". She measures the days and nights according to what she knows about the Arctic...
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Julie of the Wolves
The answer to this question can be found within the second part of Julie of the Wolves. When Julie/Miyax is four years old, Kapugen's wife dies. Kapugen is absolutely overwhelmed with grief. His...
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Julie of the Wolves
Actually, Julie does not use what you refer to as an "uno," but she uses a "woman's knife" that is specifically referred to as a "ulo." This ulo is one of the items Julie makes sure to take from...
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Julie of the Wolves
I would say that Julie's tale is told in the omniscient point of view. In an omniscient point of view, "the story is told by the author, using the third person, and his knowledge and prerogatives...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax Kapugen is Julie Edwards. Miyax is her native name and Julie is her modernized name. She is a 13 year-old girl. She has run away from her home because she is being forced into a...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax loses her navigation skills in the tundra because "the barren slope stretches for three hundred miles...no roads cross it...the view in every direction is exactly the same". It is...
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Julie of the Wolves
I don't think we are given any reason to distrust Kapugen's reasoning to his daughter. From what we see of their relationship, and the obvious pleasure that Miyax takes in her life and in the close...
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Julie of the Wolves
Because of the thick summer fog, the wolves, who had accepted Julie as one of their own and had been allowing her to share their meat, could not hunt. The fog diminished visibility to the extent...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax, also known as Julie, never does get to San Francisco. Early on in the story, Miyax pledges to run away from Alaska and from her "terrifying husband" to what she imagines will be the haven of...
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Julie of the Wolves
That is a super cool part of the book. Me, personally, I would be terrified by hanging out with a bunch of wolves. Miyax, though, is completely calm around the wolves. She is calm because she...
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Julie of the Wolves
Julie/Miyax stays alive by cutting and drying caribou meat, curling up into her animal skins, creating a sod shelter, and using all of her innate Eskimo knowledge taught to her by her father,...
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Julie of the Wolves
I believe that the only interaction that Miyax has with the wolves involving a mitten occurs with Kapu, not Amaroq. That incident happens when Kapu is still a pup. Wanting to play, Kapu nips...
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Julie of the Wolves
The town of Kangik is introduced to Julie/Miyax after her adventures with the wolves when she is approached by a citizen from the town and told that her father, Kapugen, who is described as "the...
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Julie of the Wolves
The building of the ice house signifies that Miyax has decided to reject the ways of the white, "civilized" world, and embrace the old Eskimo ways instead. The central theme in the book is Miyax's...
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Julie of the Wolves
Miyax "put down her cooking pot and crept to the top of a dome-shaped frost heave" because she wanted to see the wolves. She had recognized that it was six o'clock in the evening from...
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Julie of the Wolves
When the old Eskimo hunters would talk about someone being wealthy, they were not referring to how much money the person had or how many things. They were talking about wealth in a more spiritual...
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Julie of the Wolves
This question is a bit tricky because I am unsure to which part of the book you are referring. I am going to venture a guess, however, that you are asking about Julie/Miyax when she plans to leave...
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Julie of the Wolves
The answer to this question is quite simple: Julie/Miyax overcomes fear by concentrating on her survival. Allowing fear to overcome her means death to Julie. She must keep her wits about her...
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Julie of the Wolves
Julie/Miyax continually uses the "old ways" of the Eskimo to successfully determine time and space. The first way Julie is successful in determination of time and space is by using natural...