In Scott O’dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins, Indian girl Karana is abandoned and alone on an island. In the beginning, Karana and her tribe live peacefully on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Then, alien newcomers, the Aleuts come to their land to hunt otters. Though initially agreeing to share their earnings with Karana's tribe, the lucrative Aleuts decide to keep everything for themselves. As a result, Chief Chowig, Karana’s father and the men of the tribe have an altercation with the Aleuts, leaving him and a momentous amount of others dead. The new chief decides to sail Karana’s tribe to a new land, leaving the Island of the Blue Dolphins behind. Ramo, Karana’s younger brother doesn’t make it to the ship in time, and is left behind. Consequently, …show more content…
To prove himself worthy he leaves early in the morning to get a canoe. When he does not return, Karana goes to look for him, only to find him dead, surrounded by the wild dogs. Thus, Karana is the only human left on the island. Proceeding Ramo’s death, Karana burns everything in her village and goes to live on a rock on Coral Cove. Here, she makes weapons, which she plans to use to kill the wild dogs. Karana starts a new life by building a house on the headland, close to the home of the wild dogs. Every day she salvages for food and watches for the ship to return. One day, Karana tries to leave the Island of the Blue Dolphins. She takes a canoe in the direction where the ship left, hoping to reach the new island, but has to return to the Island of the Blue Dolphins due to a leak in her canoe. Eventually, Karana builds a life for herself. Though killing a few of the wild dogs, Karana takes pity on the leader, saves him from death, and makes him her companion. He names him Rontu. Years later, the Aleuts return, this time bringing a girl. In time, Karana befriends the girl, Tutok, and they talk and laugh until the day the Aleuts leave. In the years following, Rontu dies and Karana tames his son. She names him Rontu-Aru, and they continue to live life on the Island of the Blue
This book report deal with the Native American culture and how a girl named Taylor got away from what was expected of her as a part of her rural town in Pittman, Kentucky. She struggles along the way with her old beat up car and gets as far west as she can. Along the way she take care of an abandoned child which she found in the backseat of her car and decides to take care of her. She end up in a town outside Tucson and soon makes friends which she will consider family in the end.
...hes her in the face and kicks her. He is disgusted with her. He then turns and leaves. Kino makes his way up the beach as a group of men assault him. Kino struggles to get away and while doing so he stabs one of the men and kills him. Juana finally gets on her feet and begins to make her way home. She sees Kino lying on the group hurt with another man dead next to him. She hauls the dead man into the brush and tends to Kino. She says they must run away immediately because of what a terrible crime Kino committed. Kino refuses at first, but then agrees. Juana runs back to the house grabs Coyotito, while Kino goes to the beach once again to prepare his boat, but realizes that the group of men made a hole in it. He becomes full of rage and kicks at the water. He then tells Juana what happened and they decide to hide at Juan Tomas’s house for a while.
David Kirby’s book describes the complex issues of whales in captivity. The death of a SeaWorld trainer brought up many objective reasons of the training practices of this business were not effective at keeping trainers safe in the water. Currently this debate is still being tested in a court of law. OSHA claims that even with the precautions that SeaWorld tries to use, it still cannot guarantee the safety of trainers in the water. This cultural topic has been gaining ground, and recently prompted a movie based off this book titled, Blackfish. The audience of this book includes animal activists, followers of David Kirby, and people that are interested in the topic of killer whales in captivity. Rob Grom was contracted to create a book jacket that would visually depict the context of the David Kirby’s book. The photographer uses his work to persuade people to look into the claims of the book and see another side of the animal park. Grom’s Photograph image uses the picture, the words of the title, and the subtitle to create a twist of the logos, and uses David Kirby’s ethos to create an appeal to the book.
... She undergoes a change and is positive but doesn’t capitalize on the Native Americans transformations that show they have had some change of heart. As the captivity theme got popular, two authors named Susanna Rowson and Charles Brockden Brown used it to their advantage in creating their own captivity narratives based on fiction. Mary Rowlandson’s story happened to her and they just wanted to write about it. The Native Americans reputations have been destroyed because of this theme and people are not realizing that captivity narratives are from an unfair time in the Native Americans culture.
Dolphins make up the largest and most diverse family of cetaceans. The family contains 26 recognized species of which 13 tend to have long well defined beaks and streamlined robust bodies. Many vary in size, shape, colors, beaks and flippers, as humans have various characteristics.
Mary Rowlandson’s A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson displays this same theme as well. The Narragansett Indians took Rowlandson and her children captive. “All was gone, my Husband gone (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay, and to add to my grief, the Indians told me they ...
O’Dell’s book takes place on an island and he does an excellent job at describing the beach environment around the main character Karana. In The Island of the Blue Dolphins Karana is alone on the island and has a fear of meeting the tribe the Aleuts due to past encounters of them with her tribe. At first Karana hides from them, but throughout the novel she overcomes her fear. By the end of the novel she approaches the next ship that comes to the island and leaves with them. Karana overcame her fear by the end of the novel and learns to forgive her enemies. This story inspired me to write my short story and to have a character overcome their fear of being
Rodrigues reluctantly goes with him, but is unable to trust him, even refusing to sleep. When Kichijiro disappears, he is sure he is turning him in, yet he simply returns with more wood for the fire. Kichijiro repeatedly asks the father if he can ever trust him again. Rodrigues feels as a Christian he should forgive him, but can’t trust him. Kichijiro convinces Rodrigues to eat some dried fish, and after, while walking Rodrigues is in desperate need for water as a result. He regrets eating the fish, but Kichijiro offers to run ahead to get water, returning with a full pitcher. However, a short time later Rodrigues is led to guards who take Rodrigues into custody, and give Kichijiro his reward.
Seaworld is a giant marine life theme park. The greatest attraction to these many theme park would be those killer whales. In fact, these killer whales are the face of the park. As gigant as these mammals are, seaworld is keeping them in some pretty tight quarters. Mr. Jett and Mr.Ventre says “Wild killer whales can swim a hundred miles daily as they socialize, forage, communicate, and breed. In stark contrast, with little horizontal or vertical space in their enclosures, captive orcas swim only limited distances, with most spending many hours surface resting.” The animals don't have the freedom they need. Also when taking the whales out of their natural habit the whales tend to be depressed and not as heath in that situation. They need their freedom in the big ocean blue. Bring them into the small living units, breeding whales in captivity all for the entertainment of humans. At young ages the calves are taken away from their mothers on to a new seaworld park. Mothers of the calves have even been seen denying their offspring.
Ramo was killed by the pack of wild dogs. Karana tried to kill the pack leader of the dogs, but she ended up just wounding him. Later, she cared for and healed the dog. She ended up keeping the dog as her companion. This changed Karana's Life because she lost her brother and wanted revenge. But she end
Russell Bank’s “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” is a short story about a young lady and a young man that are having the difficulty of deciding to keep a baby or have it aborted. The story starts off having the readers unknowing of who the main characters are at all, until the story goes on more. Once we figure out the main characters the story goes into the man and women getting in a green rowboat to go to this island to “fish”. They get to the island and talk about their baby problem. She already makes up her mind saying she is going to have an abortion and his opinion was different. The island is the scene of the story that makes up the character 's behavior in the story.
Eden Robinson is a Haisla writer who was born at Haisla Nation Kitimaat Reserve on 19th January 1968 (“Eden Robinson” 2007). She has a Haisla father and a Heiltsuk mother and spent both her childhood and her adolescence in the Reserve (“Eden Robinson” 2007). Robinson obtained a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of Victoria and also earned a master’s degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (“Eden Robinson” 2007). Monkey Beach is her first novel and was published in 2000 (“Eden Robinson” 2007).
Rowlandson, Mary. A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.In Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives. Ed. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
In the Pacific there is an island shaped like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. 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 her people had left for a new place. She was sure they would come back 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 many different adventures that you can relate to your life in a different fashion.
Did you know in the world there are more than 90 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises? (WDC) The dolphin is a very important animal to the ocean and there are many different types to discover. In order to learn about dolphins, it is important to discuss where they live, their appearance, and what they eat. Some helpful words to understand are “dorsal fin”, a dorsal fin is the top pointed fin on the dolphins back, “flippers”, a flipper is a flat fin that dolphins use to swim, and “echolocation” is a tool dolphins use to find food by sounds bouncing off of objects (dictionary.com).