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Island of the Blue Dolphins
: Of all the O'Dell books I have to say this one is the best.
It's about a young indian girl who becomes stranded on an
island and how she manages to survive.I thoroughly enjoyed
this book. I could not put it down. I would recommend this book
to anyone ages 10-14 who loves to read,like me.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell Do you think that you can forever depend on your family and friends? Do you think they will forever be there for you? People seem to forget that as you get older you got to start your own life, get on, do things for yourself, be independent and organize. We teen cannot depend on our love ones forever, who may know what's going to happen. We got to learn to depend, help and survive on our own. So when something happen we will know what to do. Karana will take you on a journey to realize and learn how hard life is when your love ones separate or pass away. You will learn to understand that it takes risks and many things to survive on your own.
Every since when the Aleuts came and destroy their homes, Karana was left behind with her brother and the other survivors. As time goes by the survivors moved out of the island and left Karana and her brother (Ramo) behind. She loves her brother very much and she always want the best for him. She taught him how to haunt and how to build shelter and fire. Everything they do: fish, build and haunt they do it together. He learn many things and he always look up to her. They have nothing left but each other. But along the story, the wild dogs took him away from her. The wild dogs left her nothing but herself and the island.
So hopeless and sad, many loves one and things has been taken away from her. As she grew alone on the island she learn how to help herself to survive. By building shelter, making weapons, find food and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. Many adventure she had experience and go through: pain , huger, sorrow, happiness, faith , and courage we would all share it with her and her new friends as she live her life alone on the big Island of the Blue Dolphins.
This bravery and amazing story will make you understand the suffering and surviving of a young girl Karana had experience in her life alone. For example on page#50, "To make weapons to protect myself from the dogs, which I felt would sometimes attack me." She learn how to make weapons by herself. The good thing is that she predict what was going to happen so she prepared for it. Although she is a girl she will do and try to make anything to protect herself and live her life as long as she can make it. Just like us teen today we got to be prepared to do things on our own. Learn and achieve by our self. Believe and go for it. Don't wait until things start to happen. Do it now so it won't be so hard on you as you get older. Another part that she did to survive was on page #56, "I carried dry seaweed up from the beach and made a bed for myself." She hunts and she build/make things for her self to use for protection and to hunt. She is a very strong and brave girl who can do many things although it take times and life risking. If we try hard and focus we will make it and succeed in life too. The life lesson in this book that the author is trying to tell us is that don't depend or look up to someone forever. Who may know what will happen. You got to learn and earn on your own because you are the only one that can help and save yourself. You can't always expect for someone to be there for you. I learn many things from this book, I learn that as I grow up I had to learn to do things for myself. This book encourage me to keep track with my education because it make me realize that education is very important and play a great part in my life. I learn that I need to do my work, all assignment and things I need to do to succeed because I know I will need these teaching to help build my knowledge and to help me succeed in life. Also to achieve great things in the coming up future. In our teen life today, education is known best important, we have a future and we got to work for it. Our loves ones wont be there always and forever. Depend on yourself,be there for yourself, don't put yourself down and love yourself. Depend and believe in yourself you will achieve.
Book Review By Mothy Xiong
The first time I saw this book was when I was in grade school. I purchased it from the Troll Book Club (long out of existance I'm sure). I had a family member help me read it.
Wonderful story of an indian girl who survives total solitude for many years on an island.
 I liked this book because it has adventure in it.
I liked the part when Karana was on the island alone and had to find food for herself and keep herself alive by her own risk.
I would recomend this book because it is a happy book but it also has parts where the book is very sad.
but to many questons were left un ansewed
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