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Summary: Island of theblue dolphins review
Review: i liked this book it taught me about indian life, about if there was an emergency and i was alone on an island how to survive. After each chapter i wanted to read more. I discovered how to say boy,girl,and good bye. This is my favorite non sport book
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Summary: My Kind of Book
Review: Do you like action,fear,drama?? If so then Island of the Blue dolphins is the book for you. This book taught me alot about life.As an Eighth Grader at St. Bede school I know how Karana felt when she was stranded with her brother on an Island. I have also lost a loved one so I know how she felt when she lost her brother. Lonley. She had no one to talk to and it has been proven that being alone too long can lead you to insanity. But because Karana was smart she mad friends with animals on the island and she did not go insane.
Above all this book taught me about courage. When Karana was alone she could not just sit there and wait for the day her ship returned. She got up and created a life on the island she even disobeyed the laws of her tribe that stated no women shall do a mans job. She was brave to do that because the gods were watching her and to break her tribes rules was to break the god rules.
This book was an amazing book with many rules so I advise any pre teen/ teen to read it maybe you'll learn something.
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Summary: Wonderful Adventure for Girls 12 to 14 !!!
Review: I first read this book when I was 12 years old and absolutely loved it! The memories from the story stayed with me all these years, and helped shape me into who I am. When I recently found it hidden in a box in my parent's basement I was overjoyed and pounced upon it again. Re-reading it as an adult, the story went much faster (I was able to re-read the entire thing in one day), but even as an adult it still had poignant imagery and was written well enough to keep me heavily engaged. I even cried at one point when re-reading it.The author did a wonderful job elaborating on a true story and bringing it to life. It's a story of survival and finding strength within yourself. It's an adventure story for young ladies, based on reality, with a similar premise as the adult movie "Cast Away" (just replace westernized Tom Hanks with an indiginous young girl and it's the same basic idea). As a 12 year old, I found parts of the book very scary and parts of it very sad, but mostly I found it extremely inspirational. The idea that even as a young lady, you have the strength inside you to survive no matter what. It's too bad that the reprint doesn't have the same cover as the original softcover I have. The original cover art captured the tone of the story better. A picture of a young girl and her dog on the top of a windswept hill, completely and utterly alone. It evoked a much more wistful feeling than the current cover art does.
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Summary: AUUUGH!
Review: Okay I seriously can NOT beleive how AWFUL this movie was. Compared to the book,this movie is worth dirt. The actor who played Karana was awful! And it was just boring! We watched this in class after reading the book and it was SO not worth the time. I practily snoozed through the whole thing! The only reason I gave it two stars is because the dogs where really cute.I can NOT beLEIVE everyone in my class liked this,if you want a good story,go read the book.
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Summary: SURVIVAL
Review: I my opinion.I thought the book was just ok.It was not all that great,but not all that terrible.The book is about a girl who lived for years on a island alone.And she kepts herself alive, by building shelter,making weapons,finding food,and fighting her enemies,the wild dogs.
The setting of the story is about about 30 year ago.On a island called San Nicolas Island.My favorite character is Ramo,because he was the brother of the girl.And he cared for her.And he tried to help her out all he could.
I would recommend this book to people who like to read stories about survival and about dolphins because this book is just about a girl who survived alone for years on a island.
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Summary: Truly Captivating, Endearing, and Emotional
Review: Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell is definitely a book that won't lose your attention and will be a challenge to put down. It is a partially fictionalized, partially non-fictionalized book about a young, twelve-year-old girl who, through a domino effect of life-changing events, is left stranded on an island, separated from her family and loved ones. This Native American girl, Karana, is so strongly determined to live that she spends the next eighteen years of her life on that very island, everyday hoping a ship will come to her rescue and reunite her with her family. The island Karana and her family all once lived on together, resembled a dolphin, only known to the few people and numerous animals that inhabited it. The people on this island called it "Island of the Blue Dolphins" because of the beautiful and stunning Blue Dolphins that were just as plentiful as the waters surrounding the island. And just as the dolphins were at peace and harmony with each other and the water, so were the Native Americans inhabiting the island at peace and harmony with each other and the land they lived on. But as time inevitably passes and changes, it too changed the "dream-like life" these Native Americans were living. The peacefulness these people experienced was taken from them the moment a red-flagged ship, belonging to the Aleuts, was spotted off shore, heading towards the Island of the Blue Dolphins. That moment, an irreversible and unavoidable fate, unbeknownst to the tribe, was bestowed upon them. Unfortunately, the only means of escaping this fate was to flee either by boat or by death. The day the Aleuts - the white men - arrived, they only came to hunt otters, but something went terribly wrong. A small battle broke out between the Aleuts and the natives, leaving more than 75% of the Indian men were left dead, the chief being one of them, as the Aleuts sailed away with the otter skins. There was not one person of the tribe who did not lose a husband, brother, father, or son. Sometime later, a ship returns with white men on it, and bring these natives to another land. However, through a turn of events, Karana and Ramo are the only ones left on the island - l their family and relatives gone. Their first instinct was to collect food and build a shelter from the wild dogs that inhabit the island. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes after only three days on the island - Karana awoke that morning to find Ramo gone. Throughout the eighteen years Karana spends on the island, she learns how to build her own "house" and becomes friends with and observes many of the animals on the island. I really enjoyed O'Dell's writing because this book is based on a true story, and O'Dell had to fictionalize most parts and make it sound believable, which he carried out remarkably. The true parts of this story are that there really was a girl stranded on an island, left behind to voluntarily stay with her brother who did not make it to the ship on time. He did die at the teeth of the wild dogs and she was left to forage for herself for eighteen years. She was "rescued," you could say, by two white men who came upon the island by ship. She willingly returned with the white men back to the white men's land, but when she tried to explain her story, no one could understand her language. Not even any of the natives around could understand her dialect, leaving her story to be much of a blank. She was never reunited with her family because she did not know what island the ship traveled to.
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Summary: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Review: Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'dell is a pretty good book. The is about a 13 year old girl named Karana whose Island had been attacked by the Aleuts(the white men from Europe.) The Aleuts had killed many of their people. After the attack, the chief went to find a new place for the people on the island to live in case the Aleuts came again. After a couple of months kind white men finally came to the people of the island but Karana's brother Ramo was left behind. Karana jumped off the boat and swam back to the island so that her brother wouldn't stay on the island alone. The rest of the story continues by telling how Karana and Ramo stay alone on the island.
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Summary: Awful
Review: Dull, uninteresting, anticlimactic. Of course, I've never been much for romance books but I completely fail to see why this book is enjoyable.
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Summary: Great for Education!
Review: This is a wonderful story about survival. This book would be interesting to students in the 5th grade and above. Teachers could use this book to study animals, courage, survival, and world culture.
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Summary: Ordeal by Loneliness
Review: After a series of violent and bizarre events, a 12-year-old native girl suddenly finds herself alone on an islet off the California coast at the dawn of the 19th century. Her people have been masacred by hostile Aleuts who arrive annually to hunt the sea otter. Their new chief manages to convince white men to return for the survivors, but she sacrifices her rescue in order to be with her little brother. When he is killed by wild dogs, Karana must face overwhleming odds of loneliness, gender ignorance and tribal tabus, in order to survive without human companionship for 18 years. O'Dell has depicted a realistic and interesting story--one with little dialogue but which holds the reader's attention. Based on acutal fact about the Lone Woman of San Nicholas Island, this tale reveals how Karana came of age without any witnesses; she learned to rely on herself and her pet dog to keep busy, healthy, and safe from human predators. For almost two decades she carved out a life for herself on this islet, until she was ultimately rescued by Spanish missionaries. With her departure a Native American
lifestyle vanished into the mists of time, for her entire village had blended in or died out in the intervening years.
Karana battles against hunger, the ocean, wild dogs, and treacherous Aleuts, plus hostile natural phenomena. Yet she also discovers the value of friendship and man's responsibility to protect wild creatures. This is a good survival tale for boys as well as girls to read, as all humans can relate to the innate
need for socialization. It makes an excellent springboard for discussion of Native Americans, the Spanish Mission system and the fragile balance of cross-cultural shock. Karan kept faith with the Rock.
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