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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: Julie, an Inuit Eskimo from Alaska, is born with the name Miyax. Because her mother dies when Miyax is barely four years old, Miyax's father, Kapugen, brings her up in the traditional Eskimo ways and teaches her a life of co-existence with the natural world. When Miyax is nine years old, her Aunt takes her away from her father because Julie is suppose to go to school. There she is around Americanized Eskimos, who call her Julie, and she starts to believe that she has lived a strange life with her father in the Alaskan wilderness. At thirteen, Julie finds herself in a bad situation and attempts to run away to San Francisco where her pen pal lives. Even though Julie is running away from her Eskimo upbringing, she winds up depending on the ways of her people. Out in the wilderness, she learns a lot about who she is. This book is about discovery and acceptance as Julie defines herself through her own culture and becomes Miyax again. Jean Craighead George interprets a particular culture, Inuit Eskimo, and defines it throughout the story. Julie, as a young girl, learns the importance of her culture and the process of identifying herself within it. However, Julie, as an adolescent, rebels against her culture because it has become out-of-date and is considered old fashion to live as the traditional Eskimo's once did. Julie learns from the American Eskimo kids about the modern world and about a life that is much different than what she is used to. Julie also has a pen pal who lives in San Francisco who has been sending Julie pictures of her home and telling her about strange and beautiful things that Julie wants to see. She begins to believe that the way she was brought up was, indeed, very strange and therefore not the way that she wants to live anymore. However, on her quest to live in San Francisco, Julie finds herself lost and she has nothing but herself and the wilderness to keep her alive. Drawing on her Inupiat Eskimo upbringing and believing in the Eskimo ways of intelligence, fearlessness, and love, Julie learns to see her people's ways as the way she wants to live. Julie becomes Miyax again, and talks to the wolves, as her father taught her, and gains their trust so that they help her to survive. Julie realizes that she doesn't want to live in San Francisco with all their modern ways and searches to find a traditional Eskimo settlement. Miyax discovers that her father is alive and that he was the man in the helicopter who killed Amaroq, the dominant wolf, for sport. At first when Miyax came across the Eskimo settlement, that her father is living at, she is excited to go back to her heritage. However, she discovers that he is living with a Gussak, an American Eskimo, and that he is no longer living the life of a traditional Eskimo but has become Americanized, and she learns the truth about the man who killed Amaroq. Miyax feels betrayed and leaves her father's home, only to realize that she has no other choice but to live as the people of the Eskimo Settlement do. I believe that Jean Craighead George does a fantastic job of portraying a young girl who is trying to find herself and in doing so, Julie explores her culture and is able to define herself within it. Julie figures out what she really wants and why because of this. In the beginning of the book, Julie is running away from her upbringing and running toward a modern new world. Julie chooses, in the end, to embrace her traditional upbringing and finds peace within herself and an acceptance of herself that she so needs. An acceptance that is so strong that even the thought of living in a village that desecrates many of the thinks Inuit Eskimos believe in, she is still strong enough to know who she is inside and decides to live with her father. Living as an Americanized Eskimo cannot brake down her beliefs or take away her true heritage, which she has gained strength from and a sense of herself.
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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: Julie of the Wolves is about a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl named Miyax who gets lost on the Alaskan Tundra. She was running away from her dire husband, Daniel, and trying to get to Point Hope. The book is divided into three sections: Amaroq, the wolf, Miyax, the girl, and Kapugen, the hunter.
In the first section, instead of a human taking care of animals, the wolves are taking care of Miyax. When she is starving on the Tundra, the leader of the pack, Amaroq, slowly accepts her as one of the wolves and treats her as such by feeding her, and by keeping her company.
The second section talks about Miyax's father, Kapugen, presumed dead in the beginning. He raised her to be an old-fashioned Eskimo instead of a contemporary one.
Finally in the third section, hunters in an airplane shoot down the wolf Amaroq for no reason. Hunters usually kill wolves for their ears but the hunters in this case killed him for fun. After she saves Kapu, another wolf, she travels to Point Hope, only to find her father alive. He is no longer an old fashioned Eskimo, but has married a white woman, owns an airplane, and flies hunters. Miyax almost runs away again, but then realizes that the day of the Eskimo is gone and "...points her toes toward Kapugen."
I think that everybody changes over time, and the old ways can't always be kept. Miyax successfully became an old fashioned Eskimo, but at the end of her journey she had to become Julie of the town.
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Summary: Lost in the Tundra
Review: The reason I wanted to read this book because it sounded intersting. I also wanted to know how it would feel to live in Alaska. I gave it a four because I didn`t like it when they killed the wolves. But over all I liked the book. I think that Jean Craighead Geoge is a very good author. I would like to read more of her books. This book was so good I couldn`t keep it down. The best part of the book was when Julie saw Amy, the wolf pup. I pictured Amy so cute,furry,and fuzzy. This book is good for anyone who likes animals,action,and excitment.
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Summary: A good survival story
Review: When asked to review Julie of the Wolves, my son wrote:When I first started Julie of the Wolves, I had no idea what to expect. I was in for a big surprise. I've read two other books by Jean Craighead George, both quite different than this book in two ways: First, Sam (of My Side of the Mountain and its sequel, The Far Side of the Mountain) chooses to leave the modern world and live in the wilderness, whereas Julie is running away from a marriage when she gets lost in the wilderness on the way to Point Hope, where her pen-pal lives. (It was news to me that Eskimos married at thirteen. I doubt anyone would even think of marrying that early these days.) Second, the protagonist of Julie of the Wolves is a girl. (Sam, of course, is a boy, although both characters are roughly the same age.) This book is realistic. Everything Miyax/Julie does to survive seems sensible and what I would do if I got lost in the wilderness. At the bookstore, don't pass by this book. Pick it up and read the back. It should spark your interest. (For more cool reads, check out the other books I've reviewed.)
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Summary: Great book for naturalists!
Review: Julie of the Wolves is a wonderful story full of nature and excitement. It tells the story of a young Eskimo girl who runs away from an unhappy marriage. She takes off for San Francisco to stay with her pen pal. Alaska is a tough scary place, especially if you're lost! Miyax got lost, and was running out of food. She remembered the stories her father used to tell her before he got lost. Stories of how he got the wolves to help him get food. She could do that no problem, right? Wrong! He never told her how he talked to them and told them he needed help. Can Miyax learn the language of the wolves, or will she die in the wild? Read this adventure and find out for yourself.
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Summary: Why?
Review: Back in 6th Grade I was forced to read this book for a school project. I was never the same. This book showed me that not all literature is good, and that some works are truly horrible. This is truly horrible. I can't understand how it could win any type of award, especially a Newberry. I am still confused as to the point of this book. Most of the time, it read like a boring textbook and what story there was was pitiful and weak. I could not feel any sympathy for the characters at all. I wish there was a rating lower than 1 star, because that's what this book deserves. I saw someone on Amazon selling it for a penny. It isn't even worth that.
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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: Julie of the Wolves is a novel about a girl and a wolf pack, fighting against nature to survive. It is an inspiering book of how Julie fights for her life, and learns to live with a pack of wolves. It is a good book to read if you love adventures and the outdoors. It explains how well people can connect with nature.
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Summary: Journey Though Alaska
Review: This book was great. It's about a young 13-year-old Eskimo girl, called Miyax, who is married to a boy called Daniel and lives with his parents. Miyax then runs away from Daniel and his family, because of the way she was treated. She plans to work her way to San Francisco, where she would live with her pen pal, but she then finds herself lost in a large tundra and depends on wolves to live. By observing a pack she found how to communicate with the wolves and...
One of my reasons why I liked this book is, it's so descriptive. You can easily picture the characters and their surroundings just by reading a few sentences. Such as this quote, "Her face was pearl-round and her nose was flat. Her black eyes, which slanted gracefully, were moist and sparkling."
Another reason why I like this book is, it gives me an idea of how the environment of Alaska is, and how the old, traditional culture of the Eskimos was like. I also like how the book described the relationship between people, and the nature around them, and how they learned how to survive in the wilderness just by observing animals- how to hunt, where to find food, and how to defend yourself against another predator. This quote describes what I mean, "Next she noted that the grasses grew in different spota than the mosses, and the more she studied, the more the face of the tundra emerged; a face that could tell her which way was north, if she had listened more carefully to Kapugen."
My most favorite part of this book was when Miyax begins playing with the puppies of the pack, Zing, Zit, Sister, and Kapu. This reminds me of how enjoyable life can be with friends and family.
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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: Imagine a situation where wolves were your friends and family instead of people. And you learn to love your wolf pack. This is the situation in the adventurous book Julie of the Wolves, written by jean Craighead George. But one day changes everyones perspective. It began when Julie's Aunt took her away from Kapugen, her father, to attend school and went to Barrow. Julie was thirteen and old enough to marry. Kapugen happened to meet Nusan, her mother-in-law, in that town. She had said that Julie had ran off and died. But Nusan didn't really know what had happened to Julie. Julie was gone for a very long time after all and most people thought that she died. But Julie was on the tundra with the gentle wolf pack and its kind leader, Amaroq, but Kapugen had killed him and Julie still had the painful memories of that day. But Kapugen always called her Miyax. He was the only person allowed to call her Miyax. Like most Eskimo-Julie has two names, English and Eskimo-Julie Edwards and Miyax Kapugen. But she wondered what would happen to her wolves. After spending a long time with her pack, Julie picks up the wolf language. She howls and whimpers. And the wolves speak back. She knows what they're feeling by her own natural instinct. But not exactly what they're thinking. After a while, Julie decides to leave Kapu, her wolf and his pack, to go home and live with Kapugen. She is worried that her wolves will follow her and Kapugen finds then because he will shoot her wolves. "Kapugen is like all Eskimo hunters. He will say, 'The wolf gave himself to me'."-Julie of the Wolves. Julie goes on an adventure to go and find her wolves. To try and make them understand to stay away from Kapugen or he will shoot them. She is very protective of her wolves because they saved her life. She wants them so badly to understand by her howls but they keep heading in her direction. Is Julie going to save her wolves before Kapugen finds them first? I would recommend this book for anyone who likes adventure and cliffhangers. It's a wonderful book to read if your mind likes to question and leaves you stranded.
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Summary: Julie's Wolves
Review: Julie of the Wolves is the fascinating story of 13-year-old Miyax (Julie) who escapes an abusive marriage after her father dies in a boating accident and leaves her with an adoptive family. She travels across Alaska in an attempt to reach San Francisco, where she can stay with her pen pal, Amy, for a while. But in the dangerous conditions of the Alaskan tundra, she is forced to depend on a pack of wolves for shelter, food, and any chance of survival. To do this, she must learn to speak their language and get them to trust her. After studying their movements and ways of communicating, she is accepted by the wolves and the leader of the pack seems to be taking care of her. Through this experience, she learns much about herself and who she wants to be. But as she nears the end of her journey, she is forced to choose between the old Eskimo ways or the new ways. Any animal lover will love this book!
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