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Summary: Craighead and Nature
Review: Unhappy with her arranged marriage, Julie runs away to go live with a friend in San Fransico. During her journey through the Alaskan wilderness, she realizes how important nature is and how civilization is destroying it. Jean Craighead George gives insight into the Inuit culture and the importance of nature to this culture. She writes in favor of reserving culture and nature as if everyone is out to destroy it. It is true that cultures are less important to some; however some spend all their time and energy to preserve their cultures just as Julie (Miyax) does in the novel. George expands on the theory of "survival of the fittest." The question is who will survive: nature or society? In the novel, civilization is destroying nature for human survival. The hunters must kill for food and money; this is their way of survivng. In the Inuit culture George writes about, Julie survives by hunting and killing her own food. Julie contradicts herself because in the novel that is exactly what the "civilized" are doing. The only difference is that the "civilized" people don't choose and pick which animals they will kill and which they will allow to live. In the article, "The Ignoble Savage: American Images in the Mainstream Mind" Moore and MacCain state that "the prtagonist is in search of a way to escape from an Inuit culture that she feels is palpably threating to her"(28). This could be similar to the arranged marriage Julie had to particpate in. This is part of the Inuit culture, and therefor George should consider preserving it as part of the culture in the novel. Julie of the Wolves is a well written novel. Even as a "grown up" I truly enjoyed reading it. It is a moving story that will touch the heart of anyone.George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. Illus.John Schoenherr. New York: Harper Trophy Publishers, 1972. Moore, Opal and Donnarae MacCain. "The Ignoble Savage: Amerind Images in the Mainstream Mind." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 13.1 (1988): 26-30.
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Summary: Jean Craighead George is as good as J. K. Rowling!
Review: I think that this book-and all of the books by Mrs. George-are fanstastic. There is good detail, a great story line, and wonderful characters. I have read all of the Julie books. I have read a lot of Jean George's books and I love them!
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Summary: Will the wolves help Miyax?
Review: Julie of the Wolves was a great book. I liked it alot. It is one of my favorite books. It was about a girl named Miyax who was lost in the Alaskan Tundra. She is depending on the wolves whether she survives or not. She only packed a weeks worth of food and was planning on going to Point Hope. Then she got lost in the Tundra. She watched the wolves for several days to find out how to ask for food. She made friends with a young wolf who she named Kapu. Kapu helped her get food. I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Julie of the Wolves
Review: A heart filled book that teaches you how important it is to belive in your self and to not give up.Jean George has made a masterpiece that shall not soon be forgoten by its readers.
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Summary: The Best Book Around
Review: Could you do it? Could you survive in the frozen waste of the Arctic tundra? That is exactly what Miyax must do after escaping a terrible marriage and running away into nowhere. To her Acrtic village she is Miyax, to her Californian friend, she is Julie. After building a hut on a frost heave, she has no food, only matches, her knife, and a pack of wolves to guide her. After awhile, the wolves lead her to a point near her old village. Now she must make a decision, she can rejoin her village OR stay with the wolves. What should she do, for she is Miyax of the eskimos, but Julie of the wolves.
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Summary: I love it!
Review: It is very discriptive and fun to read anytime. This book tells about a young girl befriending a pack of wolves. At first, Julie just names the wolves. first, she names the leader of the pack Amaroq, then the other wolf Nails, then the mother of the pups, Zit, Zat, Zing, and Kapu, Silver, and finally the "outcast",Jello. She later finds out that her father, Kapugan, is alive after not returning home after a hunt many years ago, and sets off to find him after Amaroq is killed by gussaks, or Americans to find out that he has married a gussak and started to live like a gussak.At first Julie leaves him, but after her faithful pet bird dies, she realizes that she is alone and the eskimo tradition is dead and returnes to Kapugan.
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Summary: Julie must choose between the old world and the new.
Review: What would you do if you were lost on the tundra with a wolf pack as your only hope to survive? Would you go mad? Give up and die? Miyax Kapugen, an eskimo girl who has escaped from a disasterous marriage, has to find a way to stay alive until she can find a landmark. She has no food, only her knives, sleeping skin, pot, matches, and clothes. After building a hut on one of the many frost heaves of the monotonous tundra she turns to the wolf pack that is "many harpoon-shots away" for help. Miyax names the wolves. The leader (alpha wolf) is Amaroq, the beta wolf is Nails, the mother of the pups is Silver. "The low man on the totem pole", Jello, is the hated wolf of the pack. He has to baby-sit the wolf pups, a job that Miyax soon takes over. The pups themselves are Kapu, Sister, Zit, Zat, and Zing. Miyax learns to speak the language of the wolves. She taps the adult wolves on the corner of their mouths when thay come home from the hunt,and on instinct, they regurgitate the food in their "belly-baskets." She is accepted by the wolves when she taps Amaroq under the chin as a "Hail to the chief." Jean Craighead George crafts a surviva story that is so realistic that readers can feel Miyax's hunger and see the colors of her arctic world. Jean Craighead George wrote, in her very first paragraph, when describing the sun "It was a yellow disk in a lime-green sky." Later on on in the book she described Miyax's hunger "A dull pain seized her stomach." Miyax uses her eskimo knowledge to determine what day it is. She follows the flight of different birds to discern where Fairbanks lies. She lives in harmony with the wolves, but when they leave for their winter den she is left behind on the tundra. When she begins a journey toward the coast and her people, a man in an airplane shoots the wolf leader of her pack, Amaroq, and Miyax is distraught. After grieving, Miyax continues her journey and meets two people who talk of the great leader Kapugen, who is Miyax's father! She rushes to rejoin him, only to find that he has forsaken or forgoten all of the old eskimo ways that he taught her. She is devastated when she finds out that it was he who murdered the magnificient Amaroq, all for his musk oxen industry. Miyax, christened "Julie" by the people of her father's village, realizes that "the hour of the wolf" is over. She sings her sad farewell to Amaroq: The seals are scarce and the whales are almost gone. The spirits of the animals are passing away. Amaroq, Amaroq, you are my adopted father. My feet dance because of you. My eyes see beaus of you. My mind thinks because of you. And it thinks, on this thundering night, that the hour of the wolf and the eskimo is over. If Julie of the Wolves has a fault, my opinion is that Miyax is married at thirteen. This is a sadly realistic situation, nonetheless. I did not enjoy reading about it. Once, Miyax's husband tried to "mate her". It was horrible! That was why Miyax/Julie ran away. She repeated her father's advice to herself: "When fear seizes, change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong." Jean Craighead George has written many other books besides Julie of the Wolves, titles including My Side of the Mountain and The Thirteen Moons. She has also written two sequels to Julie of the Wolves (Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack) and they are, if possible, more wonderful than the first. Jean Craighead George was born in Washington, D.C. She was inspired to write Julie of the Wolves by a summer spent studying wolves at the Arctic Research Laboratory in Barrow. I think that this was what enabled her to describe wolves so well. My favorite descriptions of this kind are "brittle yellow jewels", (describing a wolves' eyes) and "Silver moved in a halo of light, for the sun sparkled n the guard hairs that grew over the dense underfur and she seemed to glow." (This was describing th gloriosly beautiful motherof the wolf pups. Jean Craighead George was rearedby naturalist parents who passed on their love of animals to her, and she in turn passed that love on to her children. She currently lives in Chappaqua, New York. Julie of the Wolves is a book of choices. It is a very saddening read when Miyax/Julie must choose between the world of the old eskimos and te world of the new. Yet, there are small chunks of humor that provide happiness. The wolf pups in Miyax's care are always funny to read about. Kapu delights in her mitten, and all the wolves love to wrestle. Miyax herself makes up songs about almost everything, like about her peas that she picked : "Peas that go tink peas that go tot peas that will never grow outside my pot." Julie of the Wolves is a powerful survival story. It would satisfy those who hunger for books about wolves, people, the arctic, eskimos, tundra... So, I would suggest READING IT!
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Summary: You've got to read this book.................
Review: This book is the best book I have ever read it is sad at some parts but I think that everyone that reads it is going to love this book..
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Summary: The best book in the whole Universe!!!
Review: Julie of the wolves is so awesome, that if it hadn't been a library book, I would have read it ten thousand times! It had a lot of details in it so much it sounded like It was really happening! It showed the loyalty of wolves and an admiring story, this is a book children from all around the planet will enjoy.
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Summary: It is a great story of survival that everyone should read!
Review: My opinion of this book is that is an excellent must-read for younger kids. It has good detailing, good plot, a good topic, and wasn't boring at all. There were a few parts/characters that I didn't like, though. A few parts weren't explained well. I didn't like Jello, the wolf, Miyax's (Julie) mother-in-law, Miyax's husband, and the fact that the bird Miyax found died in the end. That was sad. The people who would probably enjoy this book the most would probably be in the grades 4th-8th.
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