Island Of The Blue Dolphins By Scott O Dell

My review is on Island of the Blue Dolphins, written by Scott O’ Dell. The genre of Island of the Blue Dolphins is fiction and historical fiction. As the story begins the Aleuts, now with a Russian captain, return to the island. Where they make a deal with Karana’s tribe. The deal was the Aleuts could kill as many otters as they wanted, but they had to give Karan’s tribe half of the otters that they killed. When the Aleuts began preparing to leave there was a disagreement and a fight, between Karana’s tribe and the Aleuts. Many of the men on the island were killed. Later, a ship comes to take the tribe to the mainland. At the last moment, as the ship is departing, Karana sees her brother, Ramo, is still on the shore, she jumps into the water,
When Ramo is killed and Karana is left alone on Ghalas-at, she has many enemies and no friends. She is harassed constantly by the wild dogs on her island, and lives with a vague, or undecided, fear in the back of her mind that one day the Aleuts that killed her people will return to the island. Eventually, Karana is forced into confrontation with the wild dogs and with the Aleuts. In each case she has the opportunity to take her revenge, but she doesn't. Tutok’s case is the most important of these because it shows the development of Karana's trust in more detail and to a deeper extent, and in Rontu’s case the only thing Karana and Rontu have to show trust was the refrain from killing each other. In Tutok’s case Karana is mistrustful because Tutok is an Aleut. She has seen first-hand what happens when one deals with these people, and has likely inherited some of the dislike and mistrust her father had for them. Even when Tutok makes friendly gestures, Karana is unfriendly, and assumes that Tutok will betray her to the Aleut hunters. It takes a long time for Karana to see that Tutok has no intention to, but it takes some time before Karana makes a gesture of trust on her own. When Karana reveals her secret name to Tutok, it is her ultimate sign of trust. She then remembered her father's death that it had been his decision to reveal his secret name to someone that was not worthy of trust. What Karana receives from her trust is a rewarding friendship that she will remember and think about for the rest of the novel. Something that really stood out to me in the book was how fast Karana was able to forgive Rontu after he and his pack had killed her brother. I can relate to Karana because she is determined, brave, and strong. Another thing we have in common is that we both have 2 siblings, an older sibling and younger sibling, and we both have a younger six-year-old brother. I would defiantly recommend this book to a friend,