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Friendship, Survival, And Courage In Island Of The Blue Dolphins

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Island Of The Blue Dolphins is a novel about friendship, survival, and courage. This story is based on a true story about an indian girl living on San Nicolas Island alone for eighteen years. Karana, the girl with black hair, is the main character of the story. She is a very dynamic character who faces external and internal conflicts because she makes choices and survives in the story. One of the choices that she is faced with is if she should kill the leader of the wild dogs because the wild dogs killed Karana’s brother or not. The choice she made was not to kill him because she felt sorry for him and made him her companion since she was alone on the island. She asked herself if she would stay on the island or leave,she had to stay

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