The Blue Dolphins

“Island Of The Blue Dolphins”, is a book written by Scott O’Dell. The book was published in 1960 in California. It has 174 pages and 29 chapters. “Island of the Blue Dolphins” is a fictional book full of conflict, friendship, and forgiveness. The symbol of this book is a dolphin. Dolphin’s are the symbol because the island is shaped as one and the tribe believed that dolphins were a sign of luck and a sign for something good is about to happen in the near future. Island of “The Blue Dolphins” is San Nicolas. The examples to back up this conclusion is when Karana tells us about the island and it’s many hidden caves. Also what animals live on the island. The setting is the late 1800’s. The clothing and the details of the ship's give that away.

The deal was to be able to hunt seals on the island and in exchange the tribe gets beads. Later on in the chapters the “Aleuts” betray the tribe and killed the chief and most of the men in the tribe. The “Aleuts” escape the island very quickly afterwards. This affected the tribe drastically because the men had most of the hard working jobs, such as; hunting, skinning, building, etc. While the women only had cleaning, collecting crops, and making the clothes. Plus the tribe had no chief. Because of this most of the people died. One of the people in the the tribe decided that everyone should go with the Kimiko’s men. When they all agreed to go, they all packed up there important things and left. When everyone was on board and when the ship was starting to sail away the chief's daughter, Karana notices her brother isn’t on board and see him waving his hands and calling for her on the island. Karana tried telling people on the ship about her brother but no one understood what she was saying, so she dived into the ocean and swam back to the island to get her brother and save him from the wolves. When she finally reached her brother, it was too late. The ship was already gone. Later on in the chapter her brother dies from getting attacked by wolves and she is left all alone. Karana spends 18 years on that island alone. She took in a wolf and named it Rontu and when Rontu

The book is really well written and the way the author displayed the emotions and conflicts the characters were going through was very good. I personally admired how strong Karana was and how she kept going when things got tough and how she is smart and brave enough to stay alive. The lessons the book is trying to teach is to never trust strangers, always keep going and never to give up. What kept me reading this book was to see how Karana could get through all this conflicts and somehow make it alright. I would recommend this book to other people because it has all the the key things books need and it sends a good message to everyone that is going through a difficult time in their