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sunbean 's review for:
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
I read this several times as a child, enchanted with Karana's survival skills (around the same time I was enjoying reading "Hatchet") AND that she tamed a wild dog.
Now, 2020, a time of quarantine and other forms of strict isolation, Karana's sad tale takes on new, terribly sad and tragic connotations, particularly in light of the race discussions mostly centered around Black Lives Matter but as part of a broader discussion. Her absolute isolation and will to survive, the destructive and ultimately genocidal interventions of the Russian fur traders then later the white missionaries that convince the entire tribe to board a ship bound for a better world only to have the entirety of the population perish (except Karana) in a ship wreck.
This story will always have a place in my heart as I think about the lone woman and the tragedies she endured that still somehow have an echo all this time later.
Now, 2020, a time of quarantine and other forms of strict isolation, Karana's sad tale takes on new, terribly sad and tragic connotations, particularly in light of the race discussions mostly centered around Black Lives Matter but as part of a broader discussion. Her absolute isolation and will to survive, the destructive and ultimately genocidal interventions of the Russian fur traders then later the white missionaries that convince the entire tribe to board a ship bound for a better world only to have the entirety of the population perish (except Karana) in a ship wreck.
This story will always have a place in my heart as I think about the lone woman and the tragedies she endured that still somehow have an echo all this time later.