Homework for 24th class

The passage of time was described as number of suns and moons and springs. Karana's environment was first good, she was in a village with many people. and she only did what she is good at and the leader told her to do. Then the others left her alone in the island, she started to build a shelter and collect food, defeat wild animals... the environment affect her to be more mature. Karana's environment changed worse, because all the other people left Karana. Karana had changed too. she became more mature because she did all the work she did and the works belongs to the men in there village. 

The passage used the monologue of Karana that what she was doing to live better in different climate to show the differences between four seasons, daytimes and nights. For example, Karana gathered abalones for winter at the beginning of Chapter19, and she gathered roots and seeds to store at the end of summer in Chapter 20.

Karana’s environment did change. I comprehend the “environment” here as a kind of atmosphere around Karana because without the normal seasons’ changes, a group of Aleuts arrived. Karana met a girl came from the Aleuts and they became friends later. Her actions toward that girl were similar to her actions toward Rontu. She didn’t trust that girl at the beginning and, because of several reasons, she didn’t attack that girl. They tried to communicate with each other and gave each other the gifts. The girl came from the Aleuts made Karana feel not so lonely and what can prove that Karana trusted the girl and became friendly to her, was that Karana told the girl her secret name.

The passage of time described by some sentence like "another summer had come"“for many days""two summers  had come and gone" to show time past.

I think Karana had changed. When she was left on the island, she became more brave, cautious and self-supporting. Because there is no other people on this island, so it is very dangerous. She also had to be careful of the Aleut. She felt lonely but she gradually used to it. She had to survive by herself, so she became self-supporting. Then her environment changed when the girl came to where Karana lived. Over a long time, this is the first person she met. Because of the environment before, she became very cautious and she hate Aleuts. She is not very friendly and she didn't trust her at first. But at last she forget the enmity and they became friends. 

The ways to express time in this book are various. Sometimes, it just says spring, summer, winter. And sometimes it uses natural facts to express time like the change of the astronomy, creature's living, food supply and so on.

The environment changed, maybe you think that of course Karana changes. But I think Karana stay almost the same. She didn't kill herself because the desperation which all the people left, her father and brother died. She just stays the same, she is undestructable and mature. Her environment changes a lot. For instance, she got nothing at first, then she had a dog, then she had her enemies back to the island, then she made friends with a girl of the enemies. She didn't want to revenge or escape, I mean she thought about it, but then soon she gave up. For example, she wanted to kill the sea elephant, dog and the girl, but finally she gave up,she let it happen, she just stay still. So I think the environment do little work to her.