Reading and Writing Assignment for 12/24/15 23rd class

Here is Mark's response to this week's assignment:

 

In the book Island of the Blue Dolphins, the girl Karana change a lot through the book. At first, she is just a dutiful girl. She won’t exceed any rules on the island. If she isn’t along, she’ll happily live with her family and never make a weapon until she died. But she is along on the island. Nobody will help her to protect herself; nobody will make any weapons for her. She must exceed the rules and become a warrior. The environment change her to become a girl who can make house with whale bone, a girl who can resist the while dogs by herself.

Great opening! I love that sentence that describes how she starts out ""She'll happily live with her family and never make a weapon until she died." Equally great is that sentence about about her "exceeding the rules" to "become a warrior." What a perfect word choice! She does become a warrior.  And that last sentence with its very specific details is terrific. Excellent work!! 

Hello,Laraine

     Karana is a dutiful girl at the opening of the book Island of the Blue Dolphins. She loves her families very much. She does her works perfectly to help her father ; she protects her brother Ramo all the time. But through the book goes on . After her families died or leave on by one she becomes a brave and self girl.  After her father died, she takes the works that en do. After she sees Ramo is still stay on the island but she is on the ship and going the leave him, she jumps into the sea with no hesitate. After her brother Ramo died of the wild dogs, she decides to give the dogs a revenge. And for living on the Island, she even exceed the rules in her tribe and makes weapons to protect herself and she holds a house up by herself too.

Nice details here to show why Karana is "dutiful." Good ones, too, to illustrate why she is brave and self reliant.  Perfect use of the semi colon, which is a quite advanced kind of punctuation.  Nice work.  

Here is Alice's response:

 

When I first open this book, I thought Karana was a dutiful and a little conservative to me. But then, when there’s only herself on the island, she began to change.

Because the needing of survival, she had to break the routine of the tribe, but that doesn’t matter to her. After that, she always makes people feel that she is decisive and tenacious which has changed a lot.

If Karana need to live on the island for the rest of her life, that won’t be difficult.

That's a very good insight (understanding) of the book: Karana is "conservative" (inclined to follow the rules and traditions) at the beginning.  But in her need to survive, she is forced to change and refuse to follow the rules of the tribe.   Very nice ending as well. Nicely done!