How did Karana tame Mon a nee?

Karana saves an otter from the kelp bed in Chapter 23 after the Aleutian hunters leave. Instead of killing the otter as the Aleuts would have done, she heals him and names him Mon-a-nee.
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What happens in Chapter 23 in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Chapter 23: After the Aleuts

After the Aleuts leave in their ship, taking Tutok with them, Karana finds many wounded otter. This makes her sad, and she spends a few days putting the ones that are too badly wounded to live out of their misery. But then she finds a young otter that has a long gash on its back.
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How did Karana get a new dog after Rontu's death?

How did Karana get a new dog after Rontu's death? She put a mixture into the spring water to make the dogs go to sleep. Their ship had sunk in the storm, then their was no other ship.
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What happened in chapter 26 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

In Chapter 26 of ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'', Karana mourns the loss of her beloved Rontu. To ease her loss, she attempts different ways of capturing a new companion.
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What happened in chapter 14 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Chapter 14: Injured and Alone

For five days, Karana cannot leave her house because her leg is so swollen. She has plenty of food, but her water starts to run low on the third day, and by the fifth it is completely gone. She must get to the spring or die of thirst.
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What is Chapter 13 about in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

In chapter 13, Karana has gone to the cliffs to kill a bull sea elephant to make arrows from their teeth. According to Karana, a sea elephant is a type of seal that weighs as much as thirty men. Usually, it takes several men to net a sea elephant.
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What happens in chapter 18 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

In Chapter 18, Karana is enjoying spring on the island. The flowers are blooming and birds are singing in a way that she can't help but appreciate the beauty around her. After two birds with red heads and yellow bodies build a nest nearby, Karana watches the pair take turns sitting on their eggs.
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What happens in chapter 27 of island of the Blue Dolphins?

Karana soon sees a huge wave (tsunami) coming towards the island, and she runs to escape by climbing a cliff. She climbs as high as she can but is soaked by a second, larger ocean wave. Once the water retreats, Karana leaves the cliff for the safety of her shelter.
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How old is Ramo in island of the Blue Dolphins?

Ramo is a curious and mischievous six-year-old boy who is the proud informant of everything that happens on the island.
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What happens in chapter 29 of island of the Blue Dolphins?

Karana sees three men set up camp on the shore. Karana decides to meet them and she prepares to leave the island. She puts on her otter cape, cormorant skin dress, and black stone necklace. The men spot the smoke from her fire and visit Karana at her home.
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What caused Rontu's death?

Rontu gets attacked by the devilfish. Rontu walks the cliffs with Karana. When the Aleuts return to town, Rontu meets up with his former owner, Tutok. Rontu dies.
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What killed Rontu?

Rontu and Forgiveness

At the end of Chapter 8, Karana vows revenge against the dog pack for killing her brother (8.50). We see that she manages to shoot Rontu in the chest in Chapter 15.
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Why did Karana jump off the ship?

Why did Karana jump from the ship that carried her tribe? As Karana considered making weapons, what did she recall her father saying? They would break in her hands at the moment when her life was in danger.
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What does Mon-A-Nee mean?

Karana names the otter Mon-a-nee, which means "Little Boy with Large Eyes." Mon-a-nee is difficult to keep fed, however, and after three days that Karana cannot feed him because the sea is too rough to fish, she returns to the tide pool to find that he has gone back to the ocean.
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What happens in chapter 24 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Chapter 24 of Island of the Blue Dolphins is a turning point for Karana. She rescues a couple more animals and eventually reunites with her otter friend, Mon-a-nee. After she realizes that Mon-a-nee is acting as the mother to two babies, Karana decides that she's done killing animals for good.
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What happens in chapter 22 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

In chapter 22 of ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' by Scott O'Dell, the Aleuts have returned to the island and Karana has been discovered by the Aleut girl. In this lesson, we will find out the consequences for Karana's friendship with Tutok.
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What is karanas real name?

In the book she's named Karana. Her birth name is lost to history, but she's often referred to as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island or as Juana María, the name under which she was baptized before burial at Mission Santa Barbara.
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What does Rontu mean in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

After the fourth night, Karana names him Rontu, which means 'Fox Eyes. ' Rontu becomes Karana's constant companion as she moves about the island each day.
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What does Rontu look like?

Unlike the other dogs, which have brown fur and brown eyes, Rontu has yellow eyes and gray fur (he is also much larger than the average dog of the island). Though Rontu and Karana are enemies at the beginning of the novel, they become friends after Karana injures Rontu and then nurses him back to health.
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What happens in chapter 25 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

By Scott O'Dell

The Aleuts never return to the island and the otters start to migrate to Tall Rock during the summer. Eventually, even the otters stop their migration, which is when Karana knows that there are no otters left that remember the Aleuts.
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What happens to Karana at the end of the novel?

Two more years pass and Karana finally gets her happy ending. A ship full of white men arrive on the island. Though Karana doesn't speak their language, she understands that they will take her to safety. She packs up her pet birds and Rontu-Aru, and she leaves for the mainland.
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What happened in chapter 28 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

The huge waves destroy Karana's canoe and those she had stored under the cliffs. Karana looks among the wreckage left by the waves to find wood to build a new canoe. She retrieves parts of canoes washed ashore and collects enough wood to make a new vessel.
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What happened in Chapter 19 Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Chapter 19 takes place over one day. It covers the day she starts collecting red abalone, a kind of shellfish that are pretty tasty. The problem is in most abalone hunting spots there is also an abundance of starfish. Starfish also love to eat abalone.
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What happened in chapter 20 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Chapter 20 of Island of the Blue Dolphins shows how Karana learns to survive alone in the natural world. She works tirelessly to make her clothes and to obtain food from the fish and plants in her environment. She has now tamed Rontu, the wild dog that follows her and depends on her to survive.
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What happened in chapter 17 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

After a fierce battle, Rontu leaves one of the dogs with a broken leg and the other fatally wounded. Rontu howls victoriously at the top of the mound and returns to Karana's home. After that, the pack splits into two, but never returns to Karana's home.
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