What does Karana do when she sees Ramo onshore?

When Karana reaches the spot the noise is coming from, she finds Ramo dead, surrounded by the pack of dogs. She carries Ramo back to the village, and the dogs follow her all the way. She chases them away with a club, and follows them back to their lair, three hills distant.

What happened to Ramo in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

By the time she finds him, Ramo has been killed by a pack of wild dogs. In his struggle, he killed two of them, but there were too many for him to handle. Karana vows to kill the dogs in Ramo's honor.

Where does Karana bury Ramo?

Karana collects mussels at the cove, but there's still no sign of Ramo. Back at the village, the hut is empty too. Karana buries her shellfish to protect them from the dogs and takes the trail to the south end of the island. Karana finds Ramo on the ground with a circle of dogs around him.

What are Karana and Ramo gathering when they spot the Aleut ship?

Karana, who is also known as Won-a-pa-lie , or 'The Girl with the Long Black Hair,' and her brother, Ramo, have gone to the head of the canyon, within sight of Coral Cove, to gather roots for their people. Karana and Ramo spot an Aleut ship coming.

What happens in chapter 9 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

In chapter nine of ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' by Scott O'Dell, Karana has to learn to live alone on the island after her brother is killed by a pack of wild dogs.

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What happens in chapter 10 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

By Scott O'Dell

Karana spends the summer watching for the ship to come back. But when winter arrives, she gives up hope. Karana becomes more and more lonely. After a storm hits the island, she decides to take one of the smaller canoes and go east across the ocean, to where her people have gone.

What did Karana make in Chapter 12?

Karana kills two of the dogs, but not the leader. Once the house is built, Karana starts to make other things she'll need to survive. She weaves a basket for water and makes some utensils. She also digs a fire pit in the house and carves out shelves in the rock.

What does Karana do when she realizes her brother Ramo is not on the ship?

Karana's little brother, Ramo, slips away to their house to retrieve a spear. When Karana realizes he is not on the ship, she jumps overboard and swims ashore as the ship is sailing away.

What happens in chapter 3 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Aleuts hunt sea otters in the kelp beds around the island by paddling skin canoes to the otters' habitat. The hunters use spears to kill the otters and then skin them for their beautiful fur pelts. Karana is angry that the Aleuts are killing so many otters.

Why can't the ship wait for Ramo according to Chief Matasaip?

Why can't the ship wait for Ramo, according to Chief Matasaip? The ship is too full of people.

What happens in Chapter 7 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

As the villagers head for the ship, Ramo runs to his sister to tell her he needs to go back for his fishing spear. She tells him not to. At the beach, all of the men have been rowed to the ship using smaller boats. Karana asks Nanko about her brother Ramo, and Nanko says that Ramo is on the ship.

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.

What did Karana find in the black cave?

When Karana returns, she knows someone has been at her cave. She looks fearfully around, not daring to enter. All she finds, however, is a necklace of beautiful black rocks left at the entrance of the cave.

What was Ramo like in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Ramo is Karana's six-year-old brother and Chief Chowig's son. He's small for his age, but very intelligent and observant. He's often getting into trouble and making mischief, which is very annoying for Karana (Karana and Ramo's mother is dead, so Karana and her older sister, Ulape, care for Ramo).

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.

Is Island of the Blue Dolphins true?

Island of the Blue Dolphins is a work of historical fiction based on the life of an American Indian woman who spent 18 years in isolation on San Nicolas Island, one of eight Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. In the book she's named Karana.

What happens in chapter 4 of the Island of the Blue Dolphins?

A fight breaks out between the otter hunters and the villagers and many village men are killed. The storm brings high winds and the hunters leave the island for their ship. The dead and wounded Ghalas-at men lie on the beach at Coral Cove.

How many chapters are in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

24. Island of the Blue Dolphins Chapter 24.

What happens in chapter 2 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

The Aleuts have come to the island of the blue dolphins to hunt otter for their pelts, and Karana describes their hunting methods. She is angry with the Aleuts, for the otter they are hunting are her friends, and she fears the Aleuts will hunt them to extinction.

What did Karana find in the chest?

The chest is buried in beach sand but Karana is able to dig open the lid. She does not find any spearheads, but she does find bead necklaces and bracelets, and she tries them on.

Why did Karana fling herself into the sea?

Karana puts on the jewelry and admires herself, but soon remembers all of the suffering that was caused by these trinkets. She throws them into the sea.

What does Karana's dog's name mean?

That night she sleeps inside the house. Karana names the dog Rontu. In her language, Rontu means Fox Eyes. Wild dogs lived on the island.

What happened in chapter 13 of 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.

What happens in chapter 12 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

In Chapter 12 of Scott O'Dell's ''Island of the Blue Dolphins,'' Karana is pleased to be back home. Her attention now is focused on how to survive safely and comfortably on the island without being menaced by the wild dogs that brutally ended her brother's life.