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Tutok/The Girl
Mon-a-nee is a young otter whom Karana finds, injured, in the kelp beds after the Aleut hunters return to the Island of the Blue Dolphins. His name means “little boy with large eyes.” Karana takes him from the kelp and puts him in a tidepool to heal. While he’s healing, Karana brings him live fish—and after several weeks, he’s willing to take fish from her hand. When a storm prevents Karana from bringing him fish, Mon-a-nee returns to the ocean. Karana is sure she’ll never see him again—but later, an otter she’s sure is Mon-a-nee finds her canoe and shows her two babies. Karana soon realizes Mon-a-nee is actually female and changes her name to Won-a-nee, or “little girl with large eyes.”
Mon-a-nee/Won-a-nee Quotes in Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Chapter 11
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I felt as if I had been gone a long time as I stood there looking down from the high rock. I was happy to be home. Everything that I saw—the otter playing in the kelp, the rings of foam around the rocks that guarded the harbor, the gulls flying, the tides moving past the sandspit—filled me with happiness.
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Chapter 24
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Ulape would have laughed at me, and others would have laughed, too—my father most of all. Yet this is the way I felt about the animals who had become my friends and those who were not, but in time could be. If Ulape and my father had come back and laughed, and all the others had come back and laughed, still I would have felt the same way, for animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.
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Mon-a-nee/Won-a-nee Quotes in Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Chapter 11
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I felt as if I had been gone a long time as I stood there looking down from the high rock. I was happy to be home. Everything that I saw—the otter playing in the kelp, the rings of foam around the rocks that guarded the harbor, the gulls flying, the tides moving past the sandspit—filled me with happiness.
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Chapter 24
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Ulape would have laughed at me, and others would have laughed, too—my father most of all. Yet this is the way I felt about the animals who had become my friends and those who were not, but in time could be. If Ulape and my father had come back and laughed, and all the others had come back and laughed, still I would have felt the same way, for animals and birds are like people, too, though they do not talk the same or do the same things. Without them the earth would be an unhappy place.
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