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Karana’s Father/Chief Chowig
Ulape is Karana’s older sister. At 14, Ulape is “vain,” according to Karana, and she owns many more jewelry pieces. Ulape also dresses up to leave the island and puts a mark on her face that signifies she’s unmarried—though Karana knows she’s in love with Nanko. Though Ulape doesn’t appear again after leaving the island, Karana thinks of her more often as the years pass. She misses her sister and wonders whether Ulape and Nanko married and had lots of children.
Ulape Quotes in Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Island of the Blue Dolphins quotes below are all either spoken by Ulape or refer to Ulape. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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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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Chapter 26
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We had many happy times that summer, fishing and going to Tall Rock in our canoe, but more and more now I thought of Tutok and my sister Ulape. Sometimes I would hear their voices in the wind and often, when I was on the sea, in the waves that lapped softly against the canoe.
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Ulape Quotes in Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Island of the Blue Dolphins quotes below are all either spoken by Ulape or refer to Ulape. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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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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Chapter 26
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We had many happy times that summer, fishing and going to Tall Rock in our canoe, but more and more now I thought of Tutok and my sister Ulape. Sometimes I would hear their voices in the wind and often, when I was on the sea, in the waves that lapped softly against the canoe.
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