Island of the Blue Dolphins
The short novel, Island of the Blue Dolphins, portrays the ocean through the eyes of young tribal children, giving the water an innocent appeal. The simple words and matter-of-fact tone describe the ocean in its most basic form. To the young boy, the ocean is "a flat stone without any scratches." His words are straight-forward and lower in diction, but they so vividly express an image of calm water. The young boy's sister argued with him, saying it was just unmoving water, but he saw the sea in the raw as a "blue stone," and the sky as "a small cloud which sits on the stone." A child's perspective of the vast, mighty sea is rare insight into its simplicity.
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