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Island of the Blue Dolphins
By
Scott O’Dell
Perhaps I should tell you about our island so you will know
how it looks and where our village was and where the Aleuts camped for most
of the summer.
Our island is two leagues long and one league wide, and if you were standing
on one of the hills that rise in the middle of it, you would think that it
looked like a fish. Like a dolphin lying on its side, with its tail pointing
toward the sunrise, its nose pointing to the sunset, and its fins making reefs
and the rocky ledges along the shore. Whether someone did stand there on the
low hills in the days when the earth was new and, because of its shape, called
it the Island of the Blue Dolphins…
The first thing you would notice about our island, I think, is the wind. It blows almost every day, sometimes from the northwest and sometimes from the east, once in a long while out of the south. All the winds except the one from the south are strong, and because of them the hills are polished smooth and the trees are small and twisted, even in the canyon that runs down to Coral Cove.
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