Diorama of the Island of the Blue Dolphins
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
The Island of the Blue Dolphins quotes below are all either spoken by Mon-a-nee/Won-a-nee or refer to Mon-a-nee/Won-a-nee. 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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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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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 Character Timeline in Island of the Blue Dolphins
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...hurt: the otter, like her, seems simultaneously happy and sad. Eventually, she names the otter Mon-a-nee, which means "little boy with large eyes." (full context)
Fishing for Mon-a-nee is hard work, especially in bad weather. He gives Karana dirty looks if she can't... (full context)
...the summer. She'll have to fish daily to feed herself. This task becomes easier once Mon-a-nee swims away. (full context)
...follows her and then pops up in front of the canoe. Karana is sure it's Mon-a-nee—and sure enough, she holds out a fish and he snatches it from her. (full context)
Karana doesn't see Mon-a-nee again until two months later. He comes to visit her with two babies in tow.... (full context)
Won-a-nee's babies grow quickly and are soon happy to take fish from Karana's hands. Won-a-nee prefers... (full context)
...often go to Tall Rock for several days during the summer to catch fish for Won-a-nee and the other otter. (full context)
...headland is the last thing she can see. She thinks of Rontu in his grave, Won-a-nee, the red fox, her canoe, and her many happy days on the island. Dolphins appear... (full context)
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