Summary for a book called 'Julie and The Wolves'?

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I need a long summary of the book Julie and the Wolves. I was reading the book in spanish(Julie Y Los Lobos) for my spanish project but i haven't finished and its due tomorrow. Help?

Julie Y Los Lobos is by Jean Craighead George.

I've already tried sparknotes.com and i don't think they have the book

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First, in English, it is "Julie of the Wolves"

Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily married, Miyax runs away from her husband's parents' home, hoping to reach San Francisco and her pen pal. But she becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no idea which is the way to safety. Now, more than ever, she must look hard at who she really is. Is she Miyax, Eskimo girl of the old ways? Or is she Julie (her "gussak"-white people-name), the modernized teenager who must mock the traditional customs? And when a pack of wolves begins to accept her into their community, Miyax must learn to think like a wolf as well. If she trusts her Eskimo instincts, will she stand a chance of surviving? John Schoenherr's line drawings suggest rather than tell about the compelling experiences of a girl searching for answers in a bleak landscape that at first glance would seem to hold nothing.


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This book is in three parts. In the first part tells we meet Miyax on the Arctic tundra after running away from her marriage. We find that she is only thirteen years old, and is going to meet a friend in San Francisco. Miyax has run out of provisions for her trip, and realizes that she is lost. She decides to join a wolf pack to survive, so she studies their behavior and imitates it. She is accepted, and is able to care for herself. She also recognizes birds and, knowing their migration habits, is able to discern her location and direction.

The second part tells Miyax's life before part one. It tells of her father, Kapugen, and how he sent her to live with his aunt Martha and go to school, where she is called Julie. One day Aunt Martha told Miyax that her father had never returned from a hunting trip, and pieces of his kayak were found on the shore. Kapugen had arranged a marriage between Miyax and the son of one of his old friends. When she met Daniel, she was disappointed to realize that he was mentally slow. After she was married, she basically became a helper to Daniel's mother in her business of making parkas to sell to tourists. One day Daniel came home angry because others were taunting him with "having a wife and not knowing how to mate her." Miyax ran away in fear that night.

Part three goes back to being lost on the tundra. Miyax grows to love her wolf pack, and looks to the leader as her father. When she sees him killed for sport, she decides not to head to San Francisco where people do not recognize the value of the old Eskimo ways. She chooses to live alone in the wild, until she meets some people who tell her that her father is not dead. She goes to find him, but thinks that he has forsaken the Eskimo ways, and is part of the kind of people that would kill her wolf father for sport. In the end of the book, she sees that maybe the time of the Eskimos is past, and returns to her father.

I didn't care for this book too much, probably because it reminded me of Scott O'Dell's "The Island of the Blue Dolphins." Then I realized that the same author wrote "My Side of the Mountain" which is the same kind of survival story. It didn't seem to have all that much of a plot, and I didn't care for the part about Miyax's marriage, or the way she identified with the wolves. I think it's because we as people are social creatures, designed to live with each other, not alone in isolation from other people. We desire to have companions, and although dogs or other animals may be man's best friend, and solitude is necessary at times, it is hard for me to connect with a book like this.

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Summary for a book called 'Julie and The Wolves'?
I need a long summary of the book Julie and the Wolves. I was reading the book in spanish(Julie Y Los Lobos) for my spanish project but i haven't finished and its due tomorrow. Help?

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"Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable and runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were her brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's training, she struggles day by day to survive.

The wolves in the book are, of course, dealt with sympathetically and their tragedy is one deeply felt by most readers. It's not difficult to find good information about wolves; the Sierra Club's book Wolves by R. D. Lawrence is a particularly well done resource on the subject. Students might like to investigate wolves more seriously and then decide whether or not wolves would/could have adopted Julie in the way in which the book has them do. Students might also like to consider how much of her survival is her own doing.

Julie is caught between cultures and her choice is well-defined. Until the very last sentence in the book, readers are unsure which choice she will make and most are empathetic toward her dilemma. So, the discussion easily becomes which choice would they have made or was she justified. Should the book have been entitled "Miyax of the Wolves"?

The sequel Julie may answer some but not all of the questions readers may have after reading Julie of the Wolves."

Against the backdrop of a young girl's harrowing trek across the Arctic tundra, the author explores the situation native peoples face when their culture is threatened by Westernization.
At a young age Miyax is taken from her father and the Eskimo seal camp where they live and raised in American style by her aunt, who calls her Julie. Julie engages in activities that are strange to the Eskimo part of her, but exciting as well, and she comes to consider the Eskimo ways strange and old-fashioned.
Eventually, however, she depends on them when she sheds the identity of Julie and leaves her village to escape her husband. As Miyax recalls her Eskimo upbringing and learns to survive on the tundra, readers are also presented with the science of the Eskimo culture and its interdependence with native plants and animals. Miyax uses native and natural wisdom to gain acceptance by the wolf pack that saves her life.
As Miyax, and the reader, becomes more steeped in Eskimo ways, she reconsiders her decision to leave Alaska. The book's uncertain ending invites readers to decide whether traditional Eskimo culture can survive in the face of Americanization, and whether individuals can make a difference within their society."

BUT, best of all, go to link three for a five page summary of the book. The summary begins on page 21 of the article and ends on page 26. It's a PDF file that you can view as HTML.

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there's an eskimo girl who lives with or near wolves in the alaskan wilderness. there's an alpha male and a former beat up alpha male. some poachers in a helicopter. she eats meat that was prechewed. it's been years sorry.

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