Julie of the Wolves...by Jean Craighead George Jean Craighead George's "Julie of the Wolves"

The title of my book is "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George. It was published by Harper & Row in 1972. The book has 155 pages. George focuses on discussing the life of an Eskimo girl named Miyax (her English name is Julie) who feels that her community is wrong in trying to decide her fate and resorts to running off into the wild and befriending a pack of wolves and a bird in an attempt to survive. The book is apparently meant to relate to the feelings Miyax experiences as she gradually comes to acknowledge that the world is no longer able to live in harmony with the natural world. People exploit their position and Miyax is disgusted as she sees that she cannot stop this process.

The story takes place in Alaska in the tundra, in Barrow,...

The story follows the main character as she is lost and develops a relationship with a pack of wolves led by Amaroq, a regal wolf. It then proceeds to recount Miyax's background and returns to the present as the girl returns to her father's village. Miyax vitually experiences a maturing process as she sees that she has to abandon the beautiful illusion of living in harmony with the natural world in order to adapt to change, just as her father went from being a traditional hunter to hunting from the helicopter.
The main character of this story is Miyax, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl who feels distressed as a result of society pressuring her into taking on attitudes that she does not identify with. This influences her to abandon her community with the purpose of travelling South in hope that she will be reunited with her pen…