Julie of the Wolves

Miyax describes her memories in terms of a color wheel. Give at least three examples from the book.

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In Part II, Miyax spends five years living a traditional Eskimo life at the seal camp, and she sees those memories as color spots. Her father's little driftwood house, full of harpoons, drums, knives and a kayak, is rosy-gray outside and warm gold-brown inside. She remembers the ocean as green and white, rimmed with fur, because she saw it from inside Kapugen's parka as she rode to sea with him. The celebration of the Bladder Feast, in which the spirits of seals are returned to the sea in their inflated bladders, is rose colored from her memory of Kapugen's hand in hers. A memory of Naka and Kapugen doing a dance in which they imitate wolves is flickering yellow. Another of Kapugen bringing in a huge white whale on the first day the sun rose over the horizon is a silver memory, which includes the bent woman dancing to put the whale's spirit into her I'noGo tied to return it to the sea.

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