I Heard Ther Owl Call My Name

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I heard the owl call my name

In the book “I heard the owl call my name” by Margaret Craven, the main character Mark Brown sees life differently because of his new environment he has been placed in, Kingcome. Mark learns and understands himself more in his new setting. Within the book many passages show that he learned that he was like a swimmer and belongs with them. On page 47 Marta says “ The swimmer is your relative. You belong to the salmon people.” never in marks wildest dreams would he ever consider himself related to the swimmer; and so he learned something new about himself. Another thing Mark learned and understood about himself was how well he adopted to new things. These are just some of the ways Mark learned and understood more about him. Some other ways Mark saw life differently was in his his surroundings, he came to understand and respect them more. On page 147 an example of this reads. ‘ here he gave the ashes of calamity to the sea, and when he came to the last words of the committal, rest eternal grant unto him O Lord.” he heard the echo of the words come back to him from across the narrow channel, softly and eerily as if from some other world.” This shows how he understands his environment. Another example is found on page 47. “ but keetah it isn’t the whole life of thew swimmer i9s one courage and adventure. All of it builds to the climax and the end. When the swimmer dies he has spent himself completely for the end of which he was made, and this is not sadness, it is triumph.” This shows that he has thought of this deep ly and has learned from it. Here is an example of what life environmentally wise, was like for the mark. “ how would he live again in the world he had almost forgotten, where men throw up smoke screens between themselves and the fundamentals whose existence the fear but seldom admit?” pages 145. Those showed that instead of just seeing his environment he actually unders...