The Music of The Dolphins 1-181

"The Music of The Dolphins" by Karen Hesse is a fictional book about a young teen who is found living among a pod of dolphins off the shores of Cuba . When the coast guards find her, they take her to an institution to teach her about learning and music. The whole book is in first person as we get to read Mila's thoughts that she can not express to the teachers at the institution. As the book goes on, her thoughts become more sophisticated and intellectual and she is able to express her ideas more evenly with the teachers. In this part of the book, the teachers at the institution have put Mila in a room alone and are showing her the video of her rescue.

In that television I see a girl with long, long hair. She is not wearing
any clothes. She is on a beach. I am interested to see a girl on the beach. I
watch. Then she is not on the beach.She is in a new place, wrapped up in a
blanked. A hand offers the girl a drink. The girl sees the water in a cup, but
she is not certain what to do . First her finger dips in the water. Then her
finger goes to her mouth. The girl decides the water is good to drink, and she
makes a cup with her hands. She does not know how to drink from a paper cup. She
drinks water poured form the cup into her hands. The girl is very short. Her
ears are very big.

Then I see Doctor Beck and Sandy inside the television. They are with
the little big-ear girl. They are trapped in the television with her. I run to
the television to help Sandy and Dr.Beck get out. I beat the television with my
shoulder. I cannot make the wall to come down. I take my chair. I throw my chair
at the television. Lights flash everywhere. I jump away. Little lights snapping
and popping. Then the lights are gone. But Dr.Beck and Sandy are gone too.

I think that this passage almost relates to EL&IC because in many ways she is still young and can not let go of being a child- or in this case a dolphin. Also, it is weird to see how fast she can loose the information she was taught, and how she feels strongest as a dolphin rather than a human. It hurts me to see that she learned so much, but in some ways she interpereted it the wrong way . That is what lead her to not understanding.