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"So [Imo] took the souls of some dolphins, who at least had learned to speak, and he mixed them with clay and rubbed them in his hands and changed their shape and they became people"(1).

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"And this is why we are born in water..." (2).

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"Imo took some of the night and rubbed it in his hands and made Locaha, the god of death."

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Mau use gold as a currency to buy technology from foreigners

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Mau use gold as a currency to buy technology from foreigners

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"And we will give [the foreigners] the golden door... And you will give a gift to us too... A big telescope..."

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The Raider’s beliefs led to one of their traditions

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The Raider’s beliefs led to one of their traditions

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"They believe in single combat, one chief against another... This is about belief. If their god doesn't smile on them, they won't fight."

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Punishments made towards other people of the Nation

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Punishments made towards other people of the Nation

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"There is a story, a very old story, about two brothers who fought... One killed the other, but in the battle it could have been otherwise, and the other one dead... The killer fled, knowing the punishment and taking it upon himself... He would be sent far away from the islands, far from his people, from his family, never to walk in the steps of his ancestors, never to sing a death chant for his father, never to hear the songs of his childhood, never again to smell the sweet water of home..."(264).

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Being able to talk a Raider chief requires the person to be a man, which involves getting a tattoo through the coming-of-age ceremony:

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Being able to talk a Raider chief requires the person to be a man, which involves getting a tattoo through the coming-of-age ceremony:

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"[Mau is] just a boy, with no tattoos. [The Raiders] won't speak to [him]" (300-301)

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Daphne utilizes her wealth to negotiate with the mutineers, which keeps herself from getting shot

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Daphne utilizes her wealth to negotiate with the mutineers, which keeps herself from getting shot

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"Get me to Port Mercia, and my father will give you gold and a pardon... We'll take you off this rock at first light. Might even get you as far as dear old dad. But there'd better be gold at the end of it, or else" (250-251)

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“And this is why we are born in water, and do not kill dolphins, and look toward the stars” (2)

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"Imo thought this was a good idea, because it was his own creation, and went of to make his new world in the sky" (2)

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Mau decides that he will beat the Raiders with his knowledge about Locaha, whom they worship. 

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Mau decides that he will beat the Raiders with his knowledge about Locaha, whom they worship. 

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"Perhaps. They worship Locaha. They think he protects them. They collect skulls for him. They eat the flesh of men in his honor. They believe the more men they kill, the more slaves they will have in his country when the takes the,. They don't if they die. But Locaha makes no bargains with anyone"(290).

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Daphne panicked the two mutineers with their religion and common beliefs

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Daphne panicked the two mutineers with their religion and common beliefs

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"You shouldn't have shot the priest... It's bad luck to kill a priest... they got these spells; they can shrink your head" (250)

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"A man who will kill a priest, or kill a man for the pleasure of seeing him die, or kill a dolphin... could not be a man at all... It must have been an evil demon haunting the shell of a man, they say... The ghost girl could not have killed him, because he was already dead"(276).

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Before the fight between Mau and Cox, the twin of the prime minister orders...

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Before the fight between Mau and Cox, the twin of the prime minister orders...

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"The cannibal twin of the prime minister stepped between [Mau and Cox] with his hands raised... 'No fight yet!' he said to Cox in broken English" (309-310

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Cox’s order conflicts with the Raider’s religious order as he does not know about their traditions 

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Cox’s order conflicts with the Raider’s religious order as he does not know about their traditions 

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"They believe in single combat, one chief against another...But Cox wants them all to fight, and they know they should obey... He wants a massacre" (305).

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Daphne understands what Pilu is saying through his acting

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Daphne understands what Pilu is saying through his acting

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"What Pilu gave them was the story all over again, but with acting too... She could make out the character of Captain Roberts, heavy and pompous, and surely the one who sidled around was Polegrave, and the one who stamped and roared was Cox... They shouted at one another al the time, while Pilu's fingers popped like pistols and somehow, in the middle of the air, the story unfolded" (272-273)

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Despite helping the Nation, Daphne was still labeled as an outsider

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Despite helping the Nation, Daphne was still labeled as an outsider

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“Do you think I won’t, ghost girl?”(279)

"Things had been quite busy lately, and ‘ghost girl’ was said so sharply it had hurt. It did. Of course, they all called her ghost girl, even Mau sometimes, and it had never worried her. but this time he told her to go away, trouserman girl, you are not one of us”(279).

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Ancestors passed down knowledge through songs and stories which is a type of communication

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Ancestors passed down knowledge through songs and stories which is a type of communication

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"I think people from this island sailed around the world, a long, long time ago... You remembered, but over the years it became a story for little children" (281).

"Then [the ancestors that found/had the knowledge] made up these songs and mothers sing them to their children! That's how the knowledge gets passed down, except that [people] didn't know it was knowledge!" (284-285)

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Mau and Daphne have some problems communicating at first but they used pictures to communicate. 

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Mau and Daphne have some problems communicating at first but they used pictures to communicate. 

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Mau thinks that a drawn arrow equates to a spear, and when Daphne draws a picture intended to make him come to the ship, with an arrow, he throws a spear at it.

“A spear crashed through the cracked porthole, hissed across the cabin, and left via the porthole on the other side, which had lost all its glass to the wave"(64).

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Pilu told people the knowledge in a certain way so they understand

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Pilu told people the knowledge in a certain way so they understand

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"He began with the truth and then he hammered it out until it was very thin but gleamed like Mrs. Gurgle's new teeth at noon" (287).

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“When a human dies, [Locaha] will send them to be a dolphin until it is time for them to be born again. But when [he] finds a creature who has... glorified this mean world by being a part of it, then [he] will open a door for them into [Imo’s] perfect world, and they will no longer be creatures of time, for they will wear stars”(1-2).

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The people of the Nation get most of their food supplies from the Sweet Judy

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The people of the Nation get most of their food supplies from the Sweet Judy

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"We go to the Sweet Judy for everything... It gives use wood and food and light" (289).

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"And Mau went fishing..." (358).

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The cannon made people think that the Nation is strong

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The cannon made people think that the Nation is strong

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"The cannon give us hope... We know who we are now... We are not beggars outside the trouserman world... We are not children... Once we were the bold sailors, all the way to the other end of the world" (288).

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Mau's ancestors explored the world, and knew that the world was round

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Mau's ancestors explored the world, and knew that the world was round

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"You know the story about the brother who sailed so far he came back home... I think people from this island sailed around the world" (281)

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"See how the gods shine? There are little plates of glass all over them... Your ancestors made glass" (285).

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"[Mau] ran a hand over what Daphne called 'the globe'... his fingers following a line of gleaming gold across the stone. There were a lot of these lines, and they all led to the same place---or, rather, away from it..."(281).

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Ancestors learned about astronomy and the stars

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Ancestors learned about astronomy and the stars

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"The people of the Nation had sailed beyond the seas they knew, under unfamiliar stars... [Mau] looked up and saw unfamiliar stars" (283).

"Do you remember that the ghost girl thought the glass beads on the ceiling of the cave were a star map, but she couldn't work it out? The professor showed the world that it did indeed map the stars, but the stars as they were thirty-one thousand years ago, and that was confirmed by something called Fission Track Dating of the glass our little toy stars were made of" (360-361).

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Ancestors studied astronomy and knew about other planets in the Milky Way 

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Ancestors studied astronomy and knew about other planets in the Milky Way 

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"Your ancestors knew things that nobody else knew... Mau, the god of Air has four little figures sitting on his shoulders... They are his sons, yes? They raced around their father to see which of them would court the woman who lives in the Moon? It's in the beer song... We call the Air planet Jupiter... Jupiter has four moons that race around it... And then there is Saturn, which you call Fire... The Papervine Woman tied his hands to his belt to stop the god from stealing her daughters, yes? It's true... In a way---I don't know about the Papervine Woman, but the planet Saturn has rings around it, and I suppose they do look like a belt when you see them at the right angle" (284).

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Mau is very surprised when he figures out that the Nation is a very small island, and quickly says that it's the best, which shows at least he is very "country"

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Mau is very surprised when he figures out that the Nation is a very small island, and quickly says that it's the best, which shows at least he is very "country"

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All quotes are on page 163
"How big is the Nation... I can't see it."(Mau)

"It's not actually drawn here. It's too small..."(Pilu)

"That can't be right... it's much bigger than any of the Windcatcher Islands"(Mau)

"Islands that are even smaller... and there's lots of them."(Pilu)

"Thousands... it's just that...well, as big islands go--"(Milo)

"--This is one of the smaller ones"(Pilu)

"But the best one"(Mau)

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“Women made the beer”(56)

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The Nation is located in an island chain called by the British “The Mothering Sundays”

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The Nation is located in an island chain called by the British “The Mothering Sundays”

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“The Mothering Sundays”(184).

However, Mau's people call them either the "Sunrise Islands" or the "Windcatcher islands"(85). It is unclear what they actually call it, or if they are the same thing.

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The Nation seems to be ruled by the Grandfathers

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The Nation seems to be ruled by the Grandfathers

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This is because Mau obeys all of their orders and the Grandfather’s tone implies that they order people around all of the time.

"YOU MUST SING THE MORNING SONG AND THE EVENING SONG”(31).

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In order to become a man in the Nation, boys must build a canoe in less than 30 days on a nearby island and return to the Nation, 20 miles away.

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In order to become a man in the Nation, boys must build a canoe in less than 30 days on a nearby island and return to the Nation, 20 miles away.

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"It was a journey of more than twenty miles... He'd lived for a month on the island of the boys, hadn't he... The point about the Boys' Island was that you got away from [it]. You left your boy soul there and were given a man soul when you got back to the nation. You had to get back--otherwise something terrible happened: If you didn't get back in thirty days, they came and fetched you, and you'd never be a man... He had nightmares about building a canoe in thirty days with just a knife. It couldn't be done"(12-13).

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As well as surviving on an island and building a canoe, boys must get tattooed with a knife without screaming

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As well as surviving on an island and building a canoe, boys must get tattooed with a knife without screaming

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"If he came back ready for a man's tattoos and, obviously the thing with the knife where you must not scream"(49).

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"Mau paddled over to a large hehe fish"(19).

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When the Cutty Wren's captain is discussing how to find Daphne(he doesn't know yet that it's his mission) he mentions "England"(8).

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"Mau, who had never sat on anything but the ground or a hut floor"(65).

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The reef is on the western side of the Nation

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The reef is on the western side of the Nation

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This happened when Mau was dragging Captain Roberts body to bury him in the ocean:
"[Daphne] helped [Mau] with the difficult bits, or at least tried to, and once they reached the shore, the gray roll slid well enough on the damp sand, but it was a long and tiring drag to the western end of the beach" (69).

"At last Mau managed to get the captain into the waist-deep water at the very edge of the reef"

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The village face south and the wave came from the southeast. There is cliffs on the northern, eastern and western side which have sea caves

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The village face south and the wave came from the southeast. There is cliffs on the northern, eastern and western side which have sea caves

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"The village faced south... The other three sides were protected by sheer, crumbling cliffs, in which sea caves boomed and foamed... The wave had come from the south of east... Broken trees pointed the trail" (26).

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"If they had been quick, they would have headed up Big Pig Valley, to the higher ground beyond the fields... But some of the wave would already have been roaring up the eastern slope (all grassy there, nothing much to slow it down), they would have met it pouring back on them" (26).

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Mau tells the Nation lies to give them hope for their eventual encounter with the Raiders

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Mau tells the Nation lies to give them hope for their eventual encounter with the Raiders

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"Should he tell them the truth? Should he tell them that all I've got is a few things I know and a handful of guesses and a big hope, and that we are so weak, and that if I am wrong, those of us not dead by sunset on the day the Raiders attack will wish they were? That will only make them fear... If a lie will make us strong, a lie will be my weapon" (288-289).

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"At some time in the past something had split the rock of the island, leaving a long low valley on the east side that was not very far above sea level and had hardly any soil" (33).

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"At the end of the meadows was the Cave of the Grandfathers, high up in the wind and the sunlight, watching over the whole world... [the grandfathers] lived behind a round stone door" (32).

"There was a big bowl in front of the Cave of the Grandfathers where an offering of beer was poured every day" (56).

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"The path to the Women's Place turned off from the track into the forest and then went downhill and southwest and down into a narrow hully... At the end of it were two big stones, taller than a man, splashed with red paint... That was the only way in, back when there were rules... Mau could hear the sea, but it seemed to be a long way off" (57).

About the Women's Place's garden:
"Here and there around the edges of the gardens were huts" (58).

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"The Nation grew the big crops in the large field. That was where you found aharo, sugarcane, tabor, boomerang peas, and black corn" (57).

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"The men grew things that made you live" (57).

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"There was a god anchor in the middle of the island, a brown stone cube half buried in sand and soil... Heavy vines grew over it and wrapped around a huge Tobago tree... Carved deeply into the tree's bark, in the language from the children, were signs: Men help other men" (13).

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What the people of the nation eat as food before the tsunami hit

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What the people of the nation eat as food before the tsunami hit

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"There was plenty of wild food to eat on the island: upside-down fruit, bad-luck root, malls stems, red star tree, papervine nuts..." (39)

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"And this was hard, because one of the Right Things for a man was: don't ask silly questions" (50).

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Typically Women would only marry men and not boys that came back from the Boys' island

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Typically Women would only marry men and not boys that came back from the Boys' island

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"Everyone would know you'd failed, and you'd probably never get a wife, and if you did get a wife, she'd be a woman none of the real men wanted, with bad teeth and smelly breath" (13).

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Men and women were not allowed to step foot into each other's "territory"

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Men and women were not allowed to step foot into each other's "territory"

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"He couldn't go into the Women's Place, could he? He'd already been up there to take a look, although men couldn't go to the Women's Place, and women couldn't go into the valley of the Grandfathers" (55).