Have you ever been the new kid at school? How did you feel? What did you do? And how did you treat everyone? This was Roz’s experience when she came to the island. To survive, she wanted to connect with all the animals and make friends. She made a really big impact on the island.
One of the most important things that Roz does to change the island’s community is she changes how most of the animals think and behave in their every day life. For example, over time, Roz began to gain all the animals’ trust by observing their behaviour and learning to speak their languages. She treated all the animal equally and with lots of respect. Every animal including the carnivores began to be nice to her and each other. Eventually, every animal, including foxes and birds, and animals that used to eat each other, started to get along. She was known as everyone’s friends. She got to know everyone on the island by name. The island became a very a peaceful place as a result of Roz’s behaviour.
Another example of her kindness is when Roz made lodges and fires in each of the lodges to keep the animals warm during the big snow storm. None of the animals were expecting the snowstorm to come so early, so many of the animals died including one of the bird’s in the flock. Roz, along with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, built lodges to keep all the animals warm. Roz had to make a really big lodge for the moose. All the animals who eventually got into the lodges were protected except one of the lodges burst into flames as they put too many logs in the fire. Roz went into this burning lodge to save a baby animal from being burnt.
Lastly, when the three RICOS came to the island, everyone on the island stopped the three RICOS from getting to Roz and taking her away. since Roz was so nice to everyone and influenced their change in how they treated one another, the animals returned the favour and protected Roz from the three RICOS. The two bear cubs risked their lives to save Roz and their mom got shot for her. The animals may not have protected Roz if she hadn’t saved so many of them throughout the story.
That is how I think Roz changed the community. Everyone on the island learned to care for each other.
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