Julie of the Wolves: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: The story is chock full of them, but most notably, Amaroq, the alpha male.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Sure at the end Julie makes it out of the tundra and is united with a long-lost member of her family, but her surrogate parent is dead, her pet is dead and the Eskimo way of life is over.

* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Certain foods and smells are described as being delicious or wonderful, but given that these items tend to be things like raw owl entrails and wolf piss, it's more [[Squick]] than anything. The former is an actual Eskimo delicacy, and the latter is due to Miyax's experience with wolves.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Miyax's father disappears while kayaking and is presumed to be dead. {{spoiler|He's not.}}

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Implied to be a trope present in Eskimo culture. Miyax hasn't had her first period yet, but an Eskimo couple she encounters on the tundra guesses that her period is the reason she's out there alone. The woman recalls an old and mostly-defunct tradition to send young women into the wilderness by themselves when they are menstruating.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[Science Marches On]]: Several decades after the book was published it's been discovered that wolf packs aren't so much a social structure based on dominance, but a nuclear family with the mother and father being the leaders.

* [[Xenofiction]]: Not so much the first two installments, but the last book, Julie's Wolf Pack, certainly qualifies