I_Heard_The_Owl_Call_My_Name

I Heard The Owl Call My Name Craven, Margaret. I Heard the Owl Call My Name. New York: Dell Publishing, 1980. 159 pp. $6.99. I Heard the Owl Call My Name, a novel by Margaret Craven is a very interesting look into the lives of the Native Americans who live in the Canadian wilderness. Their village, Kingcome, is basically alone in this world, cut off from civilization by natural obstacles that can only be overcome with a great effort. It is with this same effort Craven conveys the sense of almost being in the presence of the tribe and its surroundings. Margaret Craven did an outstanding job giving me visual images of nature in great detail. For example, in the very first paragraph of chapter one, Craven describes in vivid detail the view of the inlet as Mark Brian first travels to the village. Craven is always careful to describe the environment, the mountains, sky, water and the trees. She also describes the animals that are found there. She writes of the "bald eagles fishing for herring" in chapter one and in chapter eleven she writes that "...the eagles and the robins returned to the village...wild geese heard, owl, name, mark, craven, tribe, indians, village, primitive, one, chapter, religion, book, very, new, nature, first, elders, people, language, out, native, help, hard, going, words, ways, understand, tribal, time, story, rituals, place, often, natural, margaret, knew, kingcome