Characters
This is the protagonist’s name.
Who is Mafatu?
This tragic event shaped the main character’s life.
Name of the Polynesian island they live on.
What is Hikueru?
The reason why the main character feels connected to the albatross.
This is Henry’s Korean name.
What is Yegang?
The name Mafatu means this.
“Stout Heart” which means brave heart.
This is the natural element that the main character is afraid of.
The sea (Moana, the sea god)
This is the chore that the main character is given because he is afraid to go to sea.
What is making clothes, making tools, and scaling fish?
Who is Kivi, the albatross?
What is 4?
Name of the main character’s two-faced friend.
Who is Kana?
The main character faces this kind of weather when he departs the island.
What is hurricane and storm?
This is the physical reaction the main character gets when he hears the roar of the sea.
What is body tenses up and his heart beats fast?
This type of fish is highly prized by the people for food and sport.
What is bonito?
Ayako wants to be this when she grows up.
What is a basketball player?
These are the main character’s two constant companions.
Who is Uri the dog and Kivi the albatross?
This is the task that other boys do that the main character has trouble joining in with.
What is fishing for deep-sea bonito?
The object that the main character steals to escape the island.
What is a small outrigger canoe?
This is the type of garment that the main character weaves.
What is pareo?
These two students in 5th grade have the same last name.
Who are Lucas and Kensi?
Name of Mafatu’s father and his position.
The reason why the main character leaves the island.
To prove to his father, others, and himself that he is not a coward.
This is the time of day the main character leaves the island.
What is at night, in the cover of darkness?
This is the author’s name.
Who is Armstrong Perry?
Mrs. Branner is at this place right now.
Her daughter’s college in Chicago, Wheaton College.