What are the motifs in Julie of the Wolves by Jean George?

Survival is a recurring idea. Summer or winter, tundra or living room, Julie of the Wolves is consistently concerned with survival. On the most obvious level, the story of a thirteen-year-old girl alone in the wilderness without food will be concerned with survival. Indeed, in the first pages Miyax concentrates on survival even to the exclusion of her original goal, walking to Point Hope to catch the North Star. Her observation of the wolves is motivated entirely by her hope that they will help her survive, but all her activities independent of the wolves, such as building shelter, searching for food and marking paths, has the same goal, survival.