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Zenia Colon. 1  Violet swells up and becomes a giant blueberry-girl in Charlies and the Chocolate Factory. 2  Violet is the name of the Blueberry Girl in Charley and The Chocolate Factory.
Character List. Karana (also Won-a-pa-lei) - The protagonist and narrator of the book, Karana spends eighteen years as the only living person on the island of the blue dolphins. When the book opens, she is twelve years old, the daughter of the chief of Ghalas-at. Resourceful and resilient, she survives on her own after her tribe deserts Ghalas-at.