Part A What inference can be made about Paul's role in the narrator's experience at Rock Island in "Raccoon Olympics"? Paul acts as a security guard, by cautioning the narrator of the dangers on the beach at the tip of the island. Paul acts as a protector for the narrator, by helping her to see what is appropriate for her. Paul acts as a tour guide, by showing the narrator and her family the island's lighthouse. Paul acts as an entertainer for the narrator by telling her stories about the island's history. Question 2 Part B Which evidence best supports the answer in Part A? "Paul doesn’t really say what the raccoons look like when they swim. But my swimming raccoons wear goggles and have special swim caps fitted over their ringed tails to decrease drag." "It will not occur to me until I am an adult to wonder if Paul convinced all the kids he could train wild raccoons to compete in swim meets, or if he just made up a kinder explanation for me." "'So, to test their

1. Paul acts as a protector for the narrator, by helping her to see what is appropriate for her.  

2. "It will not occur to me until I am an adult to wonder if Paul convinced all the kids he could train wild raccoons to compete in swim meets, or if he just made up a kinder explanation for me."

Explanation:

"Raccoon Olympics" is a short story where the narrator, who is a child, tells about the day she went with her father to a park where there were many raccoons and Paul, the park biologist is capturing the raccoons because they didn’t have natural predators in that region and were becoming a plague. The narrator asks what was done with the captured raccoons and Paul says that they are taken to a raccoon swimming Olympics. However, as readers we know that this does not happen and raccoons are captured to be executed, but Paul knows that this is not appropriate information for a child to hear and prefers to make up a fun story about what happens to them.

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