Write down about the following characters. (one paragraph each) White Dolphin Kara
Kara's father
Felix
Aunt Bev

Explanation:

Kara lives with her father Jim in a fishing village in Cornwall. Her mother, a marine

biologist, disappeared a year ago on a dolphin-saving expedition to the Solomon Islands

but Kara believes that she will return. This faith is strengthened by a rare sighting of a

white dolphin calf, which she sees as a sign that her mum is still out there.

Kara and Jim have been taken in by Kara’s aunt and uncle but money is tight so Jim is

forced to put the family boat, named Moana, up for sale. Kara is very unhappy about this,

as Moana is one of her last links to her missing mother.

Kara breaks the nose of the school bully, Jake, whose father, Dougie, owns the fishing

trawlers that employ her uncle. Kara’s mother had successfully campaigned for a ten-year

dredging ban to conserve the local coral reef, which is about to expire. Dougie blames

Kara’s mother for the loss of his elder son, who drowned whilst fishing beyond the ban

limit. Jake vows that his family will destroy Kara and her father, and soon afterwards Jim’s

lobster pots are sabotaged.

Kara meets a new boy at school, Felix, who has Cerebral Palsy. They do not hit it off and

when Felix’s father offers to buy Jim’s boat, Kara is determined to put him off sailing so

that she can keep Moana. Much to her surprise, Felix takes to sailing easily, finding that

his mobility difficulties are lessened at sea. Kara is relieved, however, when his father

decides not to buy Moana, opting instead for a more manageable dinghy that Felix can

sail singlehanded.

Kara finds the white dolphin calf trapped in a fishing net, beached and in distress. With

help from Felix, his father, and the marine rescue team, the calf is cared for in a tidal pool,

but becomes separated from the mother dolphin, meaning that it might have to be put

down as it cannot be returned to the wild alone. In a daring night dive, Kara finds the

mother dolphin and leads it to the tidal pool.

Meanwhile Kara is unable to find the password for her mother’s dolphin-shaped memory

stick, which she believes holds a crucial message.

Felix mobilizes support for a local fishermen’s boycott of dredging, using the plight of the

white dolphin to attract media attention. At a public debate, Dougie has almost swayed

the crowd against the conservationists when Felix, who has found the password for the

memory stick, delivers the campaigners’ master stroke: Kara’s mother’s final

documentary about the long-term ill effects of sea dredging.

Soon afterwards, the dolphin calf is returned to the sea with its mother and Felix shows

Kara a photograph of her mother before her last dive. It is now almost certain that she

died in a diving accident that was covered up.

Public opinion has turned against Dougie, but he persists in dredging the bay

regardless and sacks Kara’s uncle for refusing to join him. Kara discovers that

Dougie has bought Moana for Jake to sail in the local regatta, and that the white

dolphin’s mother has been drowned in one of Dougie’s nets.

The regatta is cancelled due to a predicted storm, but Jake and his friend Ethan

insist on taking Moana out to sea. Felix and Kara follow in the dinghy and save

Jake and Ethan when they run into trouble. Grateful not to lose his surviving son,

Dougie promises to stop dredging and to research dolphin-friendly fishing.

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Themes for exploring White Dolph

Kara Wood : Kara is the main character of the Novel. She suffers from dyslexia and is bullied for it in school. She lost her mother a year ago but still hopes she will come back soon. Like her mother, she is a nature lover and is worried about the end of the dredging ban.  

Felix : Felix comes from London and is suffering from cerebral palsy. Like Kara, he is also bullied in School. Despite his disability, he is intelligent and helps Kara in the extension of the dredging ban.

Kara's dad (Jim): Kara's father Jim is also suffering from dyslexia and because of this, he is unable to find any good job. He and Kara live with his sister Bev as he is unable to afford a house.

Aunt Bev/Uncle Tom : Aunt Bev and Uncle Tom live in a caravan. Aunt Bev is expecting a baby and is always concerned about the future.  

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)