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Dolphin Song
- 95 statements
- 17 feature instances
- 12 referencing feature instances
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Dolphin Song is a 1995 children's book by Dianne Wolfer. It follows the strange connection between Melody Forrester, a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in the Australian seaside town of Durram, and a dolphin named Shara. | |
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Playing Sick | |
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Playing Sick: One day Priscilla is especially nasty to Melody and hints that Melody's best friend Kim has ditched her to join Priscilla's Girl Posse. Melody feels emotionally exhausted and struggles to hold back tears. She tells Mrs Jennings she's sick, and Mrs Jennings gives her permission to go home early. | |
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Uninvited to the Party | |
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Uninvited to the Party: Priscilla's family is hosting a poolside barbecue party. Melody isn't invited, but everyone else is, including her best friend Kim and her crush Wayne. | |
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| Dolphin Song / int_31898188 | type |
Recurring Dreams | |
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Recurring Dreams: After Melody meets Shara and Speckle, she starts to have a recurring dream about being a dolphin and frantically searching for something. When she wakes up, she can never remember what she was looking for. She's Dreaming of Things to Come about Shara searching for Speckle's spirit so she can guide it to the afterlife. | |
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No Guy Wants an Amazon | |
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No Guy Wants an Amazon: Priscilla, the Alpha Bitch of Melody's school, is a believer in this trope. She taunts Melody for being too broad-shouldered and muscular to ever attract a boy. | |
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Infant Sibling Jealousy | |
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Infant Sibling Jealousy: Melody has two half-siblings, Lisa and Justin, both below age three. Melody adjusted easily enough when Lisa was born, but ever since Justin came along, Melody has felt like her father John and her stepmother Felicity are more interested in the kids than they are in her. She also dislikes the mess and chaos of living with two small children. | |
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Go to Your Room! | |
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Go to Your Room!: Melody comes home from school in a bad mood and gets in an argument with her stepmum Felicity. Felicity tells her, 'If you're not in the mood to behave in a civil way, why don't you go straight to your room.' | |
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The Power of Hate | |
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The Power of Hate: Melody's anger at Priscilla helps her outswim everyone else at the school swimming carnival, breaking the school record. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: Speckle is caught in a fishing net, which severely damages his flipper. Shara can do nothing but watch. John, who works on the fishing boat, tries to free Speckle, but by the time he gets him loose, Speckle has bled out. | |
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Pet Dress-Up | |
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Pet Dress-Up: When Melody was younger, she used to dress her dog Blister in a bib for her tea parties. | |
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You're Not My Father | |
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You're Not My Father: Melody, who is upset about Priscilla and taking it out on Felicity, says, 'Who do you think you are anyway? You're not my mother. Why don't you just leave me alone!' | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Interrupted Suicide: Attempted. Shara beaches herself so she can be reunited with Speckle in the afterlife. Melody finds her half-dead on the beach and uses her towel to keep her wet. Then John finds them and helps Melody carry Shara back into the water. But by that point it's too late for Shara, who dies soon after. | |
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Friendly, Playful Dolphin | |
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Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Melody first meets Shara and her son Speckle in the Bay of Birthing, a bay near Melody's house, when Speckle is a young calf. The three play together in the shallows. Speckle loves leaping out of the water to show off for Melody. | |
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Punch a Wall | |
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Punch a Wall: Melody takes out her anger at Priscilla by punching a wall. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
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Switching P.O.V.: The main viewpoint characters are Melody and Shara, but several other humans also narrate, as does Speckle occasionally. Chapters narrated by dolphins are in italics. All narration is in the third person limited. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: After Shara dies, she is reunited with Speckle and guides him to the great ocean beyond the waves. | |
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Humans Are Ugly | |
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Humans Are Ugly: As the dolphin pod passes a boat, Speckle glimpses humans on the deck: clumsy, awkward creatures with loose, flapping skin and wiggling tentacles on the ends of their upper limbs. Speckle compares them to blowfish, the ugliest fish in the sea. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Children's Literature / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Go to Your Room! / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Humans Are Ugly / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Infant Sibling Jealousy / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Interrupted Suicide / int_a18a93e6 | |
| Dolphin Song | hasFeature |
Pet Dress-Up / int_a18a93e6 | |
| Dolphin Song | hasFeature |
Playing Sick / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Switching P.O.V. / int_a18a93e6 | |
| Dolphin Song | hasFeature |
The Power of Hate / int_a18a93e6 | |
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Uninvited to the Party / int_a18a93e6 | |
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You're Not My Father / int_a18a93e6 |
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