Robert Marley's The Dolphin Catcher By Bob Marley

Jamaica is a small island in the Caribbean, however it is the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean. Jamaica has many traditions and lifestyles, but two of them are music industry and sport. In the music industry, you will find many music legends, and one of them is Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley). Marley is a Jamaican born musician, known for his reggae. He was born in 1945 and died at the age of 36, in 1981. Bob Marley & The Wailers’ most famous song is “Sun is shining” and it is a reggae soundtrack. I find the music industry very interesting because it has soundtracks to various movements in Jamaica, such as Rastafari. Rastafari is an Afro-Caribbean political and spiritual movement, that found place in the 1930s in Jamaica.

It seems like he changed his meanings through the text. I think the author is very negative and non-objective in the text. Like I said, the world needs more pleasant events, since it is so much awful things that happens every day in the world.

Task 2a)

Poor Lloyd

In the text “The Dolphin Catcher”, Lloyd is the main person. He’s a twelve-year-old Jamaican boy, who lives with his mother in a two-roomed house in the Western Sewerage Plant. Lloyd’s grandfather is a fisherman, so Lloyd is a boy descended from generations of generations of fishermen. His beloved grandfather was a sailorman. In the text, we didn’t get to know him that well. It seems like he was gone before the text started. It is just Lloyd that keeps telling us about stories his grandfather told him and things they experienced together, for example when his grandfather left for his anchorage. In the text, it seems like his grandfather keeps old habits, traditions and cultures. Instead of using the “new” fishing gear for example pots or nets, he used a fishing line and a knife. He thought those methods were useful and a waste of time, because it catches everything from above, for example turtles, eels, and trash

I think it is not good for Lloyd to look for his grandfather all the time, because his grandfather is gone. Sometimes when Lloyd is waiting for his grandfather, he hallucinates him paddling towards him. I think if he had some friends he could hang out with, he wouldn’t be so alone and he could may have accepted that his grandfather never came back.

Lloyd and his mother has a bad economy. They live in the Western Sewage Park in a two-roomed house. In the text, it does not have so much information about their economy, but I assume it is bad, since they can afford a “cheap fan on Princess Street”. We get an aspect of how Lloyds father’s economy is, but it is not that good either. He has been fired from a job that he didn’t made enough money from. Lloyds father had ambitious plans, that he could be somebody, but God was against him.

I think the text has an open ending, because after I read the text, I have some unanswered questions like; did his grandfather die?, did his grandfather die because of he used the old fishing gear? or did he use old fishing gear because he couldn’t afford new ones. If so, I think his grandfather didn’t wanted to tell Lloyd that he was struggling with money, because he was and always will be a role model for