Read this passage: The storm howled, and Nicki could barely hear the
captain's voice as she stood out on the bow of the ship.
She remembered a time when standing here would have
terrified her. "Boats are no place for children," her father
had said. But now she was not a child. Her father, on the
other hand, never seemed to change. He slept below the
deck, steady and stubborn as always. Nicki looked out at
the vast expanse of sea, dreaming of the places she wa
going to go, unaware of the man in the top hat, who
continued to stalk her.
Which statement best identifies the characters in the passage?
O A. The captain is a flat character; Nicki's father is also a flat
character.
B. The man in the top hat is a flat character; Nicki is also a flat
character.
C. Nicki's father is a round character; the captain is a protagonist.
D. Nicki is an antagonist; Nicki's father is a round character.

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .