Whale rider
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera has many important themes that are represented by several characters in the text such as Koro Aprina, who struggles to put aside traditional values and struggles to input morden values.We have Nanny Flowers who has that everyday struggle with her husband over who gets that last say in what but Nanny Flowers takes peoples feeling into consideration as Koro Aprina lacks that quality in him.
Koro Aprina is old and a very precise man. He is the type of person that follows the rules and lives out his life without any type of change to his agenda. In this story he has a big head for the old Maori traditions and he likes to keep them in tact. “A girl?. I will have nothing to do with her. She has broken the male line of our decent in our Whanau.Aue”. Koro Aprina was not a happy man whilst he had been informed about the birth of Kahu, Koro Aprina wasn’t very keen on Kahu. He was always very distant of Kahu and didn’t show a whole lot of affection towards Kahu but Kahu still tried her hardest.
Nanny Flowers has definitely got her winning sides in most of the argument,
“He isn’t any chief, I’m his Chief”. This line indicates that Koro Aprina isn’t in charge in the house and in fact Nanny flowers is the boss of him and not the other way around. In majority of the chapters what ever Nanny Flowers says, it goes. “He’s sleeping in the bunkhouse tonight” and that's what happens.Its not to say the Nanny flowers wears the pants in their relationship because from what i’ve read most of the time its Koro Aprina. Nanny flowers is a strong headed woman and won’t let people change her mind quite that easily and she definitely won’t let Koro Aprina do so.
Kahu has to overcome Koro’s resistance when Koro rejects her at the very start of her birth because she is not a male and so according to the tradition, cannot be the new chief of the tribe. He considers her “of no use to him” and “a disappointment” simply because she is a
Koro Aprina is old and a very precise man. He is the type of person that follows the rules and lives out his life without any type of change to his agenda. In this story he has a big head for the old Maori traditions and he likes to keep them in tact. “A girl?. I will have nothing to do with her. She has broken the male line of our decent in our Whanau.Aue”. Koro Aprina was not a happy man whilst he had been informed about the birth of Kahu, Koro Aprina wasn’t very keen on Kahu. He was always very distant of Kahu and didn’t show a whole lot of affection towards Kahu but Kahu still tried her hardest.
Nanny Flowers has definitely got her winning sides in most of the argument,
“He isn’t any chief, I’m his Chief”. This line indicates that Koro Aprina isn’t in charge in the house and in fact Nanny flowers is the boss of him and not the other way around. In majority of the chapters what ever Nanny Flowers says, it goes. “He’s sleeping in the bunkhouse tonight” and that's what happens.Its not to say the Nanny flowers wears the pants in their relationship because from what i’ve read most of the time its Koro Aprina. Nanny flowers is a strong headed woman and won’t let people change her mind quite that easily and she definitely won’t let Koro Aprina do so.
Kahu has to overcome Koro’s resistance when Koro rejects her at the very start of her birth because she is not a male and so according to the tradition, cannot be the new chief of the tribe. He considers her “of no use to him” and “a disappointment” simply because she is a