Whale Rider Parenting

The Importance of good parenting
In Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro and “Pigs Can’t Fly” by Shyam Selvadurai there is a clear failure in the parenting of the protagonists. Weather a complete disregard for the feelings of the child or ignoring their significant actions, both Pai and Arjie do not get the help from their parental figure as is deserved and they respond to this in different ways. It is the ways that the protagonists respond to the failures that makes the person.
In “Whale Rider” Pai is faced with failure of not one, but two parental figures. From the day she was born her grandfather, Koro, has seen her as the cause of the death of her brother, the assumed next leader of the tribe. It is for this reason that he is so hard on her while she is trying to learn how to lead the tribe. While attempting to learn from her Paka about the old ways of her people he repeatedly tells her that, “you are a girl, sit in the back.”(Whale Rider) Pai is also failed by her father who instead of facing the problem of the death of his wife and son leaves to travel the world abandoning Pai in New Zealand with her grandparents. His actions were extremely selfish and careless of him to just leave his only child, so he can go and court another woman in Germany. Even though Pai is discarded by
She also pushes her grandfather, who when the boys of the village failed him went into a depression thinking that he failed, but in reality the only thing he fail to do was see that Pai was a special child who was destined to lead the tribe. Arjie does not have the same will that Pai has without the proper parental help he falls apart and doesn't do anything to push his parents into helping him. He falls apart because he has no idea what to do when he knows that his parents won’t do anything to help