Whale Rider Essay Whale Rider shows just how important culture and tradition is to some people. Whale Rider is about the current chief‚ Koro‚ having to accept that the tradition of the first born males becoming the next chief will have change‚ and the challenges he has to overcome by letting a female become leader and breaking the tradition and letting a girl be in control. Koro is heartbroken when he throws his whale bone into the ocean and not one of the boys manages to retrieve it. But Pai has
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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
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The film Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro depicts the journey of a determined young Maori girl‚ Paikea‚ who strives to do the impossible‚ of claiming her birthright position as chief from her very traditional grandfather‚ Koro. Koro who is the chief now‚ searches for the right individual who can lead the tribe since the original leader his son‚ Paikea’s father‚ left when his son‚ Paikea’s twin brother‚ dies at birth. To be the leader of the tribe Koro displays the working styles of examine and execute
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Whale Rider Analysis Most heroes are big strong men‚ or mythical creatures that have thousands of stories and tales written about them. This hero is an unlikely one‚ a small girl‚ from a small tribe‚ in a small village in New Zealand. Paikea is a small girl that is 13 years old‚ and is a direct descendant of Paikea‚ the original whale rider. On her journey to become the leader of the tribe‚ she comes across numerous amounts of challenges from her grandfather‚ Koro. In the Paikea tribe‚ only
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Whale Rider 1) Paikea is an example of a female activist‚ where she show the belief that men and women should be equal‚ and neither is superior. The story of Paikea was created and influenced by a man and a woman who both understand the complexities of the Maori lifestyle‚ and the difficulties that go along with living as a part of it. This is an important point as the creators of the characters can relate to the struggles of Paikea as she attempts to change tradition and make the culture more
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An Analysis of “Bus Riders” Gloria Garchitorena-Goloy The poem‚ “Bus Riders”‚ Gloria Gatchitorena-Goloy‚ is a symbolic poem written in free verse‚ the central theme of hardship can be found in the poem’s use of imagery‚ language and connotation of every word by which the meaning is implied. In her poem‚ these three fundamentals of writing smoothly work together to create a piece that represents the exhaustion and depressing characteristic of commuting by a public transportation like the bus
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Whale rider is a very influential movie that teaches us a lot about leadership‚ feminism and culture. The movie has an emphasis on leadership and the ways in which you can be a leader. It teaches you that despite not everyone will believe in you‚ you can’t let that restrict you from your goals and rights. An example of leadership in the movie‚ is when Pai beats the school bus on her bike‚ without Paka. When she accomplishes this‚ it shows that she is a leader and can beat the boys. Paka does not
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Getting left behind is pretty bad‚ but getting left behind in the Middle Eastern wilderness with a kid that only knows Arabic is a bit worse. Prue Mason’s novel Camel Rider tells the tale of a boy named Adam who was left behind by his mother and gets himself stranded in the middle of the desert. There he meets a boy named Walid‚ and together they find their way back to civilization even though communicating is very difficult. The major aspects of culture that change these heroes are religion‚ economy
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In the movie Whale Rider‚ Paikea‚ the main character‚ overcomes her struggles with Paka‚ her grandfather‚ and becomes the new leader of the tribe. Paka repeatedly rejects her throughout the movie for her gender. He is angry because she had lived after birth‚ while her twin brother did not. He scolds her everytime she attempts to try one of the excercises the boys are doing to see who will be the chosen one. Evaluating three of Gardner’s Eight Intelligences‚ readers can see how Paikea has naturalistic
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Freedom Riders The Freedom Riders were a group of african americans and white civil rights activist. They wanted to end segregation in southern states. So‚ they all got on a greyhound bus and traveled through selected southern states. The first thing I will address is how they began‚ the second will be about the challenges they went through while traveling through the southern states. Lastly‚ I will explain how it helped change segregation during that time. In 1961 african american and white
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