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
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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
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1- Why are whales hunted? Whales were hunted mainly for these products: * lamp oil (from sperm oil) * margarine and cooking oil (from whale oil) * candles‚ soaps‚ cosmetics and perfumes (from sperm oil) * corsets and umbrellas (from sperm oil) * whale-meat for human consumption * animal feed (from meat meal) * fertilizer (from bone meal) * string for tennis rackets (from tendons) 2- What parts of the whale are used and for what purposes? The meat was used as food
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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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I do not think whales should be in captivity because whales are way too big to be in takes at seaworld the whales can’t even move around in the tank‚ imagine you are living in the entire ocean and then you just get pulled out and get put in a tank where you can’t even move. I think that they just want a bigger crowd because it means they would get more money. Whales should not be in captivity because the tanks are way to small‚ Trainers don’t not feed the whale enough‚ and people don’t have the best
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Is It The Journey or The Destination? All people have all different views. This book‚ Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher‚ was written from the eyes of an African American teenage male. His name is The Tao (T.J. for short) He has an English teacher who usually always coaches wrestling‚ he decides he doesn’t want to contribute to wrestling this year. Mr.Simet (The English teacher) has decided he wants to coach for a Swim Team at Cutter High School. Mr.Simet approaches T.J. in the hallways during school
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Whale Rider Essay “Pai must overcome resistance as she tries to assume her destiny as the leader of a tribe on the NZ coast.” Discuss. I agree that the story‚ ‘The Whale Rider’ by Witi Ihimaera is about how a little girl‚ Pai had to overcome obstacles in her attempt to fulfil her destiny as new chief of her tribe which are the descendants from Paikea‚ the whale rider. For a thousand years‚ only the eldest son can succeed this leadership. First‚ she has to overcome Koro’s resistance when
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The Loved Little Whale: What Should Have Happened “Life had been transformed by our affection for this little whale‚ [because...] what we shared mattered” -Mike Parfit. Luna the orca has been separated from his pod ever since he was two. Through the years‚ this little orca has learned to cope not by joining another pod or learning to live in solitude‚ but by forming a miraculous bond with the citizens of Nootka Sound‚ British Columbia. As Luna gets older‚ he seems to be getting in more and more
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Throughout chapter 60‚ Ishmael describes the whale-line and how it’s set up. The rope is connected to the harpoon at one end and dangles free at the other so it can be tied at the boat lines. With how long the rope is‚ it is larger than the actual volume of the whaleboat and the sailors need to be cautious of not trying to be caught on the line. When a whale is caught by the harpoon there is line being flung every which way over the boat. If the sailor actually does get caught then his body could
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lot has been written about the strong family message in Whale Rider‚ and there is no mistaking that this story of intergenerational love and conflict is‚ on the surface‚ about the mending of a broken family‚ but there is another aspect that hasn’t been written about—or at least only touched on—and that’s the movie’s theme. It isn’t about family or even the need to honor the hand in glove relationship of tradition and progress. At root‚ Whale Rider is one of the best pictures about leadership that
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