Whale rider The movie is about Pai‚ a 12 year old who is the only living child in the line of the tribe’s chiefly succession because of the death of her twin brother and mother during childbirth. The leader is usually a male‚ and because pai is a female‚ her grandfather‚ koro is unhappy about her birth. As pai grows up‚ she finds that living with her grandfather is not easy‚ because even though he formed sort of an affectionate bond with her ; carrying her to school every day on his bicycle‚ he
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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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The whaling ship Peqoud was a great Whaling ship in its day‚ but that all changed when they encountered the great White Whale. The crew of the Peqoud were mostly experienced seamen but that didn’t help there fate. On that stormy day that the Peqoud and its crew met its fate they were on the hunt...for Moby dick. Captan Ahab was in charge of the Peqoud at this time and he was the man who made the decision to hunt Moby dick. Although the Peqoud was a whaling ship they went after Moby dick purely for
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“A girl‚ I will have nothing to do with her! She has broken the line of male descent in our tribe.”- The Whale Rider “ Witi Ihimaera”. The Whale rider is about a girl Kahu or Pai that from birth was destined to be the new whale rider‚ but the chief Koro Apirana wouldn’t teach her. He didn’t teach her because he thought to be a leader you had to be a male‚ so she wasn’t good enough to be the rider. The theme is overcoming the odds to achieve greatness. This theme is intriguing because she has to prove
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In the video “Why do whales sing?”‚ the speaker mentions that whales sing to communicate with one another. First of all‚ due to the fact that light and smell do no travel well in the water‚ most of marine animals rely on sound‚ which can travel four times faster in water than in the air. Especially‚ whales communicate by using sound very skillfully as if they sang. According to the video‚ unlike land mammals‚ who generate sounds by exhaling air‚ whales produce sounds by using an organ called “Laryngeal
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Whale Rider is a 2002 drama film directed by Niki Caro‚ based on the novel of the same name. A contemporary story of love‚ rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to full fill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. The film whale rider follows the story of a young girl Paikea; the lonely daughter of Porourangi. Pai’s mother died giving birth to her and her twin brother who also dies. Porourangi was heartbroken by his loss and leaves his daughter to be brought up by her grandparents
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Beluga Whales Beluga whales are one of the smallest species of whales. These whales are one of the two members of the Monodontidae family‚ along with the narwhal. This whale is sometimes referred to as the “sea canary” due to it’s high pitched squeak. This whale has adapted to life in the Arctic. It has developed many characteristics to help it with living in this cold water. It’s body has a high percentage of blubber to help keep it warm. These whales can weigh up to 3‚500 pounds. These whales have also developed a special kind of
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What Is The Author Trying To Say In The Whale Rider? Let’s face it. We all have those family members. I’m talking about the annoying cousins‚ siblings‚ and (if you are a teen) parents. Embarrassing aunts and so on and so forth. The point is‚ everyone has family members that they don’t like. For example‚ in the book‚ The Whale Ride by Witi Ihimaera‚ there are lots of tensions throughout the story between family members. As I read this book‚ I think the author’s message to us‚ the readers of the
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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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