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 film Whale Rider I about a young girl named Paikea. When Paikea was born‚ she had a twin brother‚ but unfortunately her brother died along with her mother. Whale Rider was filmed in Whangara in New Zealand. The film does not only show us one girl’s experience of growing up‚ but also tells us about the Maori culture‚ tradition how gender is treated‚ and their leadership. Firstly‚ tradition is expressed in the film when Koro was teaching the boys how to fight like warriors with a taiaha ‘The
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THE WHALE RIDER The film’s plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana ("Pai")[In the book‚ her name is Kahu‚ short for Kahutia Te Rangi]‚ a 12-year-old girl who is the only living child in the line of the tribe’s chiefly succession following the death of her twin brother and mother when she was born. By tradition‚ the leader should be the first-born son a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea‚ aka Kahutia Te Rangi in the book‚ the Whale Rider he who rode on top of a whale from Hawaiki. However‚ Pai
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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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EUR 101 Spring 2013 Foundations of Europe 1:00-2:20 p.m. T Th Harriman 137 DEC G Professor: Timothy Westphalen Office: Humanities 1140 E-mail: Timothy.Westphalen@StonyBrook.edu Office Hours; Tues. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Tues.‚ 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thurs. 2:30-3:30 p.m. And by appointment. Teaching assistant: Anna Geisherik Office: Humanities 1077 E-mail: ageisherik@gmail.com Office hours: Tues. and Thurs.‚ 4:30-5:15; 7-7:45p.m. READINGS (All books available in the
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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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2012 The Nobel Prize in Physics Serge Haroche‚ David J. Wineland The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Robert J. Lefkowitz‚ Brian K. Kobilka The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Sir John B. Gurdon‚ Shinya Yamanaka The Nobel Prize in Literature Mo Yan The Nobel Peace Prize European Union (EU) The Prize in Economic Sciences Alvin E. Roth‚ Lloyd S. Shapley 2011 The Nobel Prize in Physics Saul Perlmutter‚ Brian P. Schmidt‚ Adam G. Riess The Nobel Prize in Chemistry Dan Shechtman The Nobel
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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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The Whale’s Evolution Whales evolved from an ancestor that lived on land. That may be incredibly hard to believe‚ but we have a lot of information to lead to that conclusion. Land mammals and whales have a lot more in common than you may think. Land mammals have hair‚ a nasal opening by its snout‚ arms‚ legs‚etc‚ and DNA leading back to millions of years. Whales also have similar qualities to those of the land mammals. Whales weren’t always the whales we know today because long ago
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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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