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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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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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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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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The main character of the film Whale Rider is Paikea Apirana. She is an 11 year old girl‚ who was born in the New Zealand Maori tribe. As soon as she was born‚ she was unwanted by the members of her tribe. This is because both her mother and twin brother died during the birth‚ leaving Paikea alone. Paikea states in a voice over of this scene‚ “there was no gladness when I was born. My twin brother died and took my mother with him. Everybody was waiting for the first born boy to lead us but he died
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The New Zealand film‚ Whale Rider (2002) directed by Niki Caro is an extraordinary example of the feminist literary theory. The visual text follows the journey of a young eleven-year-old Maori girl named Pai‚ shorten for Paikea who believes she is destined to be the next chief in line of the patriarchal Maori tribe she is part of in the east coast of New Zealand. No matter the circumstances her traditional‚ stubborn grandfather named Koro refuses to accept that a female could possibly lead and guide
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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 has
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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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Whale Rider The “Whale Rider”‚ filmed in New Zealand and directed by Niki Caro‚ is a film based on the novel of the same name‚ by Witi Ihimaera. Many of the extras in the film were actual residents of the town Whangara. The film is about a girl‚ Paikea Apirana‚ played by Keisha Castle-Hughes in her debut role‚ who battles to gain her grandfather’s respect‚ and to become the chief of the tribe. By tradition‚ the leader of the tribe should be the first son‚ however Pai’s twin brother had died at
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