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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Whale Rider 1) The Maori people have migrated from the island Hawaiki‚ around 800 to 1200 AD. The story was about a family and they were Maoris. A man named Koko is grandfather to a little girl named Paikea. Koko was the leader of the Maori people in the place they lived in and he wanted to find a new leader‚ which had to be a boy if he wanted to follow the tradition. The person who actually head to be the next leader was Koko’s grandson‚ but he didn’t have a grandson‚ and he could not do like
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Notes Written by Bronwyn Owen CAMEL RIDER By Prue Mason Overview For Adam‚ living with his pilot father and family in an expatriate compound in Abudai in the Arabian Gulf‚ life could not be easier. But when war breaks out‚ Adam finds himself alone and attempting to find his way back to the abandoned compound to save his dog‚ Tara‚ who has been left in the mad rush to escape across the boarder. We also meet Walid‚ living a miserable life as a camel rider in a camp on the outskirts of Abudai.
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John Brehm’s “sea of Faith” is a short 46 line poem written in 2004‚ which vividly describes a conversation being played out in the speaker’s head. A student asks the teacher (speaker) if the Sea of Faith is physically real‚ to which the poems view shifts to the thoughts occurring in the teachers head. While he is forming his thoughts‚ he comes to the conclusion that the students in his class are unknowledgeable and don’t pay attention very well. His thoughts further develop to a pool of insults
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Zealand consul. The Whale Rider was written in New York and Cape Cod in the space of three weeks. Ihimaera was inspired to write the book in 1985 while living in an apartment in New York overlooking the Hudson River. Ihimaera had taken his daughters to a number of action movies. They asked him why in all of those movies the boy was the hero and the girl was always the one who was helpless. So he decided to Write a novel in which the girl is the hero and he finished The Whale Rider in three weeks. The
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Analysis of the poem “Sea Fever” by John Masefield The poem is about a person whose intense desire is to return to the sea. The person or the speaker has been to the sea before and the repetition of the line “I must go down to the seas again” in every stanza‚ brings out the speaker’s longing to experience sea life again. The speaker wants only a star to guide his tall ship‚ with the sails moving to the wind thereby wishing for a solitary life‚ with only nature taking control in directing him. “And
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The Freedom Riders: Terminators of Segregation Picture being on a bus traveling throughout the South in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement‚ knowing that when the bus arrives at the first stop‚ a group of activists against segregation called Freedom Riders will be viciously attacked by mobs of whites. Any advice to stay home and avoid the situation was disregarded by these brave Americans because defending the rights of African Americans was most important. Each rider understood that they
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Literary Analysis Tamper with time and the world you know can become a world you do not want to live in. The novel Time Riders the Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow is a book about three characters who time travel to the future and the past by using this relic to save the future and prevent time travel to destroy history. The plot of the novel Time Riders is filled with mystery‚ confusion‚ and chaos. First off‚ this novel is full of mystery because there’s a manuscript called the Voynich Manuscript
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Heldt Mr. Bender English 10000 8 May 2012 The Sea After reading The Old Man and the Sea‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ I found the most interesting part of the book to be the sea itself. One can almost consider the sea another character‚ due to the vital role it plays in the short novella. The sea provides a glimpse at Santiago’s knowledge and experience that he has acquired throughout the course of his life. As well as the sea is used as a metaphor to the literary community‚ if one
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Autobiography: The Sea My family took a vacation the summer before sixth grade. We were in Maui‚ Hawaii to be exact‚ it was paradise. We walked to the beach from my family’s cabin everyday. As I looked around‚ the white sand felt scalding and the water was warm. The shore was filled with coral rocks‚ crashing waves and laughing children playing with the warm‚ wet sand. The water rose and fell‚ each time dissolving a sand castle into mud and making a child scream and run playfully from the water
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