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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Would you regard Maurya as a tragic character? Give reasons for your answer Ans. Maurya‚ as portrayed by I. M. Synge (1871-1909) in ‘Riders to the Sea’ (1904)‚ is truly an unforgettable character who wins our admiration by her unusual power of endurance‚ by her capacity to withstand her misfortunes‚ and by her dignified behaviour at a time when she has suffered the most painful bereavement of her life. She is often compared to Meda and cleopetra. When the play opens‚ Maurya is feeling sorrow-stricken
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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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BEng of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energies Team: Carbon Project Title: The Desalination of Sea Water Using Forms of Renewable Energies Team Members: Cormac Kelly A00164826 Ingmars Landmanis A00165976 Rakan Al Toub Project Supervisor: Eoin Ward Declaration This thesis is a presentation of team Carbons original research work. Wherever contributions of others are involved‚ every effort is made to indicate
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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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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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Dramatic Literacy Devices Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ in which the name of the central character‚ Pilgrim‚ epitomizes the book’s allegorical nature. Kay Boyle’s story "Astronomer’s Wife" and Christina Rossetti’s poem "Up-Hill" both contain allegorical elements. Catastrophe The
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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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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 been
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