For the past week or so, in class, we've been watching the movie Whale Rider. It was a movie about a girl who was treated badly and unappreciated by her community and family. This was because she was a girl; her father's father was the leader of their modern-day tribe and her father was supposed to be the next leader but failed him. Therefore, her father was supposed to have had a boy to be the next leader, but he had a girl instead. Her mother was actually pregnant with twins, one boy and one girl, but her twin brother died while birth and took her mother with him. Pai (the girl) was a big dissapointment for Pucker (her grandfather), he treated her as if she was unimportant to him, as if she left he wouldn't care or be hurt at all. He even kicked her out of their house and she had to stay at her uncle's place, for a little while. Her grandmother had always supported her, she had loved her through everything. Her grandfather did love her but his pride as the modern day tribe leader didn't let him show any of those types of emotion that have to do with love, towards her. It turned out to be that she was destined to be the next leader even through all the circumstances, such as being a girl. At the end of the movie, she was in an enormous boat with many of the modern day tribe members, and her grandfather seemed to be extremely happy with her for accomplishing so much. He was tremendously proud of his granddaughter(:
For more on whales, click the link? :D
http://www.whales.org.za/Default.aspx
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