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The Whale Rider characters ì 105 R a girl But when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe it is Kahu who saves the tribe when she reveals that she has the whale rider's ancient gift of communicating with whal Beautifully written and such vivid imagery I listened to an audio book edition narrated by Jay Laga aia and it was just such a beautiful thing to listen to I was swept up in the story from start to finish

The Whale Rider characters ì 105 Eight year old Kahu a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara New Zealand fights to prove her love her leadership and her destiny Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi the legendary whale rider In every gener 25 I am having a wee moment of picking up New Zealand books that I should have read a long time ago and that have co incidentally been made into films Maurice Gee s In my Fathers Den was my most recent foray and off the back of that I decided to read Witi Ihimaera s novel The Whale Rider Ihimaera has written uite a long list of books and short stories but The Whale Rider is probably his most well known due to the 2002 film of the same name It is a beautiful film I highly recommend it The book I was less enthusiastic about What I did like was the melding of the rational world and the world of maori mythology The opening seuence describing a primordial New Zealand complete with fairies and sentient Tuatara was uite evocative The famous legend of Paikea who travels to NZ on the back of a whale is lovingly interpreted throughout this novel I enjoyed Ihimaera s mythical majestic whales right up until the point they started considering the genetic effects of oceanic radiation from Moruroa atoll which seemed an anthropomorphism too far Putting that issue to one side in general I found the story telling uite ham fisted The characters feel thin and underdeveloped There was the odd decision to have the narrator travel to Sydney and Papua New Guinea for a few chapters The story in my opinion is best when cleaving to that intersection between reality and myth I don t think this book has aged particularly well and might struggle against the nuanced stories YA readers would now come to expect I would love to find NZ authors taking on our own myths and legends and weaving some fictional magic out of them but unfortunately this particular interpretation didn t work for me but it did make an enduringly beautiful film Âm Vị Học Và Tuyến Tính - Suy Nghĩ Về Các Định Đề Của Âm Vị Học Đương Đại year old Kahu a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara New Zealand fights to prove her love her leadership and her destiny Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi the legendary whale rider In every gener 25 I am having a wee moment of picking up New Zealand books that I should have read a long time ago and that have co incidentally been made into films Maurice Gee s In my Fathers Den was my most recent foray and off the back of that I decided to read Witi Ihimaera s novel The Whale Rider Ihimaera has written uite a long list of books and short stories but The Whale Rider is probably his most well known due to the 2002 film of the same name It is a beautiful film I highly recommend it The book I was less enthusiastic about What I did like was the melding of the rational world and the world of maori mythology The opening seuence describing a primordial New Zealand complete with fairies and sentient Tuatara was uite evocative The famous legend of Paikea who travels to NZ on the back of a whale is lovingly interpreted throughout this novel I enjoyed Ihimaera s mythical majestic whales right up until the point they started considering the genetic effects of oceanic radiation from Moruroa atoll which seemed an anthropomorphism too far Putting that issue to one side in general I found the story telling uite ham fisted The characters feel thin and underdeveloped There was the odd decision to have the narrator travel to Sydney and Papua New Guinea for a few chapters The story in my opinion is best when cleaving to that intersection between reality and myth I don t think this book has aged particularly well and might struggle against the nuanced stories YA readers would now come to expect I would love to find NZ authors taking on our own myths and legends and weaving some fictional magic out of them but unfortunately this particular interpretation didn t work for me but it did make an enduringly beautiful film

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The Whale Rider characters ì 105 Ation since Kahutia a male heir has inherited the title of chief But now there is no male heir and the aging chief is desperate to find a successor Kahu is his only great grandchild and Maori tradition has no use fo Also available on the WondrousBooks blog Country New ZealandIn all honesty this was a peculiar little book I both liked it and didn t like it I m saying this in the sense that while I was reading The Whale Rider I wasn t bored out of my mind However at the same time I can t say that I actually enjoyed myselfSo in a way this book just was The story was interesting in its entirety and the fairytale uality of the entire novel There are two stories between which the narration shifts current times and the birth of Kahu a little girl who possesses the spirit of Maori mythology but is not loved by her grandfather who as the chief of the community wants a grandson and is always displeased with little Kahu and the stories from the Maori legends about the whale riders and the pain of a whale which was ridden by the last whale riderAs you can imagine Kahu s story is very endearing and cute and the whales story has of a surreal uality However this would be an oversimplification of how exactly wild this book gets at times It s a wildness in the method and narration rather than one in the actual events but ultimately leads to a very fairytale ish world of collision between myth and realityThis however can also be confusing as I wasn t sure how I m supposed to take the story utter fiction Mythological reality Fairtytale My confusion lead me to that awkward moment which one experiences when they meet someone who seems to be insane and one doesn t know if that person is jokingsarcastic or really mentally unstable In all fairness I m in this situation often than I shouldThe other thing which a story like this heavily influences is the depth of the characters Mythological characters are rarely very deep and well developed so in a book which is unsure about its allegiances with reality expectedly the characters were not really three intentionalLastly while I enjoyed the stories about Kahu I was rather bored with the whale narration and the general repetitiveness of the book Every encounter with Kahu and her grandfather or the two of her grandparents just ended up being the exact same chapter over and over again down to the actual expressionsOn the positive side I learned very interesting things albeit minor ones about the Maori culture and the belief system they have to a degree So while this was not the most successful encounter it was definitely not without virtues