Whale Rider

          The movie Whale Rider was very interesting.It was also hard to understand certain parts.

I think Pai was not valued in her community and family because she was a girl and her tribe was looking for a new leader that was a boy but her twin brother died. Her grandmother thought it was unfair but her grandfather was still the leader of the tribe. Pucker kicked out Pai because he got in an argument with her father and then he said they had bad luck since she was brought into tha family. Pai's uncle helped her because he felt bad that Pucker left her out of all of the tribes activities. The dying whale symbolizes that there tribe was falling apart. Pucker finally accepted Pai as the new leader because she save the biggest dying whale.Also she took out the whale tooth out of the ocean. The final scene contributes because Pai in the front of the boat singing finally means that she was accepted into their tribe as the leader. Also it means that she was now really a part of them and not just a family member.