Whale Talk Analysis

Niki Caro’s film, Whale Rider, beautifully captures the small village of Whangara, which is located in the northeast of New Zealand’s North Island. The film portrays a Maori tribe that tells the story of a long-held tradition. This film is rich in symbolism, which is easy for any viewer to understand. Whale Rider does a wonderful job of capturing the attention of the audience because of the intense and close relationships between the characters, the way Caro conveys the movie’s message, and the features the movie offers.

The short story “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod is narrated by a man who comes from a fishing family. His mother’s side of the family has forever lived and worked by the sea and continues this tradition. The narrator’s father always wanted to be an academic, but worked on the boat to support his family. Through this passage it is evident that the parents’ characters clash in many aspects of their lives and are in constant conflict. MacLeod demonstrates this through the use of repetition, the contrast in other unrelated ideas, and through information that is withheld.

In the film “Whale Rider”, we explore the traditions of the Maori tribe located in New Zealand. This tribe holds their traditions very high and only direct descendants of the Whale Rider himself can become the chief of the tribe. The main character in the film is a twelve-year-old girl named Paikea. Her twin brother died during childbirth, leaving Paikea as the only child. Because Paikea is a girl, she cannot be the leader of the tribe. Since there is no one in his family to become the next leader of the tribe, Paikea’s grandfather, Koro, is very upset about the death of his only male grandchild and becomes worried about the tribe’s future after he is gone. Paikea is caught in the middle of this and desperately wants to be included in the

The relationship between father and son changes over time, and molds along with the people in encapsulates. As in real life, the father and son who inhabit Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story” experience sudden changes within their relationship as the time passes on. The son’s cries for a story that slowly change into adult conversations throughout the poem indicate that with maturity and age comes both understanding and hostility.

Few relationships are as deep as those between child and parent. While circumstance and biology can shape the exact nature of the bond, a child’s caretaker is the first to introduce them to the world. And as they grow and begin to branch out, children look to their parents as a model for how to interact with the various new situations. Through allusion, potent imagery, and nostalgic diction, Natasha Trethewey constructs an idolized image of a father guiding their child through life’s challenges only to convey the speaker’s despair when they are faced with their father’s mortality in “Mythmaker.”

In the book Whale Talk the characters T.J. and Rich Marshall both went through a rough childhood each getting abused in different ways, T.J. verbally by his mother and Rich physically and verbally abused by his father. With Rich being abused by his father it hit him hard in his adult years ,because of this abuse he also became abusive and started being very disrespectful to his wife and his daughter. When growing up his dad was racist so it came natural to him to not like his step daughter Heidi also being from a black man added on to the list. T.J. on the other side is affected by the abuse when someone makes him angry, in chapter 11 T.J. attempts to fight Mike Barbor because of a situation that happened with him and one of Carly's friends.

Throughout the two short fictions, “Son of the Wolfman” by Michael Chabon and “The Red Bow” by George Saunders, we discover and more or less travel through tragedies in the main characters’ lives with them. Both tragedies about children, but contrasting in that one results in the death of a child, while the other is a birth. There are many internal and external conflicts within both stories in which they share multiple comparisons and contrasts. Many of these conflicts made me develop judgments about both characters and the choices they made throughout the fiction. While reading, I developed many perceptions about each character and each story; some with which could be obvious and some that have a more personal origin.

“Around 195 Orcas have died in captivity, in addition to 30 miscarried or still-born whale calves. SeaWorld is a major role in Orca endangerment, holding 23 Orcas across their five parks in the United States: Florida, California, Texas, Virginia, and Pennsylvania”(“The Fate of Captive Orcas.” WDC). SeaWorld’s distinctive entertainment is detrimental to the health of Orcas; bringing stress, frustration, and aggression. Most guests of SeaWorld do not realize the animal abuse that exists in this chain of “marine mammal parks, oceanariums, animal theme parks, and rehabilitation centers owned by SeaWorld Entertainment”

The stories this storyteller told had many kings and other typical characters you’d meet in stories that are meant for children. Nevertheless even adults could find there many things to learn about life, wisdom and ethical problems.

The Blue Whale is a live jazz venue and art space in Downtown Los Angeles within the Little Tokyo neighborhood. It is now hosting Steve Coleman & Five Elements. Every night in December, Steve and his band is performing and running intensive workshops for musicians. The performance on Saturday, December 5, 2015, was memorable. It featured Steve Coleman on the alto sax, Jonathan Finlayson playing the trumpet, Maria Grand on the tenor sax, Miles Okazaki on the guitar, Anthony Tidd on the bass, and Sean Rickman on the drums. The concert was an exemplary example of postmodern progressive jazz. The performance featured characteristics from the bebop, hard bop, and cool jazz movements while maintaining its individuality and West African roots.

Do you want to know what the life of a killer whale is like? Well, if you do, here is your answer. Read this research paper and learn about the killer whale, also called orca.

Whales are mammals of the open ocean that socialize and travel in groups called “pods.” They communicate and socialize with each other through various types of languages. My goal is to explain communication between whales by giving you an overview of; noises that whales make to communicate and socialize with each other, non-verbal cues between whales, and a distinct sound that allows them to see. Whales rely on sounds to determine the needs for their survival.

Over the past semester, I have learned many new life lessons. Some of them over race and others over little things. All of them have taught me a valuable lesson. That lesson is that always treat someone with respect because you don’t know what they have been through. Don’t just judge someone because of how they look. Never believe someone is below you because of their race.

Researchers often point to the how Humpback whale singers are continuously evolving their songs yet easily conform and adapt to the singing of other whales (Rendalla 2001: 312). Furthermore, research has found that the songs of humpback whales not can vary by geography and evolve over time, but that underlying units of songs can be persistent over the years (Abbott 2010: 2902).Humpback whales peak time for song production is during the months of January and February. This timing overlaps with the peak breeding season. Additionally, the study found that The song included about 60 percent song units that were frequent while 40 percent song units that varied across the years. (Magnusdottir

They move by swinging their tails. Though they are heavy , they move quickly. In winter , they will swim from the Arctic Ocean to the South Pacific . In South worm sea area, whale mother gives birth to whale baby. Then in summer, they will return their home.