Rough riders

Unexpected Leadership The movie Whale Rider questions customs, culture, and leadership. The story revolves around Koro, the chief of the Maori people. He searches for a suitable new leader who has characteristics necessary to uphold a culture. Someone strong. Someone dedicated to their culture. Someone who perseveres through hardships. And, fundamentally, someone who is a boy. Nobody succeeds in winning Koro’s acceptance except Pikea, his granddaughter, who fits almost all these characteristics.

The main character of Stormbreaker is Alex Rider. In the book he plays the role of a young teenage spy in training, Alex has the build of a professional athlete, he is great at fighting back and finding a way out of situations. Alex has the personality traits of a normal boy even though he is not. He also thinks like a professional spy being observant and observing the differences that surround him. In the story, a few important interactions between Alex and other characters are. When during

even in the worst times. Sometimes you are faced with a challenge that makes you wanna give up and stop trying but, you should never give up, even at the worst time. The novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz, is about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider which becomes a spy at 14 after his Uncle died and his first mission is to find information about Sayle Enterprises, owned by Herod Sayle, and why they are going to donate hundreds of computers to england. In this mission, Alex is able to enter the

In the mid 20th century intriguing drama directed by Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, we were drawn back to 1969 to shed light on the influences of drugs, sex, and culture as the characters began to question the American system in this counterculture movement. The counterculture movement provoked an alternative lifestyle that came about during the Vietnam War. The tensions following the protests of human inequalities embodying racial segregation and the frustration faced with the draft system resulted

the complex character I chose was Alex Rider. This is because throughout the story, he does many intriguing, engaging, and critical actions. This is what makes him my complex character. Over the course of the story, Alex learns how to deal with and cope with people trying to kill him. Analytically and effectively, he interacts with the characters in different ways as the story goes on when he learns the good and bad people. The novel starts off with Alex Rider in a hospital recovering from an assassination

Whale Rider Essay ‘Whale Rider’ directed by Nicki Caro has won many awards such as Critic’s Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film. The award-winning film explores the many privileges, obligations and duties of the leaders and potential leaders in protagonist Pai’s Maori community. Caro does this through characterisations of Pai, and her supporting characters, such as Koro, her grandfather. He believes that his duty was to establish

The movie Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro, have many things in common with the book Nervous Conditions, written in 2002 by Tsitsi Dangarembga. These two share many common themes such as sexism, discrimination, and loss. The two main characters of each story share one major characteristic in common. Paikea from Whale rider, and Tambo from Nervous Conditions, both disrupt the sociological and cultural norms in their respective communities and challenge a greater authority, who is a part of their

Analysis of Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider The movie “Easy Rider” revolves around two bikers making a trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans, to attend Mardi Gras. The first scene in the film involves the two main characters selling a good amount of cocaine to a man in Rolls Royce. After the drug deal the bikers begin their journey to Mardi Gras, but not before one of them removes his watch and throws it on the ground. I found this indicative of his pursuit of freedom, because time serves only to constrain

To me, this quote, "We read to know we're not alone", has two meanings; that is we read to immerse ourselves in different universes and situations. We connect to other characters or experiences we never get in our universe. Another meaning is we read to feel the we, the reader, is not alone. For example, if I say "I hate my life", I read and find out that there are other people who have the same problem or in even worse situation than I am. I have read two books who are totally different to each

Caro's focus on the pre-adolescent female protagonist in Whale Rider creates a parallel between the personal development of the individual and that of the ancient Maori culture in modern society. The Whangara people are portrayed as “a community frozen in time, waiting to be saved” (Hokowhitu 58) as they believe that their existence is reliant purely on a brave prophet, Paikea, who rode on the back of a whale to escape death. Whangara chiefs trust that each first born male has the potential to be