Characters in The Whale Rider by Witt Alhambra

The Whale Rider by Witt Alhambra has many important themes that are represented by several characters in the text such as Koru Farina, who struggles to put aside traditional values and struggles to input moored values. We have Nanny Flowers who has that everyday struggle with her husband over who gets that last say in what but Nanny Flowers takes peoples feeling into consideration as Koru Farina lacks that quality in him. Koru Farina is old and a very precise man.
He is the type of person that follows the rules and lives out his life without any type of change to his agenda. In this story he has a big head for the old Maori traditions and he likes to keep them in tact. “A girl?. I will have nothing to do with her. She has broken the male line of our decent in our Hannah. AAU”. Koru Farina was not a happy man whilst he had been informed about the birth of Kaka, Koru Farina wasn’t very keen on Kaka. He was always very distant of Kaka and didn’t show a whole lot of affection towards Kaka but Kaka still tried her hardest.
Nanny Flowers has definitely got her winning sides In most of the argument, “He Isn’t any chief, I’m his Chief”. This line Indicates that Koru Apron Isn’t In charge In he house and In fact Nanny flowers Is the boss of him and not the other way around. In majority of the chapters what ever Nanny Flowers says, It goes. “He’s sleeping in the bunkhouse tonight” and that’s what happens. Lets not to say the Nanny flowers wears the pants In their relationship because from what I’ve read most of the time Its Koru Farina.

Nanny flowers Is a strong headed woman and won’t let people change her mind quite that easily and she definitely won’t let Koru Apron do so. Kaka has to overcome Okras resistance when Koru rejects her at the very start of her rite because she Is not a male and so according to the tradition, cannot be the new chief of the tribe. He considers her “of no use to him” and “a disappointment” simply because she Is a female. Despite trying to prove herself to Koru, he refuses to accept her. She has to patiently win his love over time .
Kaka also has to overcome Koru forbidding her to learn the ancient and tribal warrior techniques. She trains In secret and quickly learns faster than the other boys In Corks trailing. Kaka shows, persistence, courage and simple hard work to be better the the rest of the boys that Koru Apron was trailing. By libidinous The Whale Rider by Wit’ Mineral has many important themes that are represented Nanny Flowers has definitely got her winning sides in most of the argument, “He isn’t any chief, I’m his Chief”.
This line indicates that Koru Farina isn’t in charge in the house and in fact Nanny flowers is the boss of him and not the other way around. In majority of the chapters what ever Nanny Flowers says, it goes. “He’s sleeping in wears the pants in their relationship because from what eve read most of the time its Koru Farina. Nanny flowers is a strong headed woman and won’t let people change her mind quite that easily and she definitely won’t let Koru Farina do so.
Kaka has to overcome Cork’s resistance when Koru rejects her at the very start of her birth because she is not a male and so according to the tradition, cannot be the new because she is a female. Despite trying to prove herself to Koru, he refuses to accept forbidding her to learn the ancient and tribal warrior techniques. She trains in secret and quickly learns faster than the other boys in Cork’s training. Kaka shows, Koru Farina was training.