Whale Ride Analysis

Whale Ride is a significant movie because through Paikea fixing Koro’s motor, winning the speech contest, and helping the beached whale to escape, it helps to show that the old, traditional way of things is not necessarily the right way of things. When Paikea and Koro are on the beach trying to fix the motor of their motorboat, we see Koro try to use a stick to jump start it with a rope. The rope breaks. But then when Paikea tries to start the motor, she takes the broken rope, tries it back together, and is able to start the motor. In the tribe, Paikea as a girl shouldn't have been allowed to help work on dangerous tasks like fixing a broken motor. Yet despite that fact she was the one to tie together the broken rope and make the motor work again, showing that just because she was a girl didn’t mean she couldn't help out on dangerous …show more content…
However, Paikea did become the chief of the tribe. She did bring things back to the ways they used to be when she was able to bring her father home, have the waka finished, and make Hemi be proud to be in his tribe again. Therefore since this wouldn’t be possible with the old way of things around, it shows that the old was of things aren’t always the right way of things. Finally when Paikea was able to help the beached whale to escape, it shows again that the old way of things aren’t have the right way of things. Paikea helped the whale off the beach by climbing on the whale’s back and helped motivate him to get up and move. Only the chief, the whale rider, could do this. So therefore Paikea was a chief and whale rider. But this broke the old ways of things, it shows that according to the old way of things she shouldn’t be able to do this. So it shows again for one last time that the old way of things in the tribe aren't the right way of things because she is able to help the beached whale and become the chief of her