Essays on Whale Rider

An anonymous person once said, “If you know the journey beforehand, you’d learn nothing along the way”. Joseph Campbell believed there are three major stages that you go through during a hero’s journey. To start you go through a separation, from your world where you’re used to everything. Next, during this stage, you transition to the new world where you face many challenges. Finally, you return to the world you are used to and then you give a gift. Whale…...

Chapter 1 begins in myth, and myths explain what was once unexplainable to a people. What does the myth of the whale rider explain to the Maori people? 2. Chapter 2 gives us the point of view of the whales. The bull whale remembers his master, the “golden man. ”  Do you think that the whale is as old as the myth, or do you think that the whale draws on the collective memory of his culture? Or, do you…...