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S'està carregant… Kura Toa: Warrior School (edició 2004)de Tim Tipene
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. When Haki's hurt in a drunken car crash, an old man steals the necklace his grandmother gave him. Later he returns to get her necklace back, but instead finds himself listening to the man's advice on becoming a warrior and defeating a taniwha. This book was really quite unrelentingly miserable. His friends bully him, his teachers don't notice the bullying, his home is abusive. In context of course this all works. The story portrays excellently the racist microaggressions Haki faces every day. My major problem was that his mother is presented as a woman obsessed about her career at the expense of being a good mother. She is furious that his accident interrupted her meeting. At first she seems to be complicit in the physical abuse his father dishes out; later we discover that she is emotionally abusing the father to make him do it. She has forbidden the entire family from having any contact with the father's mother. She no longer even makes her banana cakes like she used to. Talking about it with a friend, I remembered that the other villain of the piece, a man, was also presented as villainous for the same obsession with individualism and financial success. So the author, I'm sure, never intended this to be about how having a career makes a woman a bad mother -- but the trope is still there. If only the gender of both villains had been swapped... Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
High-school student Haki needs to find the pounamu (a stone of great value to Maori people, often handed down over generations) that was stolen from him after a car crash by a mysterious old man who seems to know a lot about him. Haki's search brings him into conflict with his family, his friends and his school. In the process he must confront his fears and find a way to answer the challenge to serve his people and his land, fight a taniwha (a powerful spirit being in Maori culture), and grow into a warrior. Kura Toa: Warrior School is a perennial reader for junior classes in high schools and has just been adapted for the stage by Bay of Islands College, Northland. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.3Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Elizabethan 1558-1625ValoracióMitjana:
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“Your heart is your taiaha, your head is your patu. These are the weapons with which to strike down a taniwha.”
A simple and short story that follows Haki as he, with guidance from a Māori elder, explores his connection to the land and his role as a kaitiaki of Papatūānuku. The taniwha is a stereotypical white developer who is desecrating tapu land. There were a couple of wonderfully powerful moments as Haki channels the strength of his iwi's tīpuna. I think it is incredibly important that we have more uplifting stories, like this one, where young Māori are exploring their cultural traditions and values. Inā rawa! ( )