THE WHALE RIDER by Sarah

                On Wednesday, my family and I watched the movie, Whale Rider. I think the movie was a good choice to do my book report on because it is obvious what the beginning, problem,  and solution are. The beginning is when the twin girl gets born and her boy twin and mom dies. The chief of the Maori tribe got disappointed because the boy twin was suppose to be the next chief, but he died. And Pikea, the girl twin survived and she tried to prove that she is the prophet, but her grandfather, the chief doesn't believe she can. 
                When Pikea is sent off because she doesn't move to the back, she doesn't because she belongs there and wanted to learn how to be chief, but her grandfather won't let her.  When the chief is looking for a boy to be chief after him, the girl spies on them and she practices the stuff that they do. When the chief figures out that she is practicing it, he gets really mad because he thinks girls can't be chief.
                On the final test, the chief throws his whale tooth into the ocean for the boys to get and none of them got it, so none of the boys could be chief.  When the girl goes out looking for the whale tooth with her uncle, she finds the tooth and brings it back with a lobster.  The girl is too shy to give the tooth to her grandfrather, so she gives it to the grandma who saves it for the right time to show it to the chief.   He was still in denile. 
                 Until one day, the grandfather finds whales washed up on the beach and he and the tribes people try to keep them wet so they will survive.  All the people from the town help to keep them wet until the tide comes in so the whales can swim back into the ocean. When they all go back in for a rest, Pikea climbs up the barnacles on the biggest whale and starts kicking it so it wakes up and swims away. The girl rides it for a little while until it gets really deep. Then she lets go of it and swims back to shore and ends up in the hospital.  When Pikea is in the  hospital, her grandfather tries to say sorry and believes that Pikea is the prophet.  She is the Whale Rider.
                 In the movie, Whale Rider, the grandfather refused to believe that Pikea could be the prophet, until he found out that she found the special whale tooth.  Then the grandpa who is the chief stopped being mean to her because she is a girl and started to believe that she could be the prophet and future chief.