Historical Framework

A historical framework from, Whale Rider, is the youth and old age. The youth had to listen to the adults. Pai on the other hand, didn't want to engage herself with what the adults said. She wanted to do the stuff she couldn't do. One was she tried sitting in the front row, but boys sit in the front and girls sit in the back. She got kicked out by her grandfather. The second was she retrieved the whale tooth without anyones permission. The last one was she tried the stick fighting. What was holding her back was that she was a girl. She tried so hard to do what the boys would do, but her grandfather wasn't going to let her. Her grandfather wanted to teach Pai what she could learn for girls. The youth were expected to repeat and observe what their elders do. Pai would watch her grandfather and wish she could do exactly what he would. Her grandfather couldn't get out of the past by letting the new generation, such as Pai, to go out and venture in whatever area she felt like learning.