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Paikea's Creative Letter in The Whale Rider

            
             Choices are never easy; not for children nor for adults. I am sure you discovered this long ago. As for me, this realisation has crept on me, much like a wave upon the shore. I suddenly found myself facing an integral decision- one that was a bit overwhelming to say the least. I mean, how was I to choose between my father (whom I've dreamt all my life of spending time with and recapturing the lost years of separation) and my grandfather (whom I've dreamed all my life of gaining the approval and love off)? How was I to make up my mind whether to seek a new place where I could devise a new me, or remain settled in the place that seemed to be rejecting me? .
             Did you know that throughout the years of your absence, whenever I felt alone and was missing your presence in my life, I would sit in the carved waka that reminded me of you? I used to feel embraced in its wooden structure pretending to myself that the warmth I was experiencing emanated from your loving sentiments from across the seas. Alone and often afraid, I repeatedly envisioned your rescue. Isn't it ironic though, that when you finally did come to take me out of my misery, I found that I would be significantly more miserable away from this place that had for years made me feel ashamed for trying to be what I know I should be?.
             What is now clear to me and what I am hoping this heartfelt letter to you would clarify, is that alongside the love that I have always felt for you and together with the reliance on your loving image, I have grown equally dependent upon the deep sense of personal satisfaction that I feel whenever I consider the inherited gift that invests me with the responsibility to our people. It is precisely this sense of obligation that has enabled me throughout these years to stand in defiance against all the odds and fight against the preconceived conventions that regularly left me feeling isolated and threatened of being deprived of my loved ones.


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