... accepts that her "donations" and shortened life are inevitable. On the contrary, some other people believe that fate can be changed. In the movie Whale Rider, based on a novel of the same name written by Witi Ihimaera, the main character Pai lives in a patriarchal society where she is forbidden from ... her fate and accepts what is eventually going to happen to her because she is unaware of her life being any different. In Never Let Me Go, Whale Rider, and The Catcher in the Rye, the the transition from adolescence into adulthood plays a vital role in the establishment of each of the prot...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... journey of self-knowledge. His previous actions, that of a peacock, shows that his vanity is one of the main things that holds him down, as Morrison writes, "Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down" (179 ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School