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Porourangi is Rawiri’s older brother, Kahu’s father, and the next person in line to be the chief of Whangara, after his grandfather Koro Apirana (who is busy training him for the job throughout the novel). Honest, responsible, and family oriented, Porourangi takes his duties as future chief very seriously and wants nothing more than to resolve his family conflicts and help Maori people thrive across New Zealand. He is married to Rehua at the beginning of the novel. After she dies, he eventually remarries Ana and has a second daughter, Putiputi.
Porourangi Quotes in The Whale Rider
The The Whale Rider quotes below are all either spoken by Porourangi or refer to Porourangi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Autumn: Chapter 11
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“Will we be ready?” he asked. “Will we have prepared the people to cope with the new challenges and the new technology? And will they still be Maori?” I could tell that the last question was weighing heavily on his mind. In this respect we both recognized that the answer lay in Koro Apirana’s persistence with the school sessions, for he was one of the very few who could pass on the sacred knowledge. Our Koro was like an old whale stranded in an alien present, but that was how it was supposed to be, because he also had his role in the pattern of things, in the tides of the future.
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Porourangi Quotes in The Whale Rider
The The Whale Rider quotes below are all either spoken by Porourangi or refer to Porourangi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Autumn: Chapter 11
Quotes
“Will we be ready?” he asked. “Will we have prepared the people to cope with the new challenges and the new technology? And will they still be Maori?” I could tell that the last question was weighing heavily on his mind. In this respect we both recognized that the answer lay in Koro Apirana’s persistence with the school sessions, for he was one of the very few who could pass on the sacred knowledge. Our Koro was like an old whale stranded in an alien present, but that was how it was supposed to be, because he also had his role in the pattern of things, in the tides of the future.
Related Characters:
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