Potiki And The Art Of Telling Stories

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Willie P

 

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May 31, 2013

 

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University

 

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This theme is displayed resolutely and poignantly in Potiki's plot, characters, setting and symbolism, as the people of a small rural New Zealand community rediscover themselves through stories spoken and found in Maori carvings. The idea that humans need narratives is the core theme in Potiki, and it is used also to link other themes and aspects of the novel; it is in this way that we know the idea of storytelling is an intrinsic part of the novel's structure...
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The idea that humans need narratives is the core theme in Potiki, and it is used also to link other themes and aspects of the novel; it is in this way that we know the idea of storytelling is an intrinsic part of the novel's structure. The idea that ?creating and sharing stories is important as a central part of being human' is shown in Potiki's plot and characters when the mother of the main family in the book, Roimata, decides to let two of her children learn at home instead of at school...
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