85 pages 2 hours read

Patricia Grace

Potiki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

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Essay Topics

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Money and power are presented as a destructive combination throughout the novel. Explore the ways in which they are destructive, and how these forces are at odds with the Maori people and their values.

2.

Hemi believes in people as one of the keys to survival. How does Grace convey the importance of the concept of people to the survival and preservation of the whanau?

3.

Explore the relationship between the Maori people and the natural world in Potiki.