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Mafatu meets Kivi, an albatross with one defective leg, and saves him from the other birds. He nurses Kivi to recovery, and one day the bird soars off. But he never forgets what Mafatu did for him....
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The answer to this can be found midway through Chapter 4. Mafatu overcomes his fear of the shark out of his love for his dog. Mafatu and Uri are on the raft and Mafatu sees the shark destroy the...
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I assume that you are talking about the end of the book since your second question is about the end. If that is the case, what Mafatu sees that gives him hope is the "lagoon fire." This is the...
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Mafatu is presented as having been fearful ever since his mother died in a hurricane. In particular, he fears the sea, which presents a real problem because his people journey long distances in...
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Mafatu feels that he hasn't proved himself as a warrior. He hates the fact that he's gained a reputation among his people as timid and lacking in courage. It's no consolation to Mafatu that he has...
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Mafatu is a young man who, due to his fear of the ocean, is a shame to his father, the chief of Hikueru island. His fear springs from having watched his mother drown when he was a young child....
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It certainly exists in the story. When Mafatu was only three years old, he and his mother were caught up in a storm off the coast of Hikuru that swept them into the open sea. The canoe eventually...
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In Call it Courage, Kivi the albatross is one of Mafatu's animal companions. He develops a close bond with Mafatu after the young boy saves him from the other albatrosses, who bully Kivi...
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What hurts Mafatu most at the beginning of the story is that people think of him as a coward. In a warrior society such as this one, that's a particularly outrageous insult indeed. The last thing...
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At the beginning of the story, what seems to hurt Mafatu the most is his own debilitating fear of the sea. This fear does not hurt him physically, but it does hurt him psychologically. Describing...
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On the surface, Mafatu chooses to return to Hikueru because he is in grave danger alone on the remote island. The "savages" discover him, and he must run for his life. One might mistake this for...
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When Mafatu’s canoe crashes into the coral reef in chapter 2 of Call It Courage, Mafatu is severely dehydrated and malnourished due to days spent on the ocean. He also sustains an injury on his...
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There really is no correct answer to this question. You have to decide for yourself which of these conflicts was a greater battle for Mafatu in Call It Courage. On the one hand, we can argue the...
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In Call It Courage, Mafatu had a great fear of the sea. The reason is because his mother was killed while out at sea. A hurricane destroyed his mother's boat, and she ultimately died. Mafatu...
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The answer to these questions can be found on p. 13 of Call It Courage. Mafatu’s closest companions were two animals, a dog and an albatross. He made them his friends because they were different,...
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The answer to this is that Kivi is the one who appears when Mafatu is ready to die bravely like Uri. Kivi is an albatross. We find out early in the book (p. 13 in my edition) that Mafatu found...
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Mafatu is the protagonist and primary character in Call it Courage, by Armstrong Perry. Mafatu lives on Hikeuru Island but is afraid of the sea because he saw his mother drown; this causes him to...
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The time setting of "Call it Courage" by Armstrong Sperry is not specific. The reader is told that the story takes place in ancient times, but that is a super broad time frame unfortunately. The...
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The answer to this can be found on page 44 of my copy of Call It Courage. This is relatively early in Chapter 3 while Mafatu is exploring the island on which he has landed. He vows to Maui that...
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The answer to this forms the basis of this entire story. The answer can be found early in the book, on p. 18 in my copy. There, Mafatu makes a vow to himself. If he could win his way to a...
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An omniscient third person narrator tells the story of the young Mafutu. (An ominscient narrator is one who knows the thoughts and motivations of his characters). We know that it is an omniscient...
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When you ask about “problems” in Call It Courage, I assume that you are asking about the conflicts within the story. Every story is built on some sort of conflict that must be resolved. We...
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Mafatu's mother's final action upon finally reaching shore was to reach for a cracked coconut and "to press the cool, sustaining meat to her child's lips before she died". Three-year-old...
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Mafatu overcomes a number of obstacles in the book. He endures the storm by drawing strength from the god Maui, his dog, and the albatross. He "forces himself to do something dreaded"...
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In this chapter he is ready to build his canoe. He has kept his fire going overnight in a cave. He cooks his breakfast in the fire and then starts to look for wood for his canoe.
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Mafatu's name means "Stout Heart". In the Polynesian village of Hikueru where Mafatu lives, the people worship courage. It is with pride that Tavana Nui, the Great Chief of the tribe, christens...
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In Call It Courage, the protagonist, Mafatu, faces many dangers. None of these dangers, however, is really his main antagonist. Even though we are told at the beginning of the book that the sea...
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Mafatu wants to kill the wild boar first of all because he is hungry, and second, because he wants to feel the pride and glory of having killed such a formidable beast all by himself. As Mafatu is...
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In Call It Courage, the people of Hikueru do not literally “drive Mafatu forth.” That is, they do not actively and intentionally force him to leave the island. They do not come after him with...
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The answer to the first part of this question can be found on p. 9 of Call It Courage. The island on which Mafatu and his mother washed up was called Tekoto. This happened when he was only three...
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Mafatu does not have much time to do things for fun on the island, as he has a lot of work to do to ensure his survival and prepare to journey back to his home. He does take the opportunity to do...
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On page 6, the author states that "Mafatu" means "stout heart" in Polynesian. Mafatu's father gave him this name expecting him, as the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, to make him proud with his...
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In Call It Courage, we can see what Mafatu comes to think of all the tasks that he did on Hikueru on page 56. That is the second page of Chapter 4. The answer is that Mafatu comes to be grateful...
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Tavana Nui announced to his people, "Here is my son come home from the sea. Mafatu, Stout Heart. A brave name for a brave boy!" Because of a traumatic experience with the sea when he was...
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The answer to this can be found on the second page of Chapter 5. There, we are told, "But he had to know, he had to know..." Mafatu has been fascinated in a horrible way by the Sacred Place...
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In his fish trap, Mafatu finally finds "three lobsters, blue-green and fat".Mafatu had caught fish in his trap before, but more often than not, his catch had been stolen by a marauding...
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In this chapter, Mafatu eats three things. He eats mangoes, breadfruit, and bananas. At the beginning of the chapter, Mafatu has been washed up on the shore of the island and is very sore and...
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Mafatu finds a spearhead in the Sacred Place. When Mafatu discovers the Sacred Place, he sees "a series of wide stone terraces rising in a pyramid many feet high; on top of this pyramid a...
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Mafatu forms a firm bond of friendship with Kivi, the albatross. He sees something of himself in the bird: a misfit who finds himself isolated from the other birds, bullied by them in much the same...
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Mafutu kills the shark because it was eating the fish he was trying to catch, because he was furious that the trap he had spent hours making was about to be undone, and mostly because it almost...
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Tavana Nui is the Great Chief of the Hikueru, and Mafatu’s father. His silence shames Mafatu, because the boy knows that it signifies his disappointment in his cowardice. Mafatu knows that his...
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To some extent, the answer to this question depends on what you mean by the word “does.” There is one answer if you say that “does” refers only to physical actions and another answer if you say...
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The answer to this question can be found on p. 68 of Call It Courage. There, the author at least implies that Uri will share in the meat of the boar, but he clearly states that Kivi does not eat...
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In Call It Courage, when Mafatu finds the marae, the Sacred Place, on the island, he knows that he has found a forbidden island, or motu tabu. This realization can be found on p. 46 of the book. At...
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We can see the answer to this in Chapter 4 of Call It Courage. In that chapter, Mafatu is excited to find the skeleton of the whale because it will provide him with the raw materials that he needs...
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In Chapter 4 of the book, Mafatu at least causes the death of the shark. He does not necessarily kill it all by himself, but he does have a big part in its death. A few pages before the shark...
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When Mafatu sees the wild boar in the jungle on the island, he recalls when his grandfather killed a boar and made a necklace from the teeth of the animal. The necklace symbolizes his grandfather's...
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Breadfruit is a kind of tropical fruit that grows on a tree. Typically, Americans think of fruit as sweet things like bananas, apples, or oranges. Breadfruit is nothing like this. Instead,...
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When Mafatu first "stir(s) and open(s) his eyes" after landing on the Island, he notices as he "pull(s) himself to a sitting position" that he "is giddy with thirst...
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The first question is false; Mafatu's island does not look like Hikueru. Hikueru, "the only land that (Mafatu has) ever seen, (is) as flat as his hand". The island on which he lands, however, has...