The Crowning Of Fiji Research Paper

Kashonna PooleMrs.CauseyEnglish IV10 April 2015 The Crowning of FijiFiji was a strong nation, while and peaceful, that is until Great Britain came to reign. Fiji began as a land of the mixed descendants of Polynesian and Melanesian, and was true to their ethnic background. Fiji was already found by a Dutch explorer but Europeans came and took actions into colonizing Fiji and changing their way of life. After years under the reign of Britain, Fiji began to take their independence back and revert to their natural ways and breaking free from Britain. Fiji was a land of peace and religion until Great Britain have governed the traditional ways of Fiji by shifting the way

This tension would become a hallmark of Fijian politics. (The Global Road Warrior)The people living in Fiji began to expand and with the expansion of Indo-Fijians, the power of their needs became more known and undeniable. The Europeans were beginning to have more competition as well as the native Fijians. Britain did not directly rule Fiji; they were being shielded by Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon from European colonization exploitation (Britannica Encyclopedia). Britain was ruling over Fiji, but they never were the official ruler because of the actions of Sir Gordon took to prevent them falling under Britain. The Whales Tooth by Jack London is a story about a missionary trip to deliver the whale's tooth to the leader across the mountains, where no one dared to go. John Starhurst labored in Fiji for three years and never made a profit. Starhurst was very religious, which ties into the way Fijians really were back then, he was a missionary who wanted to carry the gospel from one coast to another. Fiji was the largest island amongst the other islands in the area. Fiji had many missionaries, traders, fishers, deserters and more. The chiefs in Fiji were cannibals, they were believed to have eaten at least hundreds of

As we must remember, john was a known for his religion, humbleness and being practical, according to his religion. Which was the opposite of how the man thought. He tried to explain to the man that God has created the land they live in and it took six days and as to why this tooth should be cherished, because of the works of God. The man refused that only one man can possibly make the world, everything they lived in, in simply six days. That there was no way and that the simplest of things on this earth would have at the least have taken three months. Believing that his whale tooth was to bring hope and great wishes to the next person, John did not give the tooth the man if he could believe in the greatest things, that it wasn’t for him. John continued to travel until he reached the other coast, where the Kai-Kai lived. As he reached the territory of the Kai-Kai and announced the whale tooth, the villagers wanted the whale tooth and at any cost. The leader of the wanted the whale tooth and was going to kill him to get him. The chief puts him over a ledge of hungry cannibals until John begged for his life, crying about how he did nothing wrong and shall live. The tooth would belong to the mountain dwellers, and would in the future “cure” the