The Whale Rider novel’s setting in the author’s note was New York, populated with dull and busy people, was inspired to write the vivid and imaginative setting in the novel, was unanticipated. New York, I believe, has many buildings, and dull and busy people, but, compared to the vivid and imaginative setting in the novel, displays as dispiriting. One reason for the novel’s setting to be vivid is, in view of it illustrating forests to send sweet perfumes upon the eastern winds and garlands of pohutukawa upon the eastern tides. Vivid, from a green rainforest, rippling cloak of many colors, the sky sometimes reflecting the prisms of a rainbow or southern aurora, and, the sea being ever-changing, shimmering, and seamless to the sky; being