In the movie Whale Rider Pai is living with her grandparents. Her grandfather, Pucker dosent like Pai because she is a girl and he wanted her to be born as a boy. Pucker wanted a boy because he wanted to raise him to be the chosen one. Pucker continues his search for the chosen one but dosnot find him so he becomes depressed. Pai prays to the gods and they come. A bunch of whales were stranded on the beach and the entire beach tries to move them back to the ocean. They cant do it so they leave. When the villagers come back they find Pai ridding on the back of a whale in the ocean. Pai's grandmother tells Pai's grandfather that Pai was the chosen one and showd him evidence. Then Pucker was struck with the truth and realized that he needed to be happy about it.