Moana Short Story

The characters of Moana include Moana the heroine of the story who believes she was destined to be a Wayfinder, and the Polynesian demi-god that joins her on her trip is Maui the greatest demigod of all the Pacific Islands, who gave fire, coconuts, and the sun to the pacific islanders. He is even credited to have given the pacific islands themselves to the people. Moana comes from the people of the Motunui Island, in the Pacific. The characters of this Polynesian adventure are based on the South Pacific legend in the Oceanic world, the story of how the Polynesians made it to the Oceania’s Islands. Some say that Moana comes from the islands of Tonga or Samoa. The first Islands were Polynesians were born. The movie starts off on the Polynesian

The ocean vehicle Moana used on her adventure looks like a canoe with an extension of sticks on the side attached to a long piece of wood. The sail is attached to two wooden poles tied with maybe braided fibers. Moana’s canoe looks like the Polynesian outrigger canoe. Also seen in the movie was a boat that looked like Hokulea voyaging canoe. Two canoes attached to a flat piece of wood with two sails. This boat was what Moana’s voyaging ancestors used to sail from different islands and explore the Hawaiian islands. Some of the methods Moana used in the movie to navigate was using the stars or measuring the stars and noticing other signs from the ocean. These skills were actually used in traditional Polynesian migrations, they used the sky and ocean to see where they were going just like Moana did. In the movie, Moana also used an oar or paddle to move across the ocean as well as a sail. If those items can count as navigational methods. Moana is the daughter of the chief Tui, soon she will become the new chief who will take care of her people on Motunui Island. However, the crops are going bad (the coconuts) and the fisherman aren’t catching any fish.

Elements like the navigational skills used by Moana including observing the sky and the ocean. Measuring the stars and the ocean currents to get Te Fiti. These skills were used by the Polynesian ocean-ventures in getting to different Hawaiian islands and elsewhere in the pacific ocean. As well as the structure of Moana’s boat and the boats used by her ancestors resemble similar or even exact structures used by the Polynesians to sail across the sea. Including the Polynesian outrigger canoe and the Hokulea voyaging canoe both which were seen in the movie. If Moana is based on a true story then it could also explain how the Polynesians traveled to the Oceania’s