Kaha

I am learning to analyse character in a short story, giving evidence from the text to support my judgments.

Kaha

The story Kaha by Linda Chatterton, the character that interested me Kaha. He interested me because he did lots things like pick on a cow cocky etc. He helped himself to anything he wanted, like he caught ells from the river and nobody stopped him. He also invited himself into the narrater house and made him self at home. He didn’t care what would happen to him like when he caught ells he didn’t know what could of been in the water.

Kaha was imitating because he was mean-looking because he was big, brawny and had evil eyes. He pick on a cow cocky which got him kicked out of a bar. It said he was a bit of a stirrer and if he didn’t like you run like hell, so he sort of imitates whoever he doesn’t like. He picked fights with people one time one person threaten to shoot him, said ”there was no room for his sort around here”. So you could see that he was freaking people out.

He was careless because he catches ells and ate to many of them once and threw up on the kitchen floor and the next day he went back and ate some more, so he didn’t care what happened to him and he didn’t stop eating ells. He got into fights a lot, he got batted and bruised. Everybody hated Kaha because was a bit of stirrer, he didn’t care if they liked him or not and he did not care what people thought of him.

Kaha was a really good listener because he listened to his about when he was younger. He would talk about things like when they collected toheroas and cooked them on the fire in tin. They gathered firewood from the mudflats and fruit from the wild fig trees and about how they used to watch the barges carting sand up the harbor and fishing boats coming with there hauls. “He knew my life history. The I didn’t even know were he came from.”

He was loyal to the narrater because he stuck by the him for 6 years. He was able to say at his house because he, helped him around the farm. He followed him around and he made himself comfortable in the house and ended up staying there for 6 years, that is really loyal. “They say a dog is a man’s best friend and they’re right.

Linda Chatterton used words to make the dog sound like a human because it did things that a human would do. Her writing was very creative in her writing to make it like that.

BradleyB Rm29