Task Description: This week me and my reading group : kereruu, read a text called ”Mata I Pusi”. This title is Samoan for “Cat eyes”. Many of you may be wondering what the title of the text technically means, as you probably haven’t read the text like I have. Though There will be a DLO ( digital learning object) at the bottom of this blog explaining what this book is about.
I will still explain the text if you rely more on words instead of pictures and short texts. This book was about a young girl who is half Samoan and Half Palagi. Because of this, she despises her looks and small quirks her Samoan grandmother has – such as curtains over her mirrors. She has said that she feels as though she is a mixed up fruit salad because of her ethnicity and who she is. Though in the end, her good friend Alison – who is also Palagi, tells her that she gets called a carrot head for her vibrant ginger hair and freckle face for her scattered freckles. This then reassures her that all these features simply make up who she is, and there is no need to change her identity in the end.
