However, Keoki, waiting to be ordained a Christian minister, rejects this, creating discord within his family. Incest is believed to maintain a pure royal bloodline, and Keoki is expected to marry his sister, Noelani, who will one day become the Ali'i Nui.
Worse, Keoki's father, Kelolo, is both the husband and biological brother of Keoki's mother Malama Kanakoa, the Aliʻi Nui (ruler) whom the natives consider a "sacred person". Half-naked girls have sex with sailors, and the natives worship Hawaiian idols. The missionaries are shocked by what is considered the islanders' sinful ways.
Jerusha is in love with Captain Rafer Hoxworth, a whaler away at sea who has apparently forgotten her.Ībner and Jerusha marry and go to Lahaina, Maui, where Keoki is reunited with his parents and sister. Thorn introduces him to his young niece, Jerusha Bromley. Newly ordained minister Reverend Abner Hale is among those who volunteer, but all missionaries must be married. In 1819, Prince Keoki Kanakoa appeals to the Yale Divinity School to bring Christianity to the Islands of Hawaii. ( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. It is an enlightening yet troublesome film which depicts the hardships of both cultures in the early part of the 1800's, and the evolution of love over the life span of the Reverend Hale and his wife Jerusha.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Julie Andrews who plays the Reverend's wife is expected to bear him children, teach the natives the good book and the way of the Americans, whilst she struggles with letting go of a young and virile love (Richard Harris) who broke her young heart before she was formally introduced to the Reverend Hale by her father. The year 1818 was a century and period with many hardships for all mankind and the Reverend Abner Hale believes that he alone is the answer to the savages of the island of Hawaii to bring them into the advances made in the 19th century by first building a church and home for his own growing family. The film reflects how different the two cultures are and how rigid Reverend Abner Hale is in both his religious and culture beliefs whereas the native Hawaiians are at least open to understanding the very different culture that the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha have introduced to their every day lives. The film's cinematography is exceptional and this film depicts the obvious and expected clash between a New England missionary Reverend Abner Hale (Max von Sydow) who takes his new bride Jerusha (Julie Andrews) to the exotic island of Hawaii in the year of 1818, in an effort to convert the natives.
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