The world is at war. Genocide is committed and people live in fear that their homes and lives will be taken. An individual destined to protect and save the world from turmoil is nowhere to be found. The world suffers from the wrath of a cruel leader for a hundred years until the prophesized protector is found. This leader, a twelve year old boy named Aang is the main protagonist of the television program Avatar: The Last Airbender. In the show, Aang and his friends go on a journey to train Aang in all four elements in order to defeat the ruthless Fire Lord Ozai. Although there are fun, light-hearted moments during their adventure, the journey is far from easy and Aang’s life is always threatened. As I fell in love with the show, I learned valuable …show more content…
lessons that I apply in my life as I embarked on the extraordinary journey with Aang and his team. Being the Avatar, the master of all elements, entails being a leader who keeps the peace between the Air Nomads, the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, and the Fire Nation.
The Avatar’s spirit is randomly reincarnated into any person from the next nation in the Avatar Cycle. Therefore, when Aang, who is just a child, is granted the huge responsibility of protecting the world during a time of war, he decides to run away. Ultimately, Aang is caught in a storm while running away and is frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years. Aang’s fear and rejection of the role of Avatar is understandable; this role carries a large burden of expectations from the people who have been waiting for the Avatar to help them. Similarly, growing up, I had to deal with the different expectations others pushed onto me. Whether it is my parents wanting me to be an archetype of the perfect child or people who I thought were my friends expecting my to be a carbon copy of them, expectations were and continue to be a large weight hanging over my being. Although he ran initially, when Aang is found in the iceberg, he takes his responsibility as Avatar head on. Aang’s experience allowed me to realize that I can develop as my own person and write my own destiny despite the overwhelming expectations surrounding …show more content…
me. In addition, Toph, a rebellious young girl who leaves her sheltered life to become Aang’s earthbending instructor, is an influential character.
Because she is blind, her parents and others perceive Toph to be weak. Moreover, since she is from a family of nobility, Toph’s parents expect her to be quiet, proper, and “ladylike”. In contrast, Toph is actually outspoken and bold and a talented earthbender. When I was younger, I was sometimes reclusive and hesitant to express myself. Furthermore, in middle school I was teased and bullied so my inability to speak up for myself made this experience long and agonizing. Watching Toph be confident and strong encouraged me to become self-assured. After a period of insecurity and uncertainty in myself, I am now like Toph: a strong willed and vocal girl who is not afraid to be
tough. In the beginning of the series, Zuko, Fire Lord Ozai’s banished son, is the antagonist on a pursuit to find and capture the long lost Avatar. Besides the glory Zuko will receive from the Fire Nation for capturing this threat, Zuko truly undertakes this role as a type of bounty hunter to prove his worth to a father that views him as a failure. After a siege on the Northern Water Tribe carried out by a Fire Nation militant during which various injurious and consequential actions take place, Zuko and his uncle become targets when they resist the Fire Nation militant’s orders. Eventually, Zuko decides to join Aang’s team which is met with apprehension at first. Subsequently, Zuko becomes a vital member of “Team Avatar” who makes sacrifices to protect and guide Aang. Zuko choosing to fight for good with Aang and to oppose the man whose love he always longed for taught me that people have the ability to change. Thus, I cannot be quick to judge someone because I do not know what their circumstances are and I realize that people will change and mature at their own pace. Avatar: the Last Airbender is a beautifully animated and well-written show that has had the most impact on my life. For instance, the characters all come to life in each episode. Additionally, the story of a lone survivor and underdog tasked with saving a war-torn world is intriguing. This series fueled the imagination that I kindled as a child and such imagination continues to burn and grow in my life. Furthermore, Avatar: the Last Airbender revealed a passion and inspiration that I want to instill in others. Avatar: the Last Airbender symbolizes persistence and hope and Aang and his friends’ struggles and experiences will forever be intertwined in my own.
To conclude, there are clearly many ways in which the events of chapter 12 and the movie “Avatar” resemble each other. Not only are there numerous examples of similarities, but there are also numerous examples of differences as well. For instance, the whites tried to remove the Native Americans from their homelands, and the humans tried to remove the Na’vi from their homelands. Although, the whites succeeded, whereas the humans did not. In addition, many people died in both cases, however, in different ways.
Courage is not simply about how well you deal with fear, how many noble deeds you accomplish, or how you overcome life threatening situations. Courage is the practice of determination and perseverance. Something like, an unwillingness to abandon a dream even when the pressures of society weigh down on your shoulders; society will make you feel tired, humiliated, broken, and confused. Actually, it can be effortlessly said that daily courage is more significant than bouts of great deeds. Since everybody undergoes demanding circumstances on a daily basis, and most of us will not be called to perform a great deed, courage comes from those daily struggles and successes. However, Kate Bornstein is one person who has been able to transform her everyday life into a brilliant deed of courage. She threw herself into an unknown abyss to discover truth that many others would never dare tread. Ingeniously combining criticism of socially defined boundaries, an intense sense of language, and a candid autobiography, Bornstein is able to change cultural attitudes about gender, insisting that it is a social construct rather than a regular occurrence, through here courageous writing.
The fourteen-year-old girl is a round and dynamic character with great depth. The round characteristics are seen within her broad and complex emotions. She has developed an aggressive temperament in response to abuse from her Apa and teasing from her sisters who call her “bull hands”, laughing at her masculine features. This temperament has led her to state: ”I began keeping a piece of jagged brick in my sock to bash my sisters or anyone who called me bull hands.” (Bausch) Her temper...
The American science fiction film ‘Avatar’, directed by James Cameron is about Jake Sully, a paralysed former marine who becomes an avatar to take his place on a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There, he meets the Na’vi people and gets attached to living in harmony with nature, where he must save their land when being attacked by humans. The story line of Avatar follows closely with ‘The Hero’s Journey’ which focuses on how the main character is experiencing a change from his ordinary world, turning into an avatar to explore a new world. Primarily, Avatar captures a call to adventure to begin the hero’s journey. The film also explores a new approach with crossing the first threshold of the hero’s joinery which is conveyed through a range of cinematic techniques. Furthermore, Sully experiences a major ordeal followed by a reward shown in a variety of dramatic shots.
Summary of your materials: The Avatar: The Last Airbender, created by Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko is an American animated television series.It is about the four nations: the Water Tribe, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. Each nation can bend their own element which means that they can control over it. Then, there is the Avatar who can control all four elements. The main character, Aang who is the current Avatar runs away as a child and get himself trapped in an iceberg under water. During this time, the Fire Nation takes over and starts a war. Aang has to stop the war, however, he hasn’t mastered all four elements yet. The series goes from Aang mastering each element to defeating the war.
Set on the planet Pandora, Avatar is a science-fiction story of a money-hungry corporation’s attempt to conquer and excavate the land of humanoids known as Na’Vi. Jake Sully is a paraplegic, who is sent to space to complete his deceased brother’s mission because they share the same genome, which is necessary to navigate the expensive avatar that had already been cloned. We learn that the avatar is basically a mind-transporter used to be a part of and learn about the Na’Vi community. During his first expedition in the land of the Na’Vi, Jake gets lost and encounters one of the main female members of the tribe who ends up taking him under her wing and teaches him the ways of a Omaticaya. From here, the movie continues to tell the story of Jake’s dilemma between the mission he started with his people and the allegiance he slowly pledged to the Omaticaya clan. After watching Avatar the day it came out in theaters, I easily decided that it was one of the most extraordinary movies I had ever seen. My opinion may seem invalid coming from an uncultured fourteen-year-old, but even after having recently re-watched the film, I feel this movie and its social commentary are remarkable. There were many aspects to this movie, some controversial, that made the movie exceptional: its new-aged cinematography, disputable portrayal of the indigenous peoples, oddly familiar plotline, and mostly its critique on colonization and civilization. After having watched Avatar for the sixth time, I have come to the conclusion that this film much more intricate than its critics and supporters acknowledge. There are multiple parallels between imperialism and...
Avatar the motion picture throws you into a rich world, with diverse characters who clash over cultural and socio-economic issues. At the heart of the story is a former Marine named Jake Sully, who falls in love while on an alien planet with a woman from a race of people called the Na’vi. The character whom he falls in love with is an alien for which he sacrifices his whole way of life to be with. By way of his experiences with the Na’vi, he begins to adopt a new worldview, which can only be described as Pantheism.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien, is the first book in the fantasy-based trilogy of the Lord of the Rings. The book begins with Bilbo Baggins celebrating his one hundred and eleventh birthday. After his party, he then decides to leave everything behind and join a Fellowship, which has a task of destroying the ruling ring, which will give supreme power to whoever has possession of it.
Na’vi and they worship the deity Eywa, Eywa keeps the Ecosystem balanced. Avatar focuses around Jake Sully who has taken the place of his brother, in the Avatar program, which is lead by Scientist who explore Pangora by using a body of a hybrid of a Na’vi and Human as if it were his or her own, this helps them to carry
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is the third book in the trilogy of J. K. Rowlings other Harry Potter books, though she is coming out with four more books in the coming years.
It is likely for one to assume that a classic piece of literature set in a fantasy oriented stage will have no merits to the youths of today. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, however, with its crafty of usage symbolism, displays its relevance to issues that often trouble teens. As the story progresses from a children’s tale to an epic, the main character Bilbo undergoes a series of development, his experiences often overlapping with ordinary people. Reading the Hobbit will provide teens with opportunities of exploring the importance of several common but serious topics. People may encounter many of the themes presented in the book elsewhere repeatedly, but it’s possible that they never appreciated the applications it might have on themselves. When teens read the Hobbit, they perceive it as a simple fiction of adventure. Under proper guiding, they will be able to recognize and utilize the lessons of the Hobbit, and improve their attitudes and ideas about life.
focuses on the “key to Baba’s heart.” These insecurities about never being good enough for his
J.R.R. Tolkien's concept of too much power is summed up by Lord Acton when he once said, "Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely." In Tolkien's first book of his fantasy based trilogy, Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Rings tells a story of a quest to destroy a powerful ring throughout Tolkien's created "Middle Earth". This quest was headed by a "Hobbit" named Frodo Baggins who, in the end, becomes corrupted by power himself. This corruption begins when Frodo uses his ring to become invisible over and over again to escape certain situations. The quest to destroy the powerful "Ruling Ring" forms the basis for this story.
In the anime, Attack on Titan, the director is able to create and blend different master plots: vengeance by visual editing that places flashbacks at important moments inside the story and camera angles; hero’s quest by visual cuts and transitions from different character points of view; underdog by changing camera angles. Finally, but not least temptation through the use of sound editing with actions scenery and coloring. Narrative elements used by the director inside a film can change the master plot at any critical moment inside a story, elaborating a different story that can vary depending on our way of interpreting and analyzing the world around us. The director may have a general message that he wants to convey through narrative elements as it was previously stated, but we as the audience have the last word in what the film represents even though we obtain the main idea through the manipulation of the narrative elements used by the director.
The movie Avatar looks like a movie about war, but rather it is a movie about being human and what it means to be a human. And the message the in this movie I feel is to be in touch with your environment and world.