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This film started with Jake being brought to Pandora to be subbed in for his brotherbecause his brother died. They asked him in only because he could still be transformed into anavatar because he has similar traits to his brother and link to it. They have a paradigm on theavatar and are trying to learn more about them because they are fascinated with what they areand also because they have to try and get them to move so they won’t die. Jake is the one thatgot closest to the avatars because he has a self narrative that separate him from the otherhuman avatar people and even has a better self narrative then all of the real avatar people.Even the tree of life (sacred tree) chose him and actually is the reason why he stayed alive anddidn’t get killed by the chief’s daughter. Jake is actually the heroic ethic for both the humansand the natives (avatars). He was chosen by the humans to try and resolve the conflict for themby using colonialism and getting them to trust him and to do as he says so they won’t end updead. As the movie went on he was chosen to be the problem solver for the avatars whenconflict came upon them against the sky people (humans).

This movie has a great master narrative in the life of the avatars. For exampleeverywhere they step in their jungle it lights up under them in color. Even with the exoticanimals they have. Also a great example of this is the tree of life when it chose Jake and alsosaved him because it knew he was somebody special and there’s no other way to explain thetree of life. Even with the way they ride any animal you have to be connected to it so you canbe one with the animal and maneuver it. That’s shows great purpose of life and natureconnecting together. Jake is on the human side but ends up changing side not because he is atrader but because he wanted to chose the side that was doing right and not stay with theanthropocentrism side. There is nothing wrong with anthropocentrism but parker and theCornel where abusing it and pushing it too far. They didn’t care anything about the “bluemonkeys” and were just trying to get the anubtainium from under their home. They didn’t careabout the avatars lives or them beautiful home tree or nothing around it they were going to killthem and destroy anything that stands in their way of their anubtainium. They only cared aboutthemselves and didn’t care if they destroyed someone else’s culture they just felt they haddualism over them and were better privileged then them.

Jake used truncated narratives from his human life style he had from being a marine andtook it with him to the avatar stage and because what he had learned from being a marine as ahuman actually helped him and kept him alive when he was an avatar and also helped himadapt to being a avatar much faster than it would took them scientist that were avatars. Hewas a world-traveler in the avatar stage because he was their letting go of what he was andwas learning and became more of the avatar on the inside then just being an avatar look alike. A perfect example of this was in the end of the movie when the chief’s daughter picked up Jakes body and he looked at her and said I “see” you. What he meant by that is he was more like her and the avatar people on the inside then just looking like one.