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Neytiri teaching Jake about Eywa

For our final film of the class, we watched Avatar. While watching we were told to carefully watch the different roles the women had in the film with nature. The character I focused mainly on was the main character Neytiri.

Neytiri is the daughter of the rulers of the avatar kingdom. She plays a major role by teaching Jake Sully who is a 'sky person' learn the ways of being a real avatar. She is clearly one of the nature since she easily navigates and protects herself and others. It is evident that she loves the earth especially when she first meets up with Jake when he was being attacked and she saved him by killing the creatures that were going after him. She is upset when she has to kill the creatures and gets mad at Jake. Everytime she kills another living creature she says a prayer over their body and thanks them. This shows that she cares for other animals.

Neytiri teaching Jake how to shoot a bow and arrow

Humans do not tend to see the significance of feeling bad for killing other living beings. Humans do it for game which is completely opposite of the views Neytiri sees. Another thing that connects Neytiri to nature is Eywa which is the ultimate mother nature. Eywa is very significant to the avatar people because they go there for answers and connections to their ancestors.

Throughout the whole film you can make connections of real life issues with humans taking the earth for granted. Neytiri shows that the earth is highly valuable and that there needs to be more care for it.




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