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Read:  The Racial Politics of 'Avatar' | Psychology Today Canada.  Is Avatar just another “white savior” film, or do you agree with the author of the article that it is “deeper than that”?  

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Read:  The Racial Politics of 'Avatar' | Psychology Today Canada.  Is Avatar just another “white savior” film, or do you agree with the author of the article that it is “deeper than that”?  

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What are the long-term consequences of colonialism depicted in Avatar and Things Fall Apart for both the colonizers and the indigenous populations?How do the legacies of colonialism continue to shape the societies?

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What are the long-term consequences of colonialism depicted in Avatar and Things Fall Apart for both the colonizers and the indigenous populations?How do the legacies of colonialism continue to shape the societies?

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Read:  Native Peoples See Themselves in 'Avatar' (voanews.com).  Director James Cameron says Avatar is meant to be an emotional film, not a political one. How do you see the movies: emotional or political?  How do you think indigenous people view this film?

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Read:  Native Peoples See Themselves in 'Avatar' (voanews.com).  Director James Cameron says Avatar is meant to be an emotional film, not a political one. How do you see the movies: emotional or political?  How do you think indigenous people view this film?

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Analyze the various strategies of resistance employed by the indigenous peoples in Avatar and Things Fall Apart.  How do these strategies evolve over the course of each narrative? 

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Analyze the various strategies of resistance employed by the indigenous peoples in Avatar and Things Fall Apart.  How do these strategies evolve over the course of each narrative? 

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Discuss the connections between colonialism and environmental exploitation.  How do the colonizers' extractive practices impact the ecosystems and indigenous livelihoods?

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Discuss the connections between colonialism and environmental exploitation.  How do the colonizers' extractive practices impact the ecosystems and indigenous livelihoods?

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Consider both Avatar and Things Fall Apart.  What symbols are used to convey the imbalance of power and the oppression experienced by the indigenous populations?  Explain whether or not these symbols were effectively used.

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Consider both Avatar and Things Fall Apart.  What symbols are used to convey the imbalance of power and the oppression experienced by the indigenous populations?  Explain whether or not these symbols were effectively used.

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In Avatar, humans not being able to breathe on Pandora represent how people have different powers, even though humans can't breathe there, they still find a way to try to colonize pandora. This shows that people would do anything in their power to colonize a culture for money. This symbol was effectively used because it showed how the people in Paandora have different powers than humans. Humans found a way to breathe there which represents how people can find a way to colonize others.

In things fall apart, the locusts represent how the colonizers took over the villages and took away their power. This symbol was efficiently used when they compare the locust and the white men, because they come in swarms.

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In Things Fall Apart, we can see the symbols of their practices through the way they communicate with meetings, the significant meaning behind the drums, and the way they are all connected between their marriages.

In Avatar, we can see the symbols of how they practice religion, how they live, and what they mean through their relationship with the animals, the need to give back to the earth, and the act of being connected with each other and their ancestors.

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Colonialism had severe impacts on Indigenous livelihoods. Indigenous communities faced threats to their lands and livelihoods due to extractive development projects, leading to physical impacts and food shortages. When colonizers build schools and hospitals and prisons, it causes conflict in their life and more discrimination since the colonizers are forcing them to adapt to their practices. And then the Indigigenous people start to lose thier culture because thier enviorment is slowly getting colonized to be more western.

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The symbols that are used to convey the imbalance of power and the oppression experienced by the indigenous population in Avatar is the tree of souls because it was effectively used in their culture. In Things Fall Apart, the gender roles were used to convey the imbalance of power because they compared women to men.

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In Avatar, symbols of oppression were the Sky people attempting to destroy their home just for the sake of acquiring a metal. But regarding both they wanted to exploit their natural resources in a harmful way, and ended up with destroyed homes, along with their personal way of living. The intent was to make the people like the colonizers, going as far as building them schools and have them forget about their culture and teach them something entirely different. In Okonkwo's village when the missionaries came to Africa, they wanted them to completely abandon their culture and their way of life, telling them that everything they did and everything they believed in was wrong and misled.

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Religion, gender, and titles in society are symbols used to convey the imbalance of power and oppression experienced by the indigenous peoples. With religion, the indigenous people in Things Fall Apart are mocked for what they believe in by the colonizers with the white men saying their religion is made of wood and sticks. In Avatar, titles in society are used to convey the imbalance of power when the general is seen calling all the shots and attempting to kill anyone from his side who tries to rebel. This is also seen in Things Fall Apart when the egwuwu scare the children and women to show the power they hold over them. The inequality of women to men is also shown in the book to represent power imbalances.

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I see Avatar as political because it can show how people in countries like America take over others for money. They ruin cultures and destroy homes and families.

Indigenous people would view this film as emotional because it shows how a culture, like theirs,  can be discriminated against and forced out because of other people's perspective of how their culture is more superior to others.

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A symbol that was used in the book Things Fall Apart was locusts. They compared these pests to the Europeans, and how they first came to survey and then took over a place. We see similar reactions for both the locusts and the colonizers when they arrive. This symbol was effectively used and is even clearly stated in comparison with the Europeans.

In Avatar, Pandora was a symbol to show what was happening and happened in the real world as nations colonized others and took over the indigenous populations. This fictional planet is used to show how nations are affected when others come in, dictating how colonizers and locals feel and their relationship. Both these symbols are used to depict colonizers in negative ways.

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In both Avatar and Things Fall Apart, symbols such as weapons (guns, blasters, bicycles, and ships) are used to show the imbalance of power. The symbols are used very effectively. The power on the humans side were ships and blasters which overpowered the Na’vi. The strength and imbalance of these weapons, was very apparent because during the first battle the arrows could not scathe the ships whereas the ships used torpedoes to wreak the tree with great power. In Things fall apart, examples are bicycles were unheard of and guns were too mighty for Abame village. This was shown when they called the bicycles "iron horses" which shows the difference in technological advancements of the natives and the colonizers.

While the colonizers are outnumbered, they have far superior technology, which allows them to gain an advantage.

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I think spirituality was used to convey the effect of oppression experienced by the indigenous people because the native people would often seek help from their spiritual leaders in times of sorrow. The imbalance of power was conveyed in both stories with the struggle in power. In Avatar, there are conflicts between the people on whether or not they should trust Jake and Grace. In Things Fall Apart, this was conveyed when there were varying opinions on the influence of the white men on the tribe. Some leaders were welcoming while others like Okonkwo didn't like the presence of the white people.

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In avatar, the technology and modernized ideas that the humans bring represent the difference in powers between the Na'vi and the sky people. Their technology allows them to become one with the Na'vi and bring destruction easily whereas the Na'vi do not have technology that can level with the human's.

In Things fall apart, the modern ideas and the religion they bring represents the difference between the colonizers and the people of Umuofia.

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The symbols were: yams for Things Fall Apart because they show people value and strength. Drums were another symbol because they were used for important moments and for important people. In Avatar the weapons were used as imbalance of power because the humans had so much more technology and harder/tougher weapons compared to the Navi people. Also the people had the planes and the Navi used birds and horses to travel. It was easier for the humans because of the physical technologies and machines that were easy to learn compared to Navi people where everything needs to be connected and worked for.

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In Avatar, a symbol that is illustrated to convey the oppression experienced by the indigenous population is the home tree. The home tree was significant as a symbol of interconnectedness, balance, and spirits. However, when the tree was destroyed and blasted, it represents how the sky people oppressed the Na’vi and destroyed their home.

In Things Fall Apart, the symbol of yams helps to convey the imbalance of power. Before the missionaries arrived and life was good for Okonkwo, his yams thrived as well as his life. However, when his life started crumbling, his yams were taken away from him.

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The extraction of their home plus the practices changed, the ineffective way of the disconnection of the people's practices regions, and community was looked at as a discriminatory thing by outsiders. They view it as something that is stupid and not meaningful. So, with colonialism, the extraction of their home and others is very hurtful and very significant.

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I think some symbols that are used to convey are inspiration and motivation. I think this because in both cases, the colonists have a single objective, but the indigenous people genuinely care about one another and have various goals. As a result, the colonists have the advantage of surprise and might since the native people are unaware of their approach until it is too late.

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When the colonizers came to the Umuofia clan, they brought Christianity to Umuofia and it brought a major change to their society. After the colonizers came over, many people left the clan for the church. Okwonkwo and other struggled with the new ideas that led to many problems.

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Colonialism and environmental exploitation go hand in hand because the colonizers are looking to remove resources which the land needs which affects the ecosystem and animals that live in it. When colonizing, people want the resources that come with the land they colonize, so they extract the resources excessively which exploits the environment rather than cherishing the land like the natives. The impact that colonialism has on the indigenous livelihoods is it removes them from their environment and their way of life, areas that they built around are gone when colonizers relocate them either by force or convincing.

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Colonialism and environmental exploitation seem to have a cause-and-effect relationship. The destruction done to the indigenous lands are all results of the impacts of the colonizers. The colonizer's extractive practices impact the ecosystems and indigenous livelihoods by destroying and mocking them. In Avatar, the Americans call the Na'vi people savages and destroy the things most sacred to their land, including the tree of souls. In Things Fall Apart, the colonizers use the land to create their own religious buildings and convert indigenous peoples to Christianity which creates a divide between the Igbo people.

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Colonialism wipes out any sense of culture, because the point of it is to have a group of people be like them, and live on their terms. In Avatar when the military come they bomb the Navi's sacred tree and in doing so they kill some of their people including their chief and the Navi are forced to seek refuge somewhere else.

Environmental exploiting is taking things from it native place, taking more and more land and leading to more damage. Though In Things Fall Apart the colonizers chop down tree in the Evil Forest, but nothing bad happened to them which created doubt within the clan

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Colonialism was executed by the sky people so they could obtain the special mineral unobtanium. The colonizers impacted the environment as they had to destroy the land and home trees to get rid of the Na'vi people. Exploiting the natural environment leads to animals losing their home and deforestation. In general, colonialism can exploit land and the environment because the goals of colonizers are to either establish colonies or obtain raw materials. Both of these ideas can harm the environment as they can exploit the land and damage natural forests.

In Things Fall Apart, the unmasking is a connection between colonialism can lead to exploitation.

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In Avatar, the connections run very deep between colonialism and environmental exploitation.

Jake Sully sees the beauty of nature. The humans want to use their land to mine unobtanium. The damage caused to the environment is very apparent.

Excavators and bomb ships were used by the colonizers to destroy nature. They also destroyed the big tree.

The after seeing from the other perspective, the capitalists sound terrible, they say “it's just a tree”.

The same goes with things falling apart. They disrespect their animal and plant spirits. They destroyed their beliefs which are connected to nature.

While we don't see much environmental exploitation in things falling apart. We can predict that the colonizers probably plan to exploit the land for resources.

These changes completely changed the way of life of both the Na'vi and the Africans. It changed their traditions and life style.

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I see the movies as an emotional film rather than a political one, and I think the indigenous people would see the emotional side of the film as well because for some, they can directly connect to the storyline which ultimately may trigger some genetic trauma that resided with colonialism over their ancestors culture and land. For the indigenous people, they have more of an emotional connection to the film because they are able to connect with the characters, how they felt during the movie, and with the experience, they may or may not know what it was like according to their ancestors, but it still shows the deep roots colonialism has engraved into their minds and the violence associated with it.

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The colonizers’ interest in extracting natural resources conflicts with the traditional lifestyles of the indigenous and the balance of the ecosystems as the plants and animals are misplaced and misused only for the profit of the mother country and their preservation and safety are ignored. The locals in Avatar have a deep personal connection with the nature around them, and the locals in Things Fall Apart also worship their land and the Earth around them as gods. When the colonizers come, this relationship is strained as both the people from Earth in Avatar and the Europeans in the book don't have a particular consideration for nature, dismissing the native beliefs and only focusing on their goal.

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I saw Avatar as an emotional and political film because it carried an important colonialism message while also adding a storyline to make viewers feel connected to the characters. I think the indigenous people would have also seen the film as both a political and emotional one. I think this because the film depicts the tragedies that occur with colonization while also demonstrating the economic and political reasons behind colonization.

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In TFA, the locusts are the symbol used to foreshadow the coming of the colonists. Only a few came at first and then a grand swarm came. Gender is also a symbol of the imbalance of power because of the different roles that women and men play in the Ibo society. Men are expected to be providers. They earn honor and respect from the number of children and wives they have. However, women are viewed as important only for children and to support their husbands in whatever decisions they make.

In Avatar, the technological advances that the humans had showed the imbalance of power. Despite not having the oxygen needed to breathe, they made a mask to survive on the new planet. While the Omatikaya used bows and arrows as defense, the sky people had huge machine guns and missiles used to destroy their homes and extract unobtanium.

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The connections between colonialism and environmental exploitation are represented by the humans willing to kill hundreds of Na’vi to extract Unobtanium. The humans were also willing to destroy Pandora entirely to gain the Unobtanium similar to what happened on Earth according to Jake. The aggressive extractive practices of the colonizers had a greatly negative impact on the ecosystems and livelihoods of the indigenous people. Hundreds of plants and animals were killed when the humans decided to bomb the Hometree.

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The indigenous people lose their homes and their goal of protecting the environment as a result of the respect for the disappearing of natural surroundings. The indigenous people suffer an emotional breakdown as a result of the colonists' actions, which results in the destruction of their culture and the environment.

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I think its emotional because of how much political accuracy is in the movie. Being aware that the planet of Pandora is a fictional place, it is still based off of real life events and experiences, like the colonization of the Americas. I think that the indigenous people can see this film as impactful and an opportunity for people that don’t identify as indigenous to have an introduction to a culture many aren't familiar with.

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I think Avatar was made to represent the beauty in Indigenous cultures and the misunderstanding which takes place between those cultures and society. I do not believe the movie was made from a political point of view, but the colonizers in the movie definitely see Pandora as a political thing rather than a beautiful universe which the Na'vi people call home. I think Indigenous people view this film as a way of representing how it feels to have your birthplace, religion, beliefs, and/or traditions destroyed by people who simply do not understand them.

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I see Avatar as an emotional film instead of a political one because it was based off of things that happened before and there was a lot of emotions in the movie. I think Indigenous people would also view this film as an emotional film because some people can connect more to Avatar because it is based off of real events.

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In my point of view, I view this film as an emotional film due to the act of showcasing the destruction of the environment in the movie and connecting that to the real world with colonialism. I say this because we can see that many discriminate and don't understand the sentimental meaning behind certain things in communities. So it felt like the film was an emotional hidden message.

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I see it as both emotional and political in nature.

However, its political nature doesn’t apply as deeply much in the modern day because colonialism is not very widespread in today's world.

The movie definitely condemns ideas such as colonization because of the contrast between the beauty of nature and the terror of destruction.

It achieves this message by showing the deep emotional scars that are left by colonization. The avatars are human-like, and their emotions are ones that the viewer can feel. Having deep emotions show makes it a more powerful message.

I think that indigenous people would sympathize with the film.

While the Na'vi are able to drive out the colonizers, many indigenous populations were overrun by their colonizers, who took their land.

They may be resentful that they were unable to drive out their colonizer.

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The practices of the humans in Avatar of how they destroyed everything and took over was their way of colonizing. The humans ruining the tree where the Navi people lived was a prime example of how the humans impacted the ecosystem. They destroyed as much as they could. They did not care about he environment, they just wanted to make money and get what they wanted and leave. They wanted to manipulate the Navi so that they could do/get whatever they wanted.

In Things Fall Apart, the colonizers come in and settle, and brings in beliefs that ruin the community and connections of the tribe and families. The colonizers were not trying to destroy the environment, but rather to spread religion, but they ended up ruining the environment and peace that the tribe had. The missionaries attacked their beliefs.

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I think Avatar is both an emotional and political movie. The director, James Cameron intended it to be an emotional movie but I can understand why it would be perceived as a political movie because of the sensitive subjects discussed in the movie like colonialism. I think indigenous people might view this as a political movie because the main plot is a human saving the Na’vi, they might consider this to be similar to a white savior.

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I see the movie as an emotional film, but the indigenous probably view it as a political film. I think that the plot of the Indigenous allows the audience to feel an emotional connection with the film and feel for the characters, so it was chosen. We think about the locals and support their wishes and goals as we understand their vulnerable state, something that the filmmakers probably wanted the audience to feel. The Indigenous probably think that the film was made to show the effects they experienced and how colonization has destroyed their lifestyles and welfare. They probably feel that the film helps describe their issues on a mainstream level and help bring interest in their own issues.

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In Avatar, the sky people's goal was to extract unobtanium because of the value it had in their currency. The sky people attacked the home tree of the Omatikaya because it was right over a deposit of unobtanium. The Omatikaya people consider themselves very interconnected to nature. An example of this would be the seeds of the sacred tree that are considered a sign from Eywa, the Great Mother. The Omatikaya also have personal bonds with the animals they use for transportation like the horses and dragon-like creatures. All of these connections with nature are threatened when the colonizers use guns/missiles to take down the home tree and kill the trees, animals, and people of the clan.

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I think the indigenous people would also find the film to be emotionally just much as I do. Yes, there are political elements, but they are far surpassed by the emotions. It's possible that the indigenous people have the same feelings as shown in the movie, but whatever the author claims it is what will happen. Also, not all of the feelings are a result of colonization or indigenous people.

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The movie showed a lot of emotion and sad things like their loss and how upsetting everything was. There was a lot of tragedy and sorrow that took place in the movie that created sad emotions to the viewers. The movie was also happy because of the good and fun times they went through as well. They made the movie emotional to show what is going on around the world and to spread awareness. It was also a good political example because it showed exactly how the humans overruled with power and tried to take over by gaining as much information as they could. They also implemented spy's which is a good example of what is going on around the world right now and how political parties are trying to sneak information and then inflict pain and get what they want with the information.

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I saw this movie as both emotional and political. I think the emotional aspect of the movie was used to attract more people to watch the movie to bring attention to the immense impact that colonization had on the modern world. The love plot between Jake and Neytiri, the faith of the people in Eywa, and the significance of the Home Tree and Soul Tree are all emotional aspects of the movie. However, the fact that the sky people had more technological advantages and machine-based power is very similar to how colonization happened in the real world. A lot of the indigenous populations tried to resist colonization, but they were not as advanced when it came to military power compared to the European colonizers. I think indigenous populations would resonate with the way the Omatikaya people were portrayed in the movie and how helpless they felt when their home was torn to pieces. It would probably bring repressed anger at how things turned out in history.

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The people were not really accepting at first in both stories. In Avatar they grew even more hatred towards the humans after they realized that they were trying to take over their land and get materials from their home. In Things Fall Apart some people were trying to get help from the people but others were still not accepting and wanted to do things like start a war against them.

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I see the resistance happening in Avatar from the indigenous people by banding together more since they found over 20,000 people though Jake giving speeches and they came together to overpower the colonizers. In things fall apart I did not see as much resistance because a lot of people wanted to convert to Christianity because a lot of people were seen lower down in society as a result of their culture. Since Okonkwo left the group for 7 years during his exile too they didn't have a huge asset to stop the European people from colonizing.

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Many different strategies were employed by the indigenous people in Avatar and Things Fall Apart. First, the colonizers use diplomacy to try and convince the natives, but then, it results in force and many unnecessary and destructive actions. With the Na'vi, they believe in themselves more, and they stick with their beliefs which helps them with their confidence and motivation to fight, this helped the Na'vi win whereas in Things Fall Apart, the natives loose

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Throughout Avatar they get more clans and avatars to come and help them fight against the humans. The weird animal-like creatures helped to defeat them by flying at their helicopters, and the dinosaur things charged the soldier on ground.

In the Things Fall Apart  book the Igbo killed the Christians and their messengers to show that they were better, and the Igbo kind of gave up.

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In TFA, the Igbo initially resist the invasion, but after certain groups are wiped out by the Europeans and missionaries ingratiate themselves in the community, with a government following, the native groups begin to splinter and disunite due to cultural differences and being manipulated by the Europeans.

In Avatar, the Na’vi resist in a united way after the humans show that they do not care for the Na’vi and begin to kill them for resource access. They even go so far as to drive them out of their home and kill many of their clan. This violence drove unity from necessity. Because of this unity, they eventually win.

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In Avatar, the strategies involve mostly violence and fighting back, similarly in the book the people of Umuofia use violence to fight back against the missionaries. In both the movie and book, tactics evolve from being mostly violent to using negotiation and compromise throughout the extent.

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They kill in Things Fall Apart. In Avatar they let the colonizers adapt to their lands and try to become one with them. When they started to attack more in both the movie and the book they started a war. In Avatar they decided to stay together as a group they didn't abandon their village/ tribe. In Things Fall apart once most the Igbo people started to turn to Christianity they stopped resisting the colonizers and joined them.

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Jake assembling the rest of the tribes and becoming the Toruk Makto, and giving the people the sense of belonging and nationalism to fight for their land. Another strategy of resistance would be the sounds and hissing the Na'vi make to intimidate their opponent. In Things fall apart, their resistance would be the burning of the church, and Okonwo's want to fight them and destroy them, and people like Okonkwo not wanting to be under the colonizers.

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In both stories the people being colonized were against it and didn't agree with it, but they were attacked in different ways. In Avatar there was much more physical battles with weapons and killings which was the climax of the movie and was the nig deal. On the contrary to the movie, in the book we saw more of a war on who could persuade who to join there side and join their religion in order to break them down culturally instead of actually having to fight them.

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In TFA, the colonizers win the struggle and take control of the region, establishing a system of resource extraction and exploiting the Igbo, creating a lasting impact of instability and ethnic tensions. The lack of unity of the Igbo people due to long standing cultural differences was carefully manipulated by the Europeans and allowed them to take control. In Avatar, the Na’vi were able to, after a long struggle, remove the hostile humans from Pandora, but the scars left behind were significant. Several important cultural and habitation sites were destroyed, and many Na’vi were lost to the humans. The humans dropped the idea of the long game and diplomacy due to their lust for profit, which would ultimately be their undoing.

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The long term effects of Avatar  were that their original land and home was destroyed and many of their family died. Jack Sully also learned the Na'vi way and how to gain their trust.

The long term effects of the Igbo tribe were a new religion and new ideas were brought upon their land. When the colonizers asked for land and they built in the "evil forest", once the Igbo saw that nothing happened to the colonizers they started to trust them and started to switch religions.

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In Avatar, Destruction of Pandora, loss of indigenous way of life are all consequences. In Things Fall Apart, Disintegration of Igbo society, loss of cultural identity are all consequences. Colonialism leaves the societies shook up and unequal, the government was completely changed. Post colonialism can create a collapse of government leading to a future of power imbalance and injustice.

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The long term consequences that I saw in Avatar was the trauma of war, and the loss of their loved ones like Grace, Neytiri's father, Tsu'tey, and others too. Also with the colonizers threat of coming back, that is also going to be a long term conflict, becuase the colonizers want to retaliate and they don't want to back down. In things fall apart, the colonizers trying to shape colonized societies, they are trying to push their beliefs and continue to push. I feel like this would also create some sort of trauma on their history.

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An example of a resistance strategy in TFA would be how the Egwugwu destroyed the Christian church after one of the converts unmasked an Egwugwu. This would be more of an aggressive and forceful strategy. Okonkwo also uses a more aggressive and bold strategy as he kills a messenger out of rage. In Avatar, their main way of resistance is to fight back whenever the humans invade their land. When the humans kill the sacred tree, they use their bows and arrows to fend the humans off, which doesn't work. At the end of the movie when the humans come and try to get rid of the Na'Vi people, the Na'Vi people again fend off the humans. But this time it is successful because they are better with how they use their combat skills, and they also use the help of the animals and the wildlife.

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While the main character is a white savior who later becomes one of the people because he was the chosen one, and that he also realized the treatment of the Na’vi people was wrong and unjust, I also think that this movie conveys many interpretations and is beyond just the white man saving the day. I think this movie shows belonging, and fighting for something that is worth fighting for, the movie goes through a lot of depictions of what is already called history, and I don’t think there should be criticism for it since it also is just a movie.

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In Avatar, colonists left and did not come back because they were scared of the Na’vi people. The Navi people were able to stay on the land they had and protect the sacred tree. In Things Fall Apart, the colonists stayed and tried to change everything to be like them. The natives eventually gave up when they felt like it was needed and they let the colonization happen.

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I think the film is deeper than another “white savior” film because although Jake was originally human, he always saw being a member of the Na’vi as something far more desirable, and more natural, than being a human. He wants to help them in their situation to overcome the technology of the humans, by using the native life of Pandora and their own tribal weapons in a clever way, showing that the Na’vi are their own saviors, as they did the fighting after getting just a little help from Jake. While Jake helped lead their resistance effort, it was the Na'vi with their own warriors and combat prowess who won their freedom.

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In avatar the Na'vi people used Jake in their battles to fight back against the colonizers.  In Things Fall Apart this can be shown by Okonkwo fighting against joining the new religion since he wanted to keep his own. Throughout both Things Fall Apart and Avatar there was a lot of violence between the colonizers and indigenous people.

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In TFA there is a much more complicated ending since now that the white man is almost in full control there is going to be a new way of living for all of the people in the village, however in Avatar after the last battle, the humans lost which means they will be able to go back to their normal lives with the consequences being they lost their homes rather than their way of life.

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The main long-term consequences seen in Avatar is the environment being destroyed which in the Na'vi culture is seen as a big thing to respect. Natiri explains to Jake when he is learning about the culture that energy given by Eywa is borrowed and supposed to be given back, and when the colonizers come in there is that "borrowed energy" being taken away without anything being given back since it is being taken by force. Of coarse the second major thing being taken away is lives. In things fall apart though, there are many more long-term consequences. As a result of colonization for Okonkwo's tribe there are tons of people from the tribe leaving and converting to Christianity which ends up in not just their tribe falling apart, but their culture falling apart as people decide to leave. Some other major consequences is land being taken away since the colonizers took land from the Evil Forest and the fact that one of the Egwugwu was unmasked and ended up in that person being seen as "dead" in Okonkwo's culture.

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The long-term consequences are a ruined homeland, with a difference in the way people think, fearfulness of more colonizers and worse forms of oppression. For the colonizers, in Things Fall Apart, the colonizers get more strength and they become more powerful, while in Avatar, the colonizers are defeated and they have to deal with that lose. The legacies of colonialism continue to shape society in the way that, many different rules that were imposed, such as the law system.

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Long term consequences of colonialism were a lot of economical damages, in Avatar a lot of home were destroyed which forced a lot of Na'vi people to move their families. In TFA most tribes lost their people they switched religions and joined the church, Okonkwo lost his son to the colonizers and that is a big deal to lose someone you raised. Even in Avatar with the tree of souls being destroyed that is a long term effect, that was their god and now it is ash.

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In avatar there was many different way of resistance for example they used their abilities to fly the Ikran to escape the people and they also used jakes knowledge of the event to try and help them escape in some ways.

In things fall apart the Igbo were the biggest threat to the colonizers but they didn't seem to realize what was happening until they were already being colonized.

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In TFA, the Igbo peoples' culture and ways of life are changed forever. The energy and spirits that held their culture got completely washed away by the actions of the British. For the British, they become more powerful as a result of the colonization of the Igbo people, as they are able to add another colony to their huge empire. In Avatar, the humans end up getting hurt by their own actions as they lose the battle in the end, which results in them having to give up their project. For the Na'Vi tribe, they do get impacted negatively due to the battle and its impact on the environment, but their success will help them in the long run because they won't have to worry about humans since they defeated them.

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At the end of Avatar, it can be shown that the Na’vi people forced the humans to go back to their land, which I think will cause a long-term rivery of back-and-forth fighting. The legacies of colonialism will continue to shape societies by people going against human rights, poverty, and making it hard to get justice for what you deserve. In Things Fall apart it could be shown that the white people tried to push there religion onto the people, and trying to make them join them and take over there land.

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I agree with the author that it is greater than just another "white savior" movie because it shows an animated version of things that can actually happen, and things that do actually happen in the real world and how it can affect people. For example the Humans were destroying the avatars land without any care

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I feel Avatar has a deeper meaning than just a "White Savior Film." I think the film's ideas and themes are rooted in a deeper meaning of colonialism, injustice, and discrimination. Avatar has many deep messages including Respect for nature, Protecting indigenous rights, and Condemning colonization and imperialism giving Avatar a deeper meaning. This is shown by Jake when he helps the Na'vi people and adapted to their culture.

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I think it is deeper than "white savior" because there is more to it than just a white person saving a whole clan. The clan in the was able to fight without the white people. Then the white people brought more chaos which cause them to solve have to solve their own problems, along with helping the with the clan's.

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Despite the film being very precise about the idea that "A white man is the savior", we see that not only does he save the people but he becomes one of them in doing do, creating a deeper meaning. Jake in the film realizes that there are so many negative interpretations about the indigenous people and as a result of him taking the actual time to learn about them he sees that everything that the other colonizers said about them were wrong. In fact Jake said himself that he felt more alive with the Na'vi people than he originally did in his old life as we see at the end of the film that he gives up his old body to stay with the Na'vi people.

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At a surface level the book can definitely be seen as just a "white savior" film, but at a deeper look you see that Jake started to become apart of their culture and saw himself as more than just a white man but claimed to be part of the tribe. Another thing i saw is that he did not bring anything to the table except himself and everything that the natives used to get rid of the sky people were things that they already had and just were not putting to use.

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I did view Avatar as a "white savior film." This was because I felt that Avatar fit the structure of a white savior film perfectly, and I didn't think there was any deeper meaning of the film besides colonialism and its impact on indigenous people. With this being said, I don't think that since it is another white savior film, this would make it any worse of a movie. It was still a great movie with a great message, but it fit the criteria of a white savior film too perfectly for me not to consider it one.

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I agree with the author that Avatar is deeper than just a “white savior” film. I think that James Cameron wanted to bring light to problems that are going on in the real world by using filmmaking. Reading a textbook is not what everyone wants to do, so I think that it was very smart of Cameron to use a movie, which everyone wants to watch, to potentially teach people about the effects of colonization and what it does to indigenous people. Even though some aspects of the movie do feel like a "white savior" film, I think the way Cameron builds upon Jake Sully's character shows that the white man does not know everything and that everyone must be taught to understand.

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In Things Fall Apart the colonizers ended up winning the tribe over so this was a long term consequence because now they don't have the same leadership so their way of living is changed. They were basically just left with each other but in the book their religion was a big part of their lives and ways of living.

In Avatar the Na'vi people were luckily able to win but they still lost many people in the fight and they lost a lot of their valuable land especially the tree of souls which held their people together spiritually. They also lost their resources.

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I believe that Avatar is deeper than just another "White Savior film" and it isn’t just about a white savior, Jake did help save them but at first, he was a spy for the army. During the movie they don't show just Jake saving the people of Pandora they show him becoming one of the Na'vi people and building a relationship with him. This film shows how someone can learn to do the right thing even if they're being pushed to do the wrong.

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I don't think Avatar just showed the theme of "white savior", the Na'vi people could fight for themselves and they didn't need Jake to help them. It's more about saving the land, since they value their life and the place they live and I think Jake becomes custom to their culture, he learned their ways and truly grew a connection to them.

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I believe that avatar is more than just a "white savior" film because even though jake was white you could tell that the Avatars actually meant more than just avatars. Jake was working to understand their way of living and he was working with the people and I think he felt like it was his reasonability to help the people who were a part of the culture.

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Symbols like the egwugwu show the people's strength and connectivity with each other, showing the power of the situation going on when doing the wrestling.  The parents were leaders of the clan and it shows how the main characters have a main role in both the movie and book. The weapons and guns they use show the imbalance and how advanced they are. The movie says that bows and arrows can stop the heart within two minutes but with guns, it shows empowerment. The Avatar people used their weapons and created them and they also used their nature like animals to get around whereas the missionaries used their up-to-date weapons and planes. It is not easy for the avatar people to learn how to fly an animal and it is easier for people to fly them. It is easier for the people to kill and find the avatar people because they can watch them with Jake helping the missionaries.

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In Avatar they destroyed their home and killed a bunch of people and it was their way of colonizing. What the colonizers did was hurt the people culturally and with things falling apart they believe earth to be their god and the colonizers try and get rid of it which hurts the people. The avatar people explain how it is good to give back to the earth so when the people come in and destroy the sacred environment it is seen as noncultural and very violent. Colonialism goes hand in hand with both of these stories: it is to make money for the colonizers of the indigenous culture. It is always harmful towards the people and the main goal of the colonizers is to spread Christianity and in the movie, it is to get rid of whatever they want.  In the book they gave in to the colonizers but in the movie they kept fighting for what they believed in.

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I see the movie more politically. There were two sides to the war between the Avatar people and the missionaries. One side was fighting for the land of the people and the other side was fighting to keep the land that they had been building for a long time. I also see the movie emotionally. The way they filmed the movie they created it in a very sad, vulnerable way. Whereas when they videoed the people's land getting taken over they added sad music and expressed a lot of the avatars' feelings towards their family and land dying. For example, when the main leader of the avatar clan died, Neytiri showed how depressed she was when she started crying very loudly. I think indigenous people may be very upset when Jake helped the clan because he is a human himself where in the first place he wasn’t supposed to help the clan at first and then all of a sudden he changed views and ended up almost saving them.

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The various strategies employed by the indigenous include using Jake in their battle. At the beginning of both stories, they went along with the colonizers and then they tried to understand their ways in Avatar they used one of the people against them but in Things Fall Apart the people fell apart a lot more and gave up very early in the book. In avatar they trusted their religion more and showed them using their connection to talk to Ewa helped them use it to fight against the colonizers. Whereas in the book, the clan started following the white man's religion because they gave in too easily to what the colonizers wanted the clan to see.

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In the movie, some consequences for the indigenous populations include the destruction of their land and homes and the death of their families. Some other consequences for the colonizers include the destruction of their ships, guns, and other weapons. In the book, some consequences for the indigenous populations include the rotation that held their culture together, their family that was their strongest thing when the colonizers came in it destroyed that strong bond making family a less important thing to focus on. Made a divide between families. This had an impact on the colonizers because it showed that they were affecting the village, influencing them by making them want to continue to do so towards the indigenous people. Colonialism is continuing to shape society today because it left scars on some people who are alive today. They were not able to get their home or family back. Two of the most important things that they were influenced to love and care for since the day they were born. Another long-term cause could be that we don’t know when the missionaries will come back as they claimed at the end of the movie. They will have to be on a constant lookout for the people and protect their homes and families even more.

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I think that Avatar is deeper than just a white savior film because it is helping people who do not know much about colonization and what happened back then to influence their knowledge about what has happened. It helps people realize how heavy the damage caused to the indigenous people by the colonizers. It tells people to value life more beautifully. It shows how beautiful it is to value life outside and not take things for granted. As in the movie, Jake is shocked at how much he has a connection with Pandora and how it is so much more than what the missionaries describe it to be like.