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            The article in The Washington Post written by Courtland Miloy is an interesting article to say the least. In my opinion, the article is just as much a fantasy as the movie it is reviewing. Courtland Miloy looked much to far into the movie Avatar, and came out with an opinion that some may agree with, and many will not. Miloy claims “This is not a story about a white man who goes to lead native peoples as their condescending savior. It's a story about a backward white man who is transformed and takes up armed struggle against imperialism alongside them." I believe Courtland Miloy is wrong about the movie.

            Although I believe the Na’vi do resemble the Native Americans and their struggle against white people, I don’t think this is a theme that the entire movie is based off of. What it comes down to is a love story between two people that weren’t supposed to fall in love. And as you could compare it to something having to do with racial struggles, I would compare it to something more like Romeo and Juliet, a more coincidental conflict. The film wasn’t racist, the white people just wanted what was underneath the grounds of Pandora, and were willing to do whatever it took to get to the minerals. It could have been more white people they were trying to move, it could’ve been a family of gophers they were trying to move, all they wanted was the ores under the Na’vi’s great tree.  They sent Jake in simply to infiltrate and try to relocate them, but he accidentally fell in love with one of them and changes sides. In my opinion, Courtland Miloy dove to deep into the movie and came out with an opinion that just didn’t add up. 

My Myth

            At the beginning of time, there were four animals. A crow named Darnell, a prairie dog named Quantavious, a wolf named Shaniqua, and an otter named Jim and they lived in harmony as the only four creatures in the world. The crow stayed in the skies flying around day and night, the prairie dog stayed underground, the wolf stayed in the forest, and the otter stayed in the water. They were always separated, for the crow was always north in the sky, the prairie dog was always south in the ground, the wolf was always east in the forest, and the otter was always west in the ocean.

            One day, the great chief descended from the heavens to give them a special message.

            “You four animals must work together and combine your worlds and make it livable for a special new species called human beings,” He said. So the animals began to work. The prairie dog dug giant canals, which otter filled with water, and they became valleys. Wolf and crow planted trees all over the earth, to form many forests in every direction. Eventually, the four different worlds became one, and the great chief descended once again.

            “You have successfully integrated your worlds together. Now you must add humans to your new world,” He ordered. He handed each animal a bag of magical seeds. “These seeds when planted, will form into human beings,”

            They accepted their bags and went to form the first human beings. They each planted their seeds in different parts of the world and formed the first people.