Narrative In Literature

Chapter II
Literature review

Narrative exists through the history of human beings, since the earliest time until such postmodern era,narrative formulation has enriched mankind’s life. In fact, narrative survives globally together with the culture. Take for example; children all over the world grow up with fables, legends, epics, short stories, even tales painted in stained glass, pictures, and pantomimes. Narratives for humans are very natural, every moment we have been dealing with many kinds of narratives. This is the most familiar, and in a way, considered normal literature for us, since we have grown with it. Narratives present a form of illusion and joy for the audience, so that unconsciously it can provoke us with hidden values.
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The Na’vi are a symbols for the victims of white America, expressing as they do a combination of Native American and African spirituality which is based on living in harmony with nature. Scholars of tribal religions such as Sam Gill have long noticed that such idealization does not really serve actual tribal people as it fails to represent them in their contemporary reality; instead, they are viewed as trapped in a primeval and uncontaminated realm of nature which perhaps never existed, and as such simply function to charge our own wasteful and non-environmental materialism. In the case of the computer generated Na’vi, they are depicted in a way to heighten their exotic and sensual nature, painted in phosphorescent blue with phallic tails and lean, muscular bodies that are largely unclothed.
…"It 's really upsetting in many ways," says actress Robinne Lee, who is black with Jamaican and Chinese ancestry, talking to the AP about Avatar’s white savior fantasy. "It would be nice if we could save

' For some conservative critics, like Will Heaven of The Telegraph, ' 'Avatar 's racial paternalism is of a piece with its liberal politics. "As Left-wing conceits go, this one surely tops all the others: the ethnic Na 'vi, the film suggests, need the white man to save them because, as a less developed race, they lack the intelligence and fortitude to overcome their adversaries by themselves," he writes. " 'Avatar is artistic evidence of the ugly mindset which underlies so much of Left-wing thinking today: the belief that only the superior Western liberal is fit to lead the world into a better future." Conservative blogger kungfupoo at Cinemaroll argues that the movie is racist, but against white