This blog is meant to be used as an example for first-year composition students. Rhonda is a fictional community college student who will perpetually be taking the two-course sequence. This is her online writing and research journal (her 2012 research entries run from 1/20-5/5/2012; Eng101 reading journal that year runs from 8/22-12/5/12). For an explanation of the course, see below for Rethinking Teaching the Research Paper.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
My Brilliant Conclusion about Disability in Avatar
Is it really a brilliant conclusion? Probably not. Anybody who spends time thinking about disability (and all the issues that involves) while watching Avatar (repeatedly) will most likely see the same thing that I did. The bottom line is that this film does, sadly, rely on a stereotype about the disabled, and it does so mainly as a matter of convenience in order to get its audience to accept Jake turning his back on humanity. Even worse, this exploitation of disability is unnecessary and cowardly. How much bolder a statement would it have made if an able-bodied Jake decided that he would rather belong to the ecologically responsible Na'vi than the planet-raping humans? More about this later-- I've really been thinking about this a lot.
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