Avatar In The Westward Expansion

This movie, Avatar, is about creatures in another world called Pandora. These people have a lot of beliefs and are very religious. The main character, Jake, is paralyzed but when he is put into a machine he becomes an avatar in the world, he is not paralyzed. He can go into this world whenever he wants, and he starts becoming one of the Avatars. They start trusting him and teaching him how to fight and survive in their world.
He falls in love with a real avatar from Pandora. He tries to warn her about the military who is wanting to destroy their world for metal that is under their precious tree but she won’t listen. Then, when they come all the avatars team up to try and stop them.
The Avatar movie links with the Westward Expansion. In the Westward Expansion people moved to the west because
Just like in the Avatar the military want the avatars to move because of a metal that is under their trees is very valuable and expensive. In both situations people are moving because some kind of cause. Because of this metal the marines try to tell the avatars to move but it’s the avatars homes so they do not want to. Then, the marines start a war, killing avatars and destroying their land. These marines can’t just destroy anything they want; they are discriminated because they think the avatars won’t do anything about them destroying their land and are weaker than them. All of these marines are teaming up to fight for this land that isn’t theirs. The marines are a much larger group than the avatars, this is showing populism.
The Manifest Destiny was a belief, a belief that America was destined to expand from coast to coast. In the Avatar, they have a lot of beliefs because of their religion. They believe in saving, that if someone dies they can bring their spirit back to life. They have a spirit tree which is like their Home tree, but is called Omaticaya.
It is very important to the people of Pandora. It has a lot of spiritual influence. Just like in the Manifest