The World for
World is Forest depicts the future of humanity with the unchanging destructive
nature of human and the collateral damage that comes from it. This book
assimilates the movie ‘Avatar,’ in a way that humans invade earthlike planet and
destroy the nature and hunt down the native people. However, the story includes
more themes such as slavery, racism, and sexism.
Natives who live
in the planet Athshe have tender nature. Humans who arrive in this planet take
advantage of this and treat them like slaves. Unlike few individuals such as
Dr. Lyubov who cares about the survival of the forest and its people, others
only care about the wellbeing of humans. Humans do not consider the fact that they
have abused the forest people and when the natives arise against them, they
plan to wipe them out.
The concept of
racism is well represented in the story. Even though the natives can carry out
any activities (ex) speak, think, dream, and eat) that humans can, humans discriminate
the natives because of their color and physical differences, calling them ‘primitives.’
They rape the female natives and disregard male natives, thinking the natives
are less than humans.
It is quite
weird to notice that women play no important role in the text. They were often treated
as prostitutes and who need to be ‘shipped’ as wives of colonists. They do not
have any voice in the text.
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