so he shouldnt be as affected negatively by his mothers passing, because he didnt see her die?
You don't suppose that given that Sokka hardly remembers his mother - and he says when he tries to, he sees Katara - and that Katara can still vividly remember the night the Fire Nation raided their village and (apparently; I actually don't remember this detail) was the one who found their mother's body that this indicates that they might have experienced her passing in different and much more traumatic ways?
So, no. He shouldn't be as affected negatively.
i havent invented a thing
"Willfully spiteful," I think was the offending portion.
so shes mad that she feels upset about feeling abandoned by him?
... That seems overly reductive to the point that I suspect it's done to minimize, but I'm on four hours of sleep right now, so I suppose. I mean, it's a part of the story at least.
while it may appear that way, and i can understand that you think so, i am in fact putting myself in kataras shoes. its in the one way we are similar minus the fact that she was reunited with her father. i can understand how it feels, which is why i dont understand her actions.
Would you behave the same way now as you might have at fourteen? Were you in really similar situation (beyond the separation from your father; I mean the other stuff we've been talking about that explains Katara's character development and traits that she has in addition to the simple separation)?
Beyond the fact that I suspect that your situation and hers are less similar than you think (since you're thinking just about whether you were somehow separated from your father), Generic is right, and that was the thrust of my complaint in the first place. You were looking at this rationally, and that's not the way to consider why a character in emotional turmoil was behaving in an irrational way.
now that simply isnt fair. its ok to cast shade on what sokka was doing to hope for a chance of a survival against a far more formidable opponent, but judging katara is different? and lets be honest, the fire nation WAS going to invade the southern water tribe. within the year, it was gonna happen, especially if the avatar wasnt there.
... What he was doing was utterly irrelevant. We saw that the very first episode when Zuko's ship arrived. Sokka might have taken himself very seriously as the warrior of the village, but even Katara knew full well what was really going on: He was playing soldier. And when Zuko's dinky little boat came right up to the village, we saw how futile everything he was doing was.
It's harsh, but it's true. The
only reason the Southern Water Tribe stayed safe was because it wasn't a target because it was a tiny village with women, children - the closest thing to a warrior was a fifteen year old boy, and none of them were (so far as the Fire Nation knew) waterbenders.
And not only were his actions not particularly meaningful, we saw what Sokka was doing to defend the village. He attempted to lead half a kindergarten class as warriors, and he built up and maintained his snow wall. Katara was the one who actually had to grow up and become the adult in the family. She took on new responsibilities, while Sokka's childhood continued much longer than hers did.
