I love how the Water Tribe siblings find themselves needing Aang to explain to them as if they knew nothing about the outside world.

Of course, I’m being sarcastic – the fact Aang is explaining isn’t a good thing.

More specifically, there’s no need for any of this to be explained to either one of them. Apples and roses after all can be enjoyed quite well without knowing the name of what the item is, but the act of Aang telling them comes across as him showing off his intelligence in comparison to their own. Funny how that definitely correlates with how white people lecture Native American people, isn’t it?

Yeah, yeah. I get the fact the story is old. I get the fact the writer has moved on and this is just an archive for their older stories. The thing is, the writer was willing to admit that – hey – the older stories they wrote weren’t very good, but the readers are so painfully oblivious to what the write is aware of, but in this case they’ve not noticed the unintentional racism on the part of the writer because they’re sucked in by the beautiful prose.

Mind you, a few have called the story out, like the guest review pointing out that the writer made Katara seem slow in the story, but none of them have noticed that this is a common narrative in regards to native people.

I never thought about Katara and Sokka not seeing much of plant life and being interested in it! A neat concept!

Oh, this is beautiful too, Katara experiencing something we take for granted, feeling something soft and lovely with her fingers, that doesn't melt with her heat like the snow of her homeland. Actually being able to experiance it's fragrance, take in it's colour and learn about it; this piece is so tactile in its descriptions. And it's lovely as a result.

U make katara seem slow

No offense but I really don't get :-(

that was beautiful...enough said

gr8 story

great idea! I love what Katara said at the end of the fic... good way on ending it~

Story makes an excellent point: Katara and Sokka lived in a land of snow and ice. They perhaps suffered something similar to culture shock when they saw lands without snow for the first time.

Aw, cute

ADORABLE!

I'll bet you haven't gotten reviews for this story in a while!

I thought it was really sweet. It must have been hard to write about Avatar when it was so new. I just started writing now, and I still have trouble staying in character.

Your characters were totally in line, and I love roses too.

Katara seems like the kind of person to fall head-over-heels for a flower. :)

Well, I just wanted to read a really old story. I think you did a great job, and I really hope getting this review was a pleasant surprise.

Great job!

That was a beautiful story. I loved reading it very much.

i love this! i read it when it cam out b4 but i decided to read it again and i loved it!

Another excellent oneshot. Once again, I say that your writing is great. You have talent, and much of it.

That's so lovely ... It's easy to forget how beautiful things like roses are when we take them for granted. Guess that's where the "stop and smell the roses" adage comes from!