SW paper

.: shadowball2021 :. · Youngling

Hello, Shadow here. I did a couple of sw related papers for my fiction writing class a while back and I've decided to post them. Be nice, my grammar isn't the best but I think that my point gets across just fine. Remember, I'm still working on them to make them better, so any ideas or opinions would help out a ton.
Dude....Where’s my Saber?
I’m in a room full of people, it’s pack and it’s my turn to step up to the Mic. So I head up to it. On my way up, notice all eyes falling upon me, I’m at the Mic.-my turn to speak. ( I clear my throat) Hey, (hey, I hear from the background). My name is Kevin Woodson....and I....I am a Star wars fan. Yes...it’s true, I am a star wars fan and I’m not afraid to say it If only there was such a place, SWFA(Star Wars Fans Anonymous), then we fans would have support groups to deal with our problem.
Ok, I was joking but it’s true, Star Wars fans do have a problem- we all love Star Wars too much. The question I hear the most from non-fans is: “Why do you like it so much?”, Well to be honest, I can really say. I just do, its just apart of me, like my arms and legs. I’m a true fan, Star Wars bleeds from me like as if it was part of my own blood. I think that even if I tried to put my love for it into words, they would do no justices because it goes so far beyond that.
Well, I guess I could try to explain myself as best I can, so that you can at least attempt to understand why. I’ve been a fan since I was 12 and I saw the film for the first time. It was like nothing else I’d ever seen before, it was something new and fresh....and I liked it. Of course, I knew little things before hand like: who was Darth Vader and what a lightsaber was/did but not much else. That all changed on that day, after that, I was hooked and never looked back.
I must have seen the films like a million times, I know all the lines and all the events of the films by heart, like a true fan should. As I watch each film today, I-VI and also with addition of the Clone Wars shorts in order, I now noticed something strange. The man I came to fear and hate from the old films was not the same man as before. I’m talking about the dark lord himself, Darth Vader. He didn’t seem to be as evil or powerful like the many times I’d seen in the films before, he seem sad and broken-down, I never notice that before hand because there where no I-III before, just IV-VI.
It was different, my whole view had change about many of the characters I’d grow up with for all those years. Obi-Wan Kenobi didn’t seem like “a crazy old hermit” anymore but a broken man/Jedi and Darth Vader now seem so sad and empty. The story had a new feel to it and
it was great, I felt more connected to these characters. Now I say all of this for a reason, after watching all these films I knew these characters like as if they were family. I had seen them grow up and do great and/or horrible things.
As a viewer, you get to see these people as they grow and change over each film, so by the end you can feel the emotion flowing from them as the climax reaches it peak. It makes you feel what they feel: pain, joy, hate, sadness, etc. I like that, that’s just great story telling. By the end of the saga, you feel as if you where right there the whole time with all those characters on this crazy and cool adventure. That’s why us fan love it, it takes you on a long and tough journey
of redemption.
The story of Star Wars is the rise, fall and redemption of a man named Anakin Skywalker. It’s the tale of how a hero falls from grace and is then helped to be redeemed through the love of his once thought lost son, Luke. It is a great story for anyone to see, not just the SFX,
great and timeless characters or cool weapons, but the story itself. That’s way I love it, it’s a great story of a man and the forever fought battle between good vs. evil. It’s really a modern-futuristic retelling of a Greek tragedy.
Well, I hoped I helped with the whole Star Wars thing, from my “point of view” that is. It means a lot to me on so many levels and has great ideas in it from many of its great cast of characters. I hope that as long as I live, I never grow out of it and can one day past my love for it down to my own children. The greatest story of good vs evil and redemption that I know of. Well, that’s one of my many reasons why I love these films and “May the force be with you”.