All people need a guide. Humans as a species are guided by their parents, teachers, and our elders. They can be guided in certain directions, lead to specific paths, and guided into a way of teaching. In stories, many young heroes are guided, taught to master a skill or lead to the correct pathway. Mr. Miyagi, Uncle Ben, Gandalf, all are mentors or guides in their own ways. In just these same ways, Obi-Wan Kenobi serves as a mentor to the young Luke Skywalker, leading him in the direction of heroism, teaching him the ways of The Force, and guiding him through peril. Luke’s turmoil begins after purchasing the droids C3P0 and R2-D2 from local Jawas. The R2 unit runs off, forcing Luke to chase after, and find it. While in the deserts of Tatooine,
Their adventures in the taverns of Tatooine, filled with criminals, bandits and thieves takes Luke away from the ordinary world, away from anything and everything he’s used to. However, Luke is learning to trust Obi-Wan, and follows him into the Millennium Falcon with Han Solo and his co-pilot Chewbacca. While upon the spacecraft, as the group headed off to Alderaan, Obi-Wan began teaching Luke how to wield his new weapon, his father’s lightsaber. Obi-Wan is not deterred by his pupils struggling, and insists he cover his eyes with the blast shield of the helmet, and rely on the force to guide his movements. Once Luke complies, He is able to successfully block the
While Luke desperately wants to face off against the Imperial leader, immediately avenging his teacher, though he is not at all prepared for such a battle, the voice of Obi-Wan speaks through The Force, imploring Luke to escape to the safety of the Millennium Falcon. Once again, as Luke and his fleet of rebel ships are struggling to take out the imperial Death Star, Obi-Wan guides him again, insisting he turn off his targeting systems, and rely solely on The Force. Luke takes his advice, and is successful in blowing up the imperial
The film revolves around a man named Lucas Jackson, portrayed by the legendary actor Paul Newman, who is sentenced to two years in a small suburban jail. He is convicted for destroying public property, and being intoxicated while doing so. Before his conviction, Luke was in the Army and attained the rank of Sergeant. However, he was demoted when his service was up, and is seemingly running into trouble no matter where he goes. At the jail, the warden asks him about his carelessness and impulsive actions, to which Luke replies “…it’s something to pass the time”.
He is being forced to abide by the rules in prison and at first, does not get a warm welcome by his fellow prisoners because he refuses to abide by the captains order which is simply to get their minds right. He is soon challenged to a fight by one of his fellow inmates. Throughout the fight, it is clear that Luke is being brutally beaten. He can barely stand up on his feet but he refuses to give up. To me, this is a sign of resistance of power because he does not want to just face the fact that he lost this battle.
of Luke and in the end Han Solo helps Luke and they destroy the ‘Death
Cool Hand Luke was based on the experiences of Lucas Jackson, a war hero who returned to the United States. Lucas is sentenced to prison after he is caught drunkenly cutting the heads off of parking meters for no apparent reason. For this offense, Lucas is given a sentence of two years at a notorious Florida prison camp run by a hard-core warden. Initially, Lucas is not well liked by either the guards or inmates due to the fact that he sees himself as an independent and ignores the pecking order in the prison. The reputation of Lucas begins to change when he shows resilience in a boxing match with Dragline, the alpha male inmate. His reputation is cemented when he bluffs at poker with a losing hand, earning him the name “Cool Hand Luke”. From this point forward Luke is revered by the other inmates and looked at as a leader and role model.
Luke's disobedience, with the lack of a just cause, ultimately led to his demise when he realized that fact at the end. His desire to disobey authority for no particular reason and construction of an image initially created tension among his inmates. Gradually, inmates started to idolize him, which the wardens saw it as a threat. His multiple escape fails to cement a clear reason for his disobedience; it was not until his recapture that he starts to lose his moral. He realizes this at the very end, however it has been too late. Cool Hand Luke demonstrates to us that disobeying authority requires a moral, just cause so that one can accomplish a more fair society and be one step close of attaining happiness.
Unlike Odysseus, Luke listens to directions carefully and tries his best to save people. When Luke was trying to defeat the Death Star, he heard Obi Wan Kenobi in his mind. Obi Wan Kenobi told Luke to believe in The Force. Luke being
Both also have a sort of supernatural force helping them, giving them an advantage over ordinary people. Luke learns the ways of the "force" which about three other people have mastered: Darth Vader who is evil, Obi-Wan his mentor, and Yoda (who he does not know yet). Bruce learns the ways of advanced ancient Ninjitsu and the ways of being one with the shadows. The two of them are also both very limited in their allies fighting against a world of evil. Luke is contained to Obi-Wan, Chewbacca, Han Solo, and eventually Leah. Bruce is limited to the few uncorrupt people in his city, Alfred, Mr. Fox, Jim Gordon, and Rachel. During the ordeal, both hero's have a long line of conflict that they must deal with. Bruce has to save Rachel, escape his on fire mansion, fight Ra's al Ghul, and then stop the city from going crazy from the gas. Luke must save Leia, escape a trash compacter, watch Obi-Wan die, escape Darth Vader's station, and finally come back to destroy it. A last similarity is that both hero's rewards made them realize what they were actually destined for. Luke
The “Star Wars” franchise is familiar to most, and may be the easiest in which to discover the hero’s journey. In “Star Wars,” we find young Luke Skywalker, a rebellious youth, living on a farm on the isolated planet of Tatooine, taken in by his aunt and uncle following the death of his mother and father. Luke grows up with dreams of flying through the stars, only dreams until his chance meeting with Ben Kenobi. Kenobi informs Luke of his real past: that his father was a Jedi knight and that Luke was destined to become great. Though Kenobi’s guidance and Luke own adventurous spirit, he finds himself pushed into an intergalactic quest to become a valiant Jedi in a galaxy controlled by the evil Empire.
Though Dragline had the physical advantage, Luke persevered through the beatings and had even said that he would have to be killed to be stopped. Moreover, Dragline is unable to defeat Luke and he is not allowed to kill him either. Coincidentally, Dragline leaves the ring in defeat, thus showing the whole prison that Luke has the superior authority and influence and therefore becoming the new leader (Pierson et al., 1997). Luke attempts to show that if you endure the challenges of petty authority and power [representation of Dragline], you will come out victorious and that you don’t need anything more than ‘nothing’. One of the most crucial lines of the film, spoken by the Captain, was, “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate’ (Pierson et al., 1997), and was said on behalf of the non-conformity Luke had portrayed by escaping prison.
A strong parallel exists between the two storytellers Plato and Luke in that they are both biased to a great degree. While they both teach a wonderful perspective they teach solely their perspective with no room for any other. Luke asserts that when Jesus died “the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two,” (Luke 23:44) thus giving divine testimony that Jesus is indeed the son of the Almighty. Whenever Jesus is questioned the people who do so are inevitably wrong, there points being made to look stupid as Jesus transcends the question with a new concept. For example, in Luke 20:34-40 Jesus is asked about a wife who has been widowed and remarried several times and to who she should be married in heaven. This is a difficult question in Jewish tradition where the concept of the resurrection is that of a physical rebirth and the continuation of life on earth. However, Jesus comes up with an new and controversial idea of an immortal soul. He uses the rational that since God only spoke to the living in the Torah, he only deals with the living; so since God still represents you after death, you must still be alive after you die. This is a questionable argument at best however the obvious leaps of logic here are never examined because the questioning scribes “no longer dared to ask him another question.” (Luke 20:40) This obviously must be because Jesus is the Son of God who speaks with divine and unquestionable authority, or so Luke seems to imply. In much the same way,...
Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker is pulled into the dark side of the Force and Palpatine appoints him to become Darth Sidious's new apprentice Darth Vader. The Jedi are all but eliminated with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Master Yoda forced into
Luke was a Roman catholic before he converted over to Christianity. Luke was an eyewitness of the ministry, teaching, and life of Jesus. He made it his mission to teach the knowledge of Jesus and spread the religion Christianity. He wanted to reach the people in his communities and beyond. The Evangelist Luke wanted to tell the goods news that Jesus would return for his people. Luke’s concern was whether or not Christians could be good citizens of the Roman Empire, seeing that Jesus their founder had been killed for being a “political criminal”. Many people would have preceded them as revolutionaries (“From Jesus to Christ”). Christianity became a dominant way of life and worship in Europe many years after Luke wrote his gospel. In Medieval Europe, Luke’s gospel had greatly influenced the creators of many arts and dramas such as the Everyman play. Luke’s gospel opened many doors to help spread Christianity in Medieval Europe.
The constant theme throughout this movie is the battle between good and evil, right and wrong, and light and dark. Anakin Skywalker is the main protagonist throughout this film. There is an internal fight going on within him concerning what side of the force he should follow. The light side means he would have to allow Padme, his wife, to die. The dark side would allow him to save her or at least have the fear of losing her. He slowly starts to turn to the dark side with guidance from Darth Sidious (Chancellor Palpatine). Anakin believes he is doing the right thing which in turn will save Padme from dying in childbirth.
Luke was very educated for his time and we can tell this by how he wrote the Gospel of Luke. The Gospel of Luke gives us the story of Jesus life, the man he was and how he gave the perfect sacrifice for sin. Jesus became the savior for mankind and in the Gospel of Luke it explains the sacrifices Jesus made for mankind (Fairchild M. 2014). Luke was very close...
Because he was converted as a Christian, St. Luke was able to preach and teach about Jesus until his tragic martyrdom. St. Luke is an admirable saint because he was loyal by being faithful to St. Paul and God, intelligent because he wrote two important books of the Bible, and loving by loving God with all of his heart. As an intelligent and benign man, St. Luke was able to convert many people as Christians. St. Luke proclaims, "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my