i don't like movies and sorry this is late

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alright so i have not seen any three of the movies suggested to write this blog post because i dont care about them and i was originally just going to let the senioritis overcome me and take the L on this assignment, but ridaa has convinced me to do it. therefore, i will be utilizing the informational and educational resources of google and wikipedia to write this week's blog post about the parallels between siddartha and star wars. 

me looking at the prompt for this

luke skywalker is just a sad orphan living on a farm with his aunt and uncle, and siddartha is the son of a brahman who is following in his father's footsteps and is full of potential. in siddartha, the call to adventure will be classified as when siddartha, as a young man, decides to leave his family and the life of a brahman to embark on a pilgrimage to find himself and reach enlightenment. in star wars, this happens in a similar manner when luke skywalker discovers that his aunt and uncle have been killed and he must go to follow princess leia's call for help. luke's story also includes the refusal of the call, in which he initially declined obi-wan's offer to accompany him to alderaan for the mission, though this isn't exactly present in siddartha unless you count his father acting as a roadblock from the journey. after convincing his father to let him go, siddartha begins his pilgrimage with his best friend, and luke boards the millennium falcon-- both which can be considered as "crossing the threshold". siddartha follows the buddha as his mentor for the majority of the first part of the novel, as skywalker follows obi-wan's guidance. siddartha tests himself countless times as he teaches his body to separate from itself, withstand without food or water, and all-together patiently wait. skywalker's test is basically every bad guy who comes after him and his friends in the quest to help free princess leia before she is set to be executed. siddartha's journey in the second part of the novel begins when he decides to leave his spiritual life behind and go to the city where he will (allegedly) live without guidance, meeting kamala and kamaswami along the way as he rises to the top of the caste and learns about the luxuries in life. his most recent ordeal at the time of reading is when he decides to leave his life behind after twenty years and go back to his aimless meandering, coming close to death along the way and championing it with a new realization for life. when skywalker and friends arrive to the death star and try to save leia from the bad guys, getting wounded along the way and dueling with vader similar to siddartha's duel with death. and yay the good guys win and luke and han solo get medals for being strong men! 

 



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