A Short Story Revealed: A Narrative Fiction

Even at the beginning of the film it is clear that the archetypal hero’s journey is being portrayed due to various symbols, events and lines from characters which help identify the ordinary world as well as the call to adventure. Starting from Luke’s home planet of Tatooine, which is a desolate and barren desert. In literature a desert usually symbolizes dullness, hopelessness and an overall lack of excitement; a classic case of foreshadowing in that Luke has a desire to escape this empty and lifeless humdrum. Later in the film the audience is introduced to Luke Skywalker, a plain farm boy who is caught in a seemingly never ending routine. Day after day Luke spends his time performing chores and aiding

Luke is broken, but is not yet ready to give up, as he escapes one last time. Luke runs away and escapes into an old church, launching into a soliloquy asking God for guidance. God’s answer comes in the form of desertion as the police encircle the church. Luke realizes that he’s a goner no matter what, so he approaches a window and shouts the famous line “what we have here is a failure to communicate.” In return for his final act of defiance he gets a fatal shot in the throat. Remaining defiant to the end is an expected characteristic of Luke’s courageous nature.

Luke Skywalker chooses to join Obi Wan Kenobi, and through their journey Luke was changed from a parentless boy to a Jedi in training (Star Wars IV). One of the biggest parts in a Hero’s Journey is the life changing event that causes the hero to leave his home in the first place. When Luke’s aunt and uncle are killed, he is alone and has no reason to stay on his home planet of Tatooine so goes with Obi Wan. He changes his whole life around in a very short period of time, like his master, all he has left is his training. Both Romeo and Juliet changed their lives around for each other, even though it resulted in death (Shakespeare). The feuding families could never know about their children’s relationship because they hadn’t adjusted to the idea of ending their fighting and still hated each other. Romeo went first and Juliet followed behind and the death toll went up, if the families had changed their views toward each other , no one would have lost their lives. Those who are open to change, will be introduced to many life altering

Imagine a society in which the main law is the population law. In the novel “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix, the population law determines that a family may only consist of four people. But in the Garner’s house they didn’t play by the rules, instead they had a third child, Luke. He hides and lives in the attic. But when the “population police” arrive Luke hides in the basement.

Sarah even visits Luke more than his girlfriend, Melody Mercer, does. Luke realizes that he and Sarah have grown close together so when he gets out of the hospital he breaks up with Melody and asks Sarah out. One of the first nights Luke is out of the hospital, he and his father play catch to see what Luke can still do. At first it is a little hard, but he eventually gets the hang of it.

“I still couldn’t comprehend that this might be a matter of life and death, that this was the most serious thing I’d ever been involved in.”

The increase in world population, has resulted in many area’s referring back to the population law. Among the hidden, By Margaret Peterson Haddix tells a story about an illegal third named Luke. In the beginning, Luke is clueless about why he’s the only kid in his family that has to hide, he just goes by his parents orders. In the middle, Luke meets another illegal child named jen who feels differently about hiding and shows Luke the world he has been missing out on for twelve years. In the end, Luke get’s a fake I-D in the name of Lee Grant and attends private school.

Another theme in A Painted House is the theme of family. Luke has a strong and close relationship with his family and he shows it when he demonstrates how much he cares about them. One member in his family that he especially cares about is Ricky, his uncle who is fighting in Korea. Luke often worries that his brother will not come home alive and often spends times in his brother’s room, waiting for the day he arrives home safely. “What if he didn’t come home? It was the question I tortured myself with every night. I thought about him dying until I cried. I didn’t want his bed. I didn’t want his room. I wanted Ricky home, so we could run bases in the front yard and throw baseballs against the barn and fish in the St. Francis. He was really more of a big brother

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his

She had gathered about 40 other third children to come, but they had all gotten shot by government officials (p. ). Before Luke found out that Jen had died, he had snuck into her house like he usually did for their secret meetings. The alarm went off and he disabled it like Jen had taught him to. Once he got into the third children chat room that Jen had created, the front door to the house burst open and Jen’s dad stepped in. Jen’s dad, Luke later found out, worked for the population police (p. ), the people that, without prior notice, barge into people’s houses and make sure there are no illegal third children living there. He was on the third children’s side, though. He offered to get Luke a fake I.D. and send him to a boarding school for boys, and Luke accepted. I felt really sorry for Luke because he would never be able to see his family again. The people who had raised Luke would never be in his life again. Luke probably missed his mother especially, because she was the one that would always sit down with Luke in the attic and talk to him and comfort him. Also, the day he was going to the school, Luke’s mother had made him two eggs for breakfast, which she had to work 40 extra hours for in the factory (p. ).

Jen explains to Luke when he is too scared to go to the president’s house; “You can be a coward and hope someone else changes the world for you,” (Haddix 111). In this quote, Jen declares to Luke that sometimes you have to take a risk to change everything for yourself. Luke can not just let other people fight for him. He has to take action for himself. Luke ends up taking action and it works out for him. He gets to go to school and meet other children. Margaret Peterson Haddix sets an inspirational tone for this section of the story. With Jen’s powerful words and Luke’s brave actions, all readers feel inspired to take

self. Luke has to deal with the reality of his mother’s death well in prison; he receives the news through a letter. What went through Luke’s head was a mystery but whatever it was it made him want to escape the prison. He tries to escape 3 times and during the third time, Dragline joins him; he later gets shot and is taken to the prison hospital instead of the regular hospital which was much closer because it was the Captains decision. In the end it didn’t show whether he lived, but his mother’s death had caused all this. Another thing that Luke had to face was also wanted to be free. Luke is locked up in the prison with a sentence of two years; he is forced to do labour in the heat during the weekdays. Psychologically humans do not like to be confined which Luke is, because of this he also tries to escape because he wants freedom, but fails. Chief Bromden, a protagonist/narrator of the story has to deal with being lost in the fog. “It’s rolling in thicker than I ever seen it before” (Kesey 133). He is in the mental state where he thinks that the ward uses fog machines on the patients, eventually later in the story he is freed from the fog. He is only freed once he became more active in the ward and when he analyzed McMurphy. McMurphy wants to be free from the ward. “It’s interesting to me that you bums didn’t tell me what a risk I was running,twisting her tail that way. Just because I don’t like her ain’t a sign

Luke is also a very religious man. He goes to church every single Sunday. His closest and only friend is named Paul Leboeuf. Paul is also the minister at the church Luke attends. Being a religious man, Luke feels guilty about moving on and finding someone new to love because it goes against the wedding vows he made to his wife. Being a faithful and moral man is another example of how Dubus created underlying problems in the story.

Matt is responsible for cultivating her passion for biology and inspires her dream of becoming a biologist. Furthermore, besides Kate, Luke, the eldest Morrison child, due to the family’s circumstances, is forced to take on the role of “mother” for the younger children. Out of necessity he becomes the legal guardian for Kate, Bo and Matt and in order to keep them together, he gives up his own at a higher education. Luke learns how to care for the children who, despite living in the same house, never really communicated with each other, and tentatively steps up to the plate of parenthood. He cooks cleans and cares for Bo, which up until the very day their parents had died, had never even held Bo (Lawson ). These course of events, form the death of his parents to raising Bo, shaped who he was and how he turned out. Now he is living happily, perhaps even happier than anyone else because he had never really wanted to be a teacher in the first place.

Luke started to realize how wrong his father can be and decides to defy him and to play